Is there life out there? Balance is building radio-quiet power for the world's largest radio telescope
May 5, 2019 • 2 minutes read News
Working on the SKA alongside Curtin University and ICRAR has created unique opportunities for Balance technical staff and the business and has positively assisted in broadening Balance's capabilities, especially in the area of highly distributed low power, low-cost, radio-quiet inverters.’
Balance CEO Rod Hayes
“The project that we’re working on involves designing and prototyping a solar hybrid stand-alone power system that will supply energy to the antennas.”
“The power system will contain a commercially available inverter, which is expected to generate electromagnetic interference requiring suppression technologies such as filtering and shielding”
“If this inverter generates too much electromagnetic interference and fails to meet electromagnetic compatibility standards for the SKA, we will have to come up with a new design for one that doesn’t interfere with the antennas
Once all the design packages are completed and approved, a critical design review for the entire project will take place before construction starts, which is expected to be in 2020.