Over the past couple of years I have been working on adapting the technology to industrial production. What became immediately clear is that what makes sense to do in a DIY setting may not make any sense for factory production and even less for export.
In particularly, how to export the machine without needing to send a technician to set it up was a fairly intractable problem, as previous method relied on the precision attainable by hand-eye adjustments (good DIY strategy but bad export strategy).
I now have the solution. By modeling precisely the machine in the computer, I can place all the mirrors correctly (represented by the blocks below).
Since this only makes sense on the industrial scale, I’ll be selling licenses to produce these drawings either non-exclusive, or perhaps exclusive on a country or region basis, depending on the interest.
The actual design however would have plastic (or wood) backings to the mirrors to hold them in place and bend them for higher concentration.
We then extract the profile of the row for CNC laser cutting.
The cost is extremely low as laser cutting in India can be as low as 60 Rupees per meter, the materials just basic steel or aluminum and the machine can be self installed with correct precision.
If interested in producing with this methodology, contact Eerik Wissenz at wissenz@gmail.com.
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