Prototype Development #4: Arrival of the actual prototype

Crystalline solar cell used to power the prototype.	Close-up of our mini fountain!
Can you spot our school logo?	Our prototype is protected by an acrylic case.

Light Intensity Testing: Raw Data & Plotting of Results

Team members: please comment on the above results and your experience on measuring the sunlight intensity during different times of the day.

Prototype Development #3: Scale Model

Prototype Development #2: Research & Ideation

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Prototype Development #1: Site Survey

A site survey was conducted to develop the prototype. Measurements were taken to come up with a scale model.

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