SunZilla - Guide 3: Solar box

This is the third tutorial for building the Pop-up Solar Generator: SunZilla 3.0. Here we are going to build the solar box.

Difficulty

Medium Medium

Duration

2 hour(s) hour(s)

Categories

Energy

Cost

200 EUR (€)

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Introduction

In the case of the solar box, the inner structure is constructed using square aluminium profiles.

Having already drilled holes in the prepared square aluminum profiles as specified in the "mounting system" technical drawing PDFs (see step 3), this step is about assembling them to form the inner structure of the solar box.

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Materials

• 4 x Squared aluminium profiles, 732 (l) x 25 (w) x 2 (th)
• 2 x Squared aluminium profiles, 200 (l) x 20 (w) x 2 (th)
• 2 x Squared aluminium profiles, 515 (l) x 20 (w) x 2 (th)
• 3 x Squared aluminium profiles, 560 (l) x 15 (w) x 2 (th)
• 4 x Squared aluminium profiles, 370 (l) x 15 (w) x 2 (th)
• 14 x Hexagonal bolts, M6 x 50 (l)
• 14 x Self-locking nuts, M6
• 28 x Washers, M6
• 4 x (Wing) bolts, M6 x 40 (l)
• 8 x Wing nuts, M6
• 4 x (Wing) bolts, M6 x 30 (l)

Tools

The positions can be seen in the following technical drawings. The profiles can be screwed together with bolts, washers and nuts.

Step 1 -

First, connect the 25 mm wide vertical profiles with the 2 long 15 mm wide horizontal profiles, like you can see in the following photos.

Step 2 -

Step 3 -

Then attach the short horizontal profiles to one of the already connected sides. Finally, connect the two parts.

Step 4 -

So that you get the following structure in the end.