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For those of you wondering about everything else on the trailer other than the solar panel, here's what I can pick up as someone who works in an industry with this sort of stuff:
On the left pole closest to him are three small fixed cameras which are just used for general monitoring of the area around the trailer, and the thumbnail shows a PTZ camera (mounted upside down) on the top of that pole. The rounded enclosure on the other pole is a point-to-point communication antenna, which would be pointed back at wherever their local broadcast 'HQ' is located (with hardline internet connectivity), while the square enclosure on that pole probably contains one or more LTE antennas. The black dome on the right side is an Axis Q63 PTZ camera, also mounted upside down. All the boxes underneath the solar panel contain everything else needed to make the trailer work, such as the battery bank, charge controller, power supplies and inverters, network switch, etc.
As I shared on another video, the panels should be split to east-west for your systems. You’ll have a wider time wise charging session, which is what we need in off-grid systems.
He likes to keep his eyes, he's weird like that.
You seem to be power constrained Instead micromanaging the angle to get a marginally increase at noon, you could add one bidirectional panel that is facing east and west, which will give your batteries/inverter more power earlier and later in the day.
Das is so cool lol
Wheres the old van?
Great explainer for the solar panels and shadows. I TOTALLY get the whole PPE thing. When I worked construction in Florida, I wore white T-Shirts while the rest of the crew walked around shirtless, cooking their skin. I also wore tinted safety glasses you could get for free off the nail truck. They laughed, called me "Ray Charles", but I DGAF.
Das, I love this video I do… But can I just say, we miss the heck out of you on the streams. You, Chris and Jack have such a chemistry that brings NSF over the top. Not saying that the others on the team are amazing, it's just that it feels like we're moving into a new era. I miss the old days :(.
Das is excelent!
Hi Daniel! Welcome to the camera side of NSF. 🙂
⬇️ Times Das said "angle"
Would love to know about the cameras and radios etc on the trailer
Came for a trailer update, stayed for the solar panel adjustment. Very much pleased!
Dude! I hear you like sun glasses.. So I put sun glasses on your sun glasses (hat)…
100% need more of these videos!
You could have just placed the end of that on top of the panels. It would have been easier to get an accurate measurement. Instead of holding it on the side of the panels.
Funny video. Thank you Das!
Glad to see you, Das. Miss you on the commentaries.
Nice video filled with some interesting facts about the solar panel orientation and some fun! Thank you!
"You could use a square". You have a square in your hands! The squeegee-blade is at a 90° to the handle in your hand.
Next time you want to check your panel angle… take a beer can or soda can along. Hold it right on the face of a panel. Check the shadow it casts there, as opposed to something held up on the side of the panel. 🙂
Thank you Das🚀🤓 Spacex 🤓 I'm going for pizza also.
“Your eyes can deceive you; don’t trust them.” -Obiwan Kenobi
Could you use a linear actuator that has a sun angle controller setting the angle?
Awesome, thanks for this video content! Love this!!!
I’m surprised you don’t have the solar panels rigged up to auto track the sun for maximum efficiency.
The less heat hitting the panel the better, angle 30°-50° is optimal to avoid direct sunlight to avoid the heat
Wait. Das is 44?!?!
Nice use of vocabulary. Seems there is a "square" on the end of that wiper, but why not "eyeball" it.
That’s a nice rig bro.
Do you have a deep cycle truck battery in the trailer to skim off excess load into storage. A 24v gel battery.
Here's the Aussie way… At mid day place a BEER can on the panel. Adjust the panel until the shadow is directly over the can, ie NO SHADOW. Then drink the beer. Job done.
Why not… ask SpaceX and team to help engineer something super cool to help with tracking the 🌞???
Sunglasses are good for you. Thanks for the solarpanel explanation. 😅
Nice video. You have that slotted rail under the solar panel. Why not attach a flat panel with a vertical rod/pipe in the center. Then you can just walk up and look at the shadow. Like a sundial. … Maybe even make marks for the months 😀
Love the behind the scenes 🚀
Can we get a full hardware breakdown of the equipment for those of us addicted to hardware porn?