A BELIEVER

Hi G........, Did you read my old: Cruisers & Sailing Forums > The Fleet >Multihull Sailboats Electric main drive(s) #320 posting: On how that kind of energy is collected from the panel??

Hi guys and gals,
I just got back from visiting DBK solar last night after spending the day there. They really won't have product out the door until the first part of next year.

The unit I tested looks good, weighs about 50 lbs and is soundly
built. (I used to build conventional panels myself back in the early 90's)
the first test was done at 10 am in the shade. The warehouse faces west, the panel was rolled up to about half
in and half out of the warehouse door with the sun at that time still in the east creating a shadow from where we were, out into the parking lot about 30 ft away.
I was surprised they were going through the demonstration anyway! UB121100

They hooked up the panel to a battery and an inverter. Putting a tester on the battery I found it was at 12.7 Volts.

Putting it on the panel I found it was putting out 166.6 Volts.
This was going into the inverter and into that we plugged in 2- 1875 watt hair driers that ran full blast.

In the afternoon at 3:00 pm the test was repeated in full sun. The panel overloaded the inverter putting out 225.6 volts.

They proceeded to cover the panel with a blanket about 2/3's. That still ran the hair driers at full blast. It seems the panel will easily put out over 4000 watts in full sun
and over 3500 in the shade.

It will put out some even at night. (short wave radiation is converted as well)

They are guarantying 3000 watts output at 20 years down the line.
More later. Steve Merrill.

Now additionally:
I used to manufacture conventional solar panels back in the early 90's, so I pretty much know what I'm looking at.

DBK builds their panels using 5 layers of cells as I remember.

Each layer captures ever shorter radiation passing through the previous layers, so sun 'light' as
we see it is only the first harvested.

They get much more energy from the shorter wavelengths
consequently even when shaded.

This is why all the pros scream 'impossible' to get that much power.

They only reckon on the visible light spectrum of energy available as collected with conventional panels.

The guys at DBK know what they've got, so pretty much laugh at the criticism.

They invited them to come and look and measure but funny thing, none come.

Hope this helps, Steve Merrill (and no, I don't work for them)

There has to be something in the way they are conducting their demonstrations that convinces people, because all the engineers and scientist that I have contacted so far say "No Way".

There are countless errors and innuendo's on their websites that make me wonder. They state the system they use is put together with products that are on the market and available and therefore not patentable. For us to invest $100,000 or $4,000 down for a protected area code seems foolish if one of the neighborhood kids can reproduce the panel in their garage. DBK states that they have a Patent pending but there is no record of it anywhere that I can find.

The DBK attitude is that "we have something great" take it or leave it. They claim they are not even interested in the "Nobel Prize" .

My usual rule of thumb is that if it's too good to be true, then....you know the rest.

On the other hand I think 'what if it is true ' and I miss the opportunity to make more money than anyone can even dream of.

Well enough expounding. I have yet to locate anyone anywhere on the planet that has actually installed and used their product even though it has been out since 2005. In fact, when you hadn't posted anything in the Cruiser Forum since last year, I figured you had gone to work for DBK and you were in Hawaii selling Solar Panels and getting rich. ps. Sorry about your boat deposit, hope that works out for you soon.\
G....