For those following my work, thank you and sorry for the long wait for an update! I am currently writing up my doctorate so as you can imagine I have been a social hermit recently!
Nevertheless, I have now had a journal paper published which may be of interest to those fellow electronics geeks out there and as a bonus it is open access so no charge to view it!
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319915308065
The paper focuses around balancing a hydrogen fuel cell with a battery with ideal diodes. These give a tremendous efficiency advantage over traditional diodes. The powertrain exploits the ability that a fuel cell has to operate at different voltages in order to create a potential long endurance system which still has all the power of a battery at an instant when needed.
Once again, thank you for your interest and I will do my best to answer any questions you have! The paper is a creative commons license so feel free to use it and build upon it, giving credit for the original work where due!
You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!
Comments
oh, that one is spec'd for 1.8kW ish (i.e. designed for a max of a 4 cell with a 100A ESC). It is very scalable however, just add more MOSFETs to handle larger loads..
Thanks gents. If you're interested what it looks like here is a photo of the working prototype. It is the same size as the raspberry pi and stacked on top of it. Original concept was to fly it with a fuel cell inside a Skywalker X8...may still happen if this storm dies down!
Very nice! Awesome stuff!
Thanks for sharing.
great article.
Thanks Simon.
-
1
-
2
of 2 Next