Would be very interesting to get a rough explanation of all the components on the trailer. Thank you very much for the awesome work you do!

Don’t know about the rest of y’all… but Das is my favorite babushka. 🤷‍♂️

I would have never of guessed Das is 44, been watching since the 20m hop days. Good to know things are still good with you man!

Das is great. Who else could give a master class in solar elevation and seasonal progression, equipped only with a squeegee and a reluctant cameraman?

Thank you for all the Hard work guys! I'm sure I speak for the Community when I say we are all so grateful for everything you do for us all!

Thank you for the 'Dasplanation" on how the solar panels work. You did a great job since I actually understood it :) Shout out to Daniel and Dr. Holley.

100% need more of these types of videos.

If you used a toilet plunger, you could place it right on the panel. 😂

We need more of this guy. Best personality on the channel

Nice to see Das again. Hope you are good. Thanks for your work and the work of the whole Team at NSF.

Appreciate all your hard work behind the scenes Das and Daniel, et al. Really awesome to see how this channel has evolved over the years, kudos 🙂

strangely enough the fact daas overshares is so endearing! dont ever change bro! :)

Glad to see you, Das. Miss you on the commentaries.

Thank you for all of the Great Coverage NSF!

100% need more of these videos!

Hi Daniel! Welcome to the camera side of NSF. :)

Thank das for the solar panel discussion oh and lunch too

love this guy, please upload more of these informal ones.

For those of you wondering about everything else on the trailer other than the solar panel, here's what I can pick up as someone who works in an industry with this sort of stuff: On the left pole closest to him are three small fixed cameras which are just used for general monitoring of the area around the trailer, and the thumbnail shows a PTZ camera (mounted upside down) on the top of that pole. The rounded enclosure on the other pole is a point-to-point communication antenna, which would be pointed back at wherever their local broadcast 'HQ' is located (with hardline internet connectivity), while the square enclosure on that pole probably contains one or more LTE antennas. The black dome on the right side is an Axis Q63 PTZ camera, also mounted upside down. All the boxes underneath the solar panel contain everything else needed to make the trailer work, such as the battery bank, charge controller, power supplies and inverters, network switch, etc.

These behind the scenes videos are so good! Great to see how the amazing launch views are brought to us. Thanks NSF!

Love these behind the scenes updates! Great job NSF team!

Thanks Das and Daniel, and NSF team we appreciate the effort made to give us the great views. Hi Dr Holly🌻 .

The amount of work you guys put into this coverage is amazing. Thanks for all the great work.

Great explainer for the solar panels and shadows. I TOTALLY get the whole PPE thing. When I worked construction in Florida, I wore white T-Shirts while the rest of the crew walked around shirtless, cooking their skin. I also wore tinted safety glasses you could get for free off the nail truck. They laughed, called me "Ray Charles", but I DGAF.

I'd love to see more of this kind of thing. Really helps personalize or bring space work into more reality. Thanks as allways.

Very impressive! Always love seeing what it takes to make content like this!

Thank all of you guys for hard and clever work

Always enjoy your videos -- no matter the subject, never boring. At first I thought I was watching "Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion."

Thank you NSF for your coverage.

I'm gonna need more of these behind the scenes vids, I love them.

Nice video filled with some interesting facts about the solar panel orientation and some fun! Thank you!

das invents the sundial :-)

Another excellent dasplanation!

love the behind the scenes, can't wait for more. really interesting to see how your whole operation works

Thanks for the coverage. It was crazy. As expected

love it. more Das more better.

You could use the blade of your squeegee as a 90 degree angle for alignment. Nice behind the scenes.

There’s no replacing Das!

God bless JohnGalloway”DAS”!!!❤️to👀!!!

The panels can also overheat and reduce their output. Bi-directional panels mounted parallel and not only get direct sunlight but also reflected light off the ground or a surface. Bonus with that is not surface for dust/debris to settle and lowered impact of heat from the sun.

The highway site was shown during stream (and I think members only video?). Maybe consider putting scaled down chopsticks on your communication tower. There is some resemblance with the truss structure. Your sun angle changes not only across the day - it's also across the year (zenith is highest in July). there is a table of optimal angle for solar panels - based on your latitude!

Came for a trailer update, stayed for the solar panel adjustment. Very much pleased!

