Oh, I’m sure they exist (though even up here no one seems to have any of that stuff, as I suspect it just adds more breakables). I just don’t necessarily trust 'em. Even so, well, that stuff if done right has to cost money, though maybe they are going for the Tesla crowd so it doesn’t matter.
In Florida it would certainly fly. Off of the roof and far away.
The guy measuring for solar panels at my house was telling me that in the other states he’s done installs on flat roofs by using concrete block ballast on flat mounts, but in Florida… And he laughed. So for the company he works for they do not install on flat roofs in Florida (roof penetrations are no bueno on a flat roof so they can’t just screw them down).
We’re number one! :P
Even with the mounts that screw down to your roof they’re only up to category 4 protection (I think it was 140 mph winds?) And I was thinking, well shit, hope we don’t get a Cat 5.
To be fair, with a Cat 5, the roof goes too.
Yeah and I’ve attached little “solar sails” to my roof I guess to make that even more likely. :/
Is the goal to send your roof into interstellar space to do some measurements?
No but if they angle just right I’m pretty sure they will produce way more power from space than when staying on my house.
But you’ll have to attach space batteries first. Then make sure that when the roof does launch, it has steering jets to align it with the sun. I dunno, @arrendek, you’re not considering the extra cost here. I’ll bet an Arduino processor could do the alignment. But your light sensors should be separate from the photocells. A lot of work, but amazing if you could get it to work.
Have you considered placing a Falcon Heavy in your attic space? Just thinking.
The project has been cancelled due to budget overruns.
Latest is that there is built-in warmer/deicer functionality on the antenna.
Nice. I can’t wait to try it out.
Maybe the dish should be placed in the middle of a half dome?
What do you mean?
I meant a radome, sorry. For protection against the weather.
