Comments | fursuit: H-Cell 2.0: adaptable for suits?

athelind in fursuit

H-Cell 2.0: adaptable for suits?

Jun 09, 2010 22:25

I posted this to rarsuit a couple of weeks ago, but forgot to copy it over here.

Miniature Hydrogen Fuel Cell for Hobby Market
It uses metal hydride hydrogen cartridges, and a refilling station is also available. With two of those installed, it carries 24-30 Wh of energy, which should run most fursuit electronics and fans for quite a while ( Read more... )

animatronics, lights / led / el wire, keeping cool, voice changing, wings, fans, inspirational stuff

Comments 8

furlic June 10 2010, 07:43:55 UTC

I've heard mixed things about hydrogen fuel cells....yeah, they are "green" and everything, but they are much like a time bomb just waiting to go off...my point being that, atleast in hydrogen-fueled cars, the way it all works basically creates the equivalent of a hydrogen bomb. I guess that isn't always a huge possibility, but maybe it is something to think about.

fatkraken June 10 2010, 09:35:28 UTC

I don't think you mean a "hydrogen bomb" as in "H-bomb", those are fusion bombs that cause nuclear explosions. Fuel cells just combine the Hydrogen with Oxygen effectively burning in in conventional combustion.

furlic June 10 2010, 18:27:31 UTC

lol yes, that XD
I totally wasn't comparing it to a nuclear explosion! lol

gavinfox June 10 2010, 18:41:10 UTC

Well... Hydrogen burns UP, and Gasoline burns OUT... So a hydrogen explosion should be safer than a gasoline explosion!

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mandyseley June 10 2010, 14:57:42 UTC

Interesting, but I question its applicability to fursuits. Runs hot enough to require its own cooling fans, and fursuits get hot enough to be dangerous on their own...

athelind June 10 2010, 17:15:08 UTC

That does seem to be the big downside, yeah. And most suits don't have particularly heavy power requirements, so this would be overkill.

If you had one with an electric wing-pack, though, you could mount it on the outside of the pack, with clever concealment; if you had a suit that has costume bits or accessories, especially technical-looking stuff, you could incorporate it into the gear.

Mostly, I posted this to make sure it was in the archives; at SOME point, someone's going to have a power-hungry suit idea, and will be looking for something with more oomph than scavenged laptop batteries.

I'm interested to see what the engineer types have to say.