PROJECT OBJECTIVE #1

A collaboration between Woodgrove Secondary School Science Department, Craft & Technology; and Temasek Polytechnic to design and construct a solar-powered water fountain

PROJECT OBJECTIVE #2

Creation of a learning corner for the teaching and learning of solar energy

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Delivery & Testing of Solar Water Fountain System


Jie Lun helping to arrange the tiles on the muddy ground Mr. Teo and Mr. Tai checking on the water pump underneath the "Ming Dynasty" vase.


Look how dirty our fountain is! Algae were at the filter inlet and at the base of the fountain. We ought to do some cleaning! Mr. Teo and Mr. Tai having a discussion


Amorphous silicon used as our photovoltaic cell. Our stand-alone PV system: the box at the bottom is for the storage of battery.



Charge controller for the solar system
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10 comments:

  1. DouglasJune 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    Douglas says :

    The "Ming Dynasty" vase was very ancient and diiiiirrty~

    The Solar module QUITE cool
    It's made of amorphous(wth?) and therefore it's more durable.

    (not easy to break + lasts longer)

    Glass ones would be nicer. Definitely.

    Mr. Teo appears to be professional and experienced.

    We learnt a bit of solar panels' history.
    Eg. the year it was first use; when did it become popular.

    The pump looks kinda weak and small.
    Not as good as it looks.
    Disappointed~~ a bit only


    Nothing else to say. Really.

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  2. Siti RauzanahJune 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM

    Rauzanah says :

    Mr Teo gave an introduction about how to use the solar control .
    It was easy to understand.
    He also told us about the history of how people use the solar panels on satellites .
    There were some problems which i did not understand regarding the pump .
    Uncle Hock came to help and say they had to clean up the fountain .
    It later rained and all of us has to go into the shelter .
    Overall, it was quite alright .

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  3. JieLunJune 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM

    Jie Lun says :
    Great ! Just completed solar fountain training. Mr Teo , our 'emcee' for today session , taught us how to handle the control panel. The weather was just nice to test the solar fountain but we just couldn't stand the heat. After our lunch , it started raining. I wondered how the weather was made this days. We were asked to carry 16 stone bricks from the spice garden to place it around the solar panels. Afterwards , we just listen patiently to our 'emcee' and that's how we end :D

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  4. Ying YingJune 24, 2009 at 3:26 PM

    Ying Ying:
    Today,24/6/2009,
    we learnt and tried out our solar fountain, with the help of Mr Teo. I learnt a lot of things, such as how to maintain the Solar fountain and how to operate it.
    Do you know? We need to clean the solar fountain at least once a month. Also, the energy that the solar panel received and converted can be used for two purposes, one, to supply energy for the fountain, two, to charge the batteries.
    There are a lot of switches on the Solar Control Panel. With those switches, you can switch the energy into charging the battery or to supply energy to the fountain or both.
    I also learnt that if you covered half the Solar panel and if you don't cover the panel, the height of the water will be changed.
    Basically, it has been very fun learning how to operate the Fountain and that the only blemish is that the weather is not nice as it has been raining.

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  5. IrfaanJune 24, 2009 at 3:35 PM

    Leon said : We did a simple briefing on the solar panel.

    We got to try out the panel and did some experiment.
    We also help setting up the pump and from there we slowly pick something up.
    We have to mantain the pump by cleaning it every once a month and also help clean the solar panel .

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  6. IrfaanJune 24, 2009 at 3:41 PM

    Irfaan Said:
    Hmm.. Its a bit hard to say this but, its a long day for me.
    Came late. Dont know that today is the day. Went to town but got to know its today.
    Went back home and went to school.
    Carried the heavy rock tiles.
    Pushed Xin Quan together with 8 RoCK TILES!! Its heavy..
    Saw the so called "Fountain Of Life" and there were so many algae in it.
    It drizzled a bit.
    Learned quite a bit. Do not play with dirty water.

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  7. [[ja$m|n3]]June 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM

    Xin quan says:
    It was really a WET experience as it was actually drizzling. Mr. Teo seems to be very experience in the application, and while all the wires within the application looks really really complicated to us, Mr. Teo told me that it wasn't that difficult and he handle the application as if he was very very similar with it. The problem we face is that we have to move the concrete slabs from the spices garden to the fountain, and what really irk us is that when we move the concrete slabs from the spices garden, ants and bugs all just appear from underneath and it was really very revolting. Moving the concrete slabs to the fountain area was also anotherm difficulties that we face, although we have a trolly we us, moving the concrete slabs to the fountain area was still very difficult as it was really heavy and the ground was uneven.

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  8. [[ja$m|n3]]June 24, 2009 at 3:56 PM

    Jasmine Chen commented:
    The weather was bad for the setting up of the solar fountain. It started raining heavily, halfway through the programme. The solar set-up was really interesting. We managed to absorbed a lot of knowledge from Mr. Teo. He even taught us how the set-up work and the hitory of the solar cells. it was invented 150 years ago! It was not widely use as it is normally use for spacecraft, genius and scientist but it is easily available that we can handle it ourselves.

    It was really amazing how the solar cell work. the energy converted from the solar is directly proportional to the height of the fountain. it also helped to save electricity. how i hope everything could be powered by solar energy since we have unlimited sunlight supply(:

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  9. IrfaanJune 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM

    Harith said:

    Today is the day,where me and my solar friends get to see the real solar water fountain system. It is quit big.
    Me and my friends get to try out the system and it is very fun. We got to know what is the system use for as well as its functions. I got to know the advantages about using the solar system.

    1- it is long lasting
    2- fountain able to be generated by using either solar power or batter.

    Overall, i am confident that the solar powered fountains will be a successful one..

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  10. UnknownMarch 7, 2013 at 1:00 AM

    I was looking for information on solar fountains for the garden and I came across this blog. Thanks so much for the info! I had no idea you could do that!

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