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davelondon
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I'm designing an expedition truck which will have solar panels attached to the roof. However I would also like to store in the truck some additional solar panels that can be manually placed on the ground around the truck to get more power. I'd like these panels to be approx 2m x 1m each.
I've seen lightweight (~5kg per square meter) flexible panels but these seem to be far less efficient (under 100 watts per square meter) than the heavy (~15kg per square meter) rigid panels (over 200 watts per square meter).
Do more efficient but lightweight panels exist? If they need to be rigid, I'm thinking about mounting them on foam cored carbon fibre panels, which are only 2.7kg per square meter. Perhaps the solar panels can be removed from a standard panel and re-mounted onto a lighter frame material?
I've seen lightweight (~5kg per square meter) flexible panels but these seem to be far less efficient (under 100 watts per square meter) than the heavy (~15kg per square meter) rigid panels (over 200 watts per square meter).
Do more efficient but lightweight panels exist? If they need to be rigid, I'm thinking about mounting them on foam cored carbon fibre panels, which are only 2.7kg per square meter. Perhaps the solar panels can be removed from a standard panel and re-mounted onto a lighter frame material?