RAT Ram Air Turbine for camping with the CT

[BillyGee]

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[BillyGee]

You may as well get a portable solar panel or portable wind turbine for camping. Size an array out right and you could just plug the car in.

 

[SwampNut]

I'm worried about my portable refrigerator and other devices running the batteries down on the CT.

You can stop worrying, the math is easy on this. Watts consumed per hour, and how many watt-hours in the battery. We're expecting the CT to have well over 100kWH, and your portable fridge typically uses around 30-ish watts while running. Most of them run about 20-30% of the time, depending on weather and how often you open it. That's about 200 watt-hours out of 100k+ watt-hours.

 

[Galactus55]

What basically I am proposing is with the proper location of the air intake.

That you could store more miles in the batteries than you would loose from the aerodynamic resistance of the air intake and the turbine generator. In fact on a windy day and the vehicle in the right position you could gain miles while parked. I'm not trying to make perpetual motion truck just trying to have a charged backup battery.

Would need a wind tunnel and time to tweek the system or prove you right.

 

[FutureBoy]

What basically I am proposing is with the proper location of the air intake.

That you could store more miles in the batteries than you would loose from the aerodynamic resistance of the air intake and the turbine generator. In fact on a windy day and the vehicle in the right position you could gain miles while parked. I'm not trying to make perpetual motion truck just trying to have a charged backup battery.

Would need a wind tunnel and time to tweek the system or prove you right.

Bye, bye frunk!

Not sure where you think the air going into that intake would go. If air is going in, there better be somewhere for the air to get back out. Otherwise, your CT is going to turn into a pressure vessel. Hope you don't pop.

 

[BillyGee]

Jesus people, it's a truck not a perpetual energy machine.

 

[John K]

if you drive into the wind, you can generate more energy, if the wind is stong enough, to overcome the drag loss in energy.

Penalized when driving with the wind.

 

[Zabhawkin]

Sorry no like people keep saying you will loose more range than you generate,

Those little wind turbines operate at a relatively high speed and you sacrifice some of your glide slope to have power for at least the essentials when all of the engines fail so that you can at least make a relatively controlled attempt at a landing instead of an outright crash. The ones I worked on in the past the batteries were enough to get you to the ground.

The solution I am going with is a generator in the bed if I think I will be risking it too much.

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