This week the upper management team finalized the roster and got the sub-teams in order; finally time to get our hands dirty with the project! The Solar team has been busy doing preliminary research and brainstorming concepts for improving power collection for the system. As for myself, I did some basic shopping around to see if there was anything available that would fit the bill for large scale modular mounting system for our solar panels; what I found was that most readily available shims have parallel surfaces on either side. Maybe further research will stumble upon some slanted shims that I've envisioned for this purpose, but maybe as a team we will come up with a better system for mounting panels before then.
For now, Ron Swenson would like us to mount some recently acquired thin film, flexible solar cells on the full scale track at the SSDC. We need to accomplish this by 10/1/15. Ivan detailed our mounting idea in his blog and we will be getting materials and trying to implement it in our weekly meeting at the SSDC this Wednesday.
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