Objective
To equip small tourist airports with runway border lights for visual navigation at night or during bad weather conditions.
The system continues to work satisfactorily. The success is evidenced by the very high reliability of the system. The system is pantented under the number 48289 A/90. It has been demonstrated, that it is possible to implement with pv-systems at reasonable costs fixed and/or transportable and reliable runway lights for airports.
About sixtysix 50 Watt floodlight lamps mark both borders of the runway of the small airport LUCCA. In order to avoid costly and unreliable cabling, each one of the lamps, distant about 60 meters from each other, is supplied by its own pv power source (battery, control, telecommunication electronics included). The lamps can be turned on and off and intensity regulated (five steps) by remote radio control (CTC) in the VHF band with FSK modulation from the aircraft or the tower. The CTC contains a data processor, and exists twice (for reliability reasons) for each lamp unit (containing a spare bulb.
Other features : Speed of installation, flexibility, modularity, military use.
Nr. of subsystems : 66
Power of subsystems : 0.05 kWp
Total power : 3.3 kW
Backup : none
Number of modules : 2 x 66 = 132
Module desscription : ITALSOLAR (PRAGMA), 48 Wp, Type 36MS/A2,
Connection : two parallel
Support : two modules, foldable for transport, to be locked on the ground almost vertically (75 deg from horizontal). Hermetic container for battery and electronics.
Max. power tracker : none
Charge controller : existing
Battery : MAGNETI MARELLI, tight, service free
Batt. (V) : 12
Capacity (Ah) : 105
Inverter : none
Load description : lamps and electronics (12 V)
Monitoring : data from each lamp unit are transmitted by radio to a central logger system, which also records irradiance and temperature on floppy disks.
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00048 Nettuno
Italy
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