This was very helpful solar panel angle to sun lesson! Thanks! 😀👍 🍕🌞🚀

Awesome, thanks for this video content! Love this!!!

Das ist Guud. 😎

This is why yall are the best. Thanks for the hard work.

using the shadow for measuring alignment is dman clever, will remember that.

Def love the bts keep em coming thanks for the hard work

Love the behind the scenes 🚀

Das is excelent!

Nice one Das. Keep the details coming dude. We know there are a lot of people keeping this channel and its coverage going!

Funny video. Thank you Das!

U guys are great. I hate I can't meet you in person because I live across the globe but I will support you as much as I can from here and... Who knows, maybe we will shake hands one day 🖖

Next time you want to check your panel angle... take a beer can or soda can along. Hold it right on the face of a panel. Check the shadow it casts there, as opposed to something held up on the side of the panel. :)

Face your panels South and tilt them up about 26 degrees directly towards the sun at solar noon when you have your smallest shadow.. Solar Noon is when the Sun is due South and as high as it can get in the sky. If you live in Northern Alaska I suggest a Generator. ;-)

I want Das's job. Dude's a monster!

He said he had a finglonger and I got excited, but turns out it's only a squeegee. A man can dream, though. A man can dream.

Das, modern day Eratosthenes 🙂

Totally love it 😊

We want more DAS, and I love !Mary

You should swap those bolts for quick pull pins on one side, and heim joints on the other

The whole trailer setup would be a great video.

loved the video nsf rocks

Ha! A variation of ancient sun-dial technology.....

Missing you on the channel Das

Love your technical explanations for the best free source of energy 🥰 I hope more people use it, so even if we go to mars the people who can’t afford it, still have manageable temperatures and climate conditions on earth 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

This was awsome, more please ❤l

I would love more details about the rest of the trailer in future installments.

Fun fact… you don’t want 90° at high noon… you sure would get the highest Watt numbers at that time but the Watt Hours aka Wh over the entire day will be lower compared to having it “steeper” to get more before and after high noon :)

Here's the Aussie way... At mid day place a BEER can on the panel. Adjust the panel until the shadow is directly over the can, ie NO SHADOW. Then drink the beer. Job done.

The stream was dope thanks to the solar panels and you guys

Great video. Good stuff.. 😀

Thanks guys appreciate the behind the scenes look

Very interisting background video. More plz! ❤

ive been waiting so long for a video like this!!! im personally starting my own livestreams for company too

Sunglasses are good for you. Thanks for the solarpanel explanation. 😅

The best method to calibrate the angle is the beer can method. Put the beer can on the panel and you should not see a shadow.

Absolutely love these BTS videos…. More please!

PPE pro right there. Good on ya.

Awesome setup

Good job das 😊

Everybody should have Starbase Live on!

Das here with the chaos class on solar panel science

Have you considered two smaller panels, one facing WSW the other ESE. This gets more sun early morning and late evening and still gets plenty when the sun is high. Granted probably not as an effective roof to keep rain off.

Cool to see that... you should do more of these

You could try Bifacial solar panels, which receive light from both sides.

You can also use a used Skywatcher HEQ5 equatorial mount for astro and put your panel on the plate configured with Sun tracking. This head can run on 12v batteries

Too cool.

Always enjoy your productions, Das. Who is Dr Holley?

awesome

Pretty cool inclination indicator :)

good idea

They do sell sun glasses rated for eye protection

We need Das vlogs

I swear, Das knows everything about everything.? Lol

"You could use a square". You have a square in your hands! The squeegee-blade is at a 90° to the handle in your hand.

Simplest solution for solar panels is to just oversize the panel. Way cheaper to buy a 30% larger panel than to buy and maintain a tracking mount for it.

I use a cheap 12 inch speed square and set it on the panel. Check it at solar noon for your exact location. If you want an easy mount to adjust, find an old c/ka-band satellite dish mount (the big 10 foot dishes). The actuators have 24 volt DC brushless motors and are strong.

Futurama reference ftw!

Nice video. You have that slotted rail under the solar panel. Why not attach a flat panel with a vertical rod/pipe in the center. Then you can just walk up and look at the shadow. Like a sundial. ... Maybe even make marks for the months 😀