RC Solar Boat With E.M.P. Drive.

Description

One’s a year we have a solar boat race here in luxemburg. I think I will participate this year with this construction.

I’m building a RC solar boat with a new concept of drive. A dc motor driven by a 10W solar cell, takes a continius hight current, and when the sun disappears behind the clouds, it will be difficult to get enough electricity.

So I decided to use another drive. Somthing like a pump with 2 coils, where I can move a piston. When the voltage drops, I still have the possibility to move the boat forward with smaller pulses and less frequency, which gives me an advantage over my competitors.

I think this concept will have an advantage over the normal dc motor drive.

It’s just a therorie but it’s been buzzing around in my head for some time

Project Logs

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Coil-O-Mat Software Is Ready
Alain Mauer • 07/24/2018 at 12:14 • 0 comments

Just finished the Software for my Coil winding machine. I used my Arduino Nano QP .
It was perfect for this project.
The source code can be found on my github.
Coil-O-Mat
Alain Mauer • 04/12/2018 at 12:12 • 0 comments

Now, I have the Magnets, let us wrap the coils. I will use painted copper wire with a diameter of 0.09mm.

Both of the coils should have 40 Ohm at the end, which makes a lot of wrapping.
So I decided to build me this Coil-O-Mat to make me this task easyer

Hopefully I will finished this quickly, so I can start to do the first tests with the e.m.p.
First Piston Prototype
Alain Mauer • 04/08/2018 at 17:56 • 0 comments

Today I found a few moments to prepare the parts for my first piston prototype.

They are laser-cut and it seems that the results looks like my cad design.

A Neodymium magnet, 3mm of diameter and 10mm length fits in the middle of this design.

And the hole thing fits in the tube and moves.
Starting the EMP drive build
Alain Mauer • 04/07/2018 at 16:01 • 0 comments

I use one of these plexiglas tubes
Then I laserd 4 Water inlets in the tube
Next step will be the piston ... stay tuned
10 Watt Solarpanel
Alain Mauer • 04/05/2018 at 21:30 • 0 comments

The 10 Watt solar panel is now ready for the first tests, if the sun shows up this weekend :)

And here comes the sun 22,42V with no load.