Morgansolar.com Updates
February 20th, 2009 by Nic Morgan
We hadn’t updated the site in a while, and there were some changes that were overdue. We’ve updated the product photos, descriptions and a few small details about the LSO. Most of these changes were to account for the transition from the triangle LSO design to the square LSO design.
This change allowed us to reduce dead space on the panels (the edges of the optic have a small moulding flange, but it added up) and makes assembly and manufacture easier. It also allowed us to use less aluminum per panel, so in general, it was a big improvement over the previous design. We had always planned to transition to this design, but there were some technical challenges we needed to solve first. When a supplier delay in September forced us to wait a couple of months, we used the time to tackle the challenges and migrated to the current design ahead of schedule.
The new Sun Simba HCPV based on the square LSO design looks like this:
And the product section has been updated to reflect the design changes.
We’re getting very close to having working prototypes of our other products, and we already have working prototypes of the Simba, so things are fairly exciting around here. There are some more photos on our Flickr page.
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9 Responses to “Morgansolar.com Updates”
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tOM Trottier Says:
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:07 pmWhy square? Why not hexagonal? Fewer stresses, stronger structure when flat if connected/glued.
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Nic Morgan Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 amWe did look at it briefly. It’s slightly easier (and maybe slightly less expensive) to align and mount rectangular modules on a tracker and if we make rectangular modules out of hexagonal optics, then we introduce dead space at the edges of each module. Basically, the advantages either way were nearly equal.
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Adam Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 3:04 pmIs this technology adapatable for hot water sytems?
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Laszlo Nyagai Says:
March 10th, 2009 at 6:07 pmHello Mr MORGAN Nic.,
I like to ask you, the rectangular modules what the size, and what the collecting energy size.
The price need more time to develop all
nessesery structure.
Thank you answer.
Regards Laszlo Nyagai -
Nic Morgan Says:
March 13th, 2009 at 2:01 pmAdam - No, it’s really not, for two reasons: The material we use, PMMA blocks Infrared radiation, meaning that this system wouldn’t efficiently capture or concentrate heat (there would be some heat of course, but other systems would be better). Also, these systems need sun trackers, so they’re going to be primarily installed on solar farms, not rooftops. Solar farm hot water doesn’t usually make sense, because you’re pumping hot water to some other location.
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Laszlo Nyagai Says:
May 15th, 2009 at 11:46 pmMr MORGAN Nic.
ZTJ Space Solar Cell we like get and build solar panels with your system.We like build power plan 9-10 MWH, FARM
Also we like to install all roof with yours system. You interest please contact with us. Regards Laszlo Nyagai -
Brent Says:
July 1st, 2009 at 1:56 amCan the LSO be made of a different material that would enable it to also concentrate heat for solar thermal applications? If so, would you be willing to supply these modified LSOs to an OEM for their solar thermal application?
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Weilli Says:
January 11th, 2010 at 8:07 amDear Morgan:
May you please offer the data of the change of the spectrum of the concentrating output to the solar cells?
And how optically efficient the LSO collect the sun-light? does your mention of 1400-suns mean geometric concentration?
Please contact for your convenience. We are interesting with it very much, thank you! -
Nic Morgan Says:
January 13th, 2010 at 12:46 am@ Weilli - We recommend that you contact us directly for further details as these questions are highly specific and technical and not really something best discussed in the comments of a blog.