Solar deck

[drmacgyver]

Think we'll ever be able to integrate solar cells into an e-board deck, or are they too fragile? I'm also curious if the surface area of a standard deck would even be large enough to charge, ie: a 6s10ah battery. If not, maybe additional cells could be folded under the deck. If it's not large enough to charge the board's battery, maybe it could be used to charge our transmitters. Never have to worry about your transmitter dying on a long run.

 

[made_in_the_alps_legacy]

U can assume 500W/m2 from thé sun, converted by a 20% efficient solar panel: ending around 100wp of electric power per square meter,
Should land around 25h of sunny resting time for a 1 square meter deck to charge a 6s 10ah

If your deck is a third of a square meter ... then u might pray for the sun to shine 75h before you can ride with 6s 10ah

 

[torqueboards]

Where would the grip tape go

Guess we're not there yet with Solar. We can always just have usb ports connected to our packs.

 

[drmacgyver]

25hr charge time still leaves you... 23hrs the next day to ride! I didn't think this was doable, but worth a shot. Shame though. I imagined there would be a couple patches of grip where your feet would go. Just don't let your feet wander. lol. If it were to work at all, the cells would have to go under the board I guess.

I think an integrated transmitter charger (either solar or otherwise) is doable. I think that would be a nifty feature. I'll post it in the "wish list" thread.

 

[makepeace]

Cells under the board would be pretty useless lol. Unless you develop a new type of sun that shines out of the road.

I think that it could work. I thought about incorporating this and/or piezo transducers in the board. It's not going to charge the board in any practical amount of time, but coupled with some improved regen. braking, it would extend run time by a bit. Although you'd probably get max 10% extra battery life with all of that said, which probably doesn't justify the costs/hassle. Just use a bigger battery.

 

[Hummina Shadeeba]

U can assume 500W/m2 from thé sun, converted by a 20% efficient solar panel: ending around 100wp of electric power per square meter,
Should land around 25h of sunny resting time for a 1 square meter deck to charge a 6s 10ah

If your deck is a third of a square meter ... then u might pray for the sun to shine 75h before you can ride with 6s 10ah

20% efficiency seems better than i can find but heres a list of flexible panels

Great website
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Thin_Film_Solar

And the biggie main page
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

 

[drmacgyver]

Cells under the board would be pretty useless lol. Unless you develop a new type of sun that shines out of the road.

I was thinking I could just propose to my city gov't to have the sidewalks plated with mirrors. lol. But seriously, if the cells we're under the board, you'd just flip it over when it needed to be charged. Unfortunately solar cells aren't for us (yet...?) Piezo's are super cool though, not for board charging, just in general. There's an instructables to make a phone charger with piezos in your shoe, so when you walk it charges.

 

[made_in_the_alps_legacy]

you are right Hummina Shadeeba, 20% is very unlikely on commercial panel...
I believe there would be more chances to see an e-bike solar trailer than a solar e-board...