Week 4 - Bracket, Clamp Design

This week I designed a clamp in SolidWorks for the support structure for The Futran System in South Africa and a bracket as seen here: Click Here I wanted to reduce cost and allow for them to be easily moveable if desired. A simple solar panel structure was also added to be able to set the brackets in place. These designs will be modified depending on the new structure. In addition, I spent some more time on sizing systems in SAM, PVsyst, and PVsol. However, without any real inputs from the pod system of Futran Inc. in South Africa. More will be done in the next couple of weeks. An Engineer from Futran came from South Africa to give us guidance on further designing the structure to meet engineering standards. They currently do not have a Solar System design, this is where we come in to help.

Figure 1. First design clamp.

Figure 2. Second design bracket.