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Version 2 lily misprint but some good news

A project log for Lily Power Pods, TEG + Concentrated Solar

Thermal Electric Generator from concentrated solar, designed to float in water, small scale power anywhere in the world.

josh-starnesJosh Starnes 07/10/2018 at 02:060 Comments

the second version of the lily was a misprint totally my fault. I moved the print head when changing filament and I should not have unlocked the stepper motors. Sigh.. anyways it did get far enough along that I could verify the center is 100 times stronger than the first version. The first version was a piece of a model I found on thingiverse but has been scrapped, the new model has three times the petals and mimicking a dish shape to reflect heat at the center collector. My fiancé even volunteered to help paint it a pretty purple like a living wild lily shown in the pictures on the page profile.

This is the new center, the heat collector will come up through the center of this and be all metal with flat black coating, there will be a silicon barrier separating the metal and plastic from touching and also a radiant barrier as well.

You can see in comparison to version one center and petals version two is beefy, but still looks like a flower.

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