measuring of the sunlight intensity

	Due to the rain, Harith is standing in the shelter to measure the sunlight intensity.	The fountain that we are working on.
Side view of the fountain	Jasmine Chen checking if the bubble in the tripod is in the centre.	Harith using the solar meter to measure the intensity of sunlight.
Harith is trying to adjust the angle for the board to be tilted.	Xin Quan and Harith adjusting the stand, before the start of the test.	Irfaan and Jasmine Soo calibrating the solar meter for measurement.
The bubble should be in the centre of the green liquid. It is to check if the stand is horizontally stable.	The clinometer is used to measure test what angle of elevation absorbs the most amount of sunlight intensity.	The direction is pointing North.

it has been a week since the training we last had.
now, we had completed the test on the light intensity.
but we had not plot the graph.
i guess we will be doing it this coming week.
it is hard for us to take the readings as the weather has not been good enough.
it started raining since the first day of our project which is 24th March.
the problems we faced during this activity:
on the first day, the battery of the camera could not sustain till the end
secondly, on the second day the red board came off the stand
we could not find replacements for our activity as most of us have busy schedules (e.g NAPFA test)

Calculations for Photovoltaic Modules

Calculations by Jasmine Soo (4E1) with the guidance of
Mr Cheah Swee Hock, Deputy Director and
Mr Chong Beng Leng Fred, Section Head
of Department of Clean Energy,
Temasek Polytechnic Engineering School

training conducted by TP lecturers

Due to our busy schedules, only four out of the original nine of us attended the training.

The training enabled us to understand more briefly of what solar cells, solar energy and technology was about.

We learnt basic concepts of how solar cells worked and simple applications that used solar cells(e.g calculator, watches). Formulae were also taught and we had to apply them into our calculations to figure out the number of batteries used, etc..

Overall, we found the training meaningful as it was not taught in our daily lessons. Leon was the only Secondary 3 student who attended today. I bet there was a lot of things that he did not understand.. the look on his face shows it all (: