Some photos and details of installation of Solar Storage system designed by Wolfgang Scheffler, manufactured by Gadhia Solar Energy Systems Valasd Gujarat, India. installed at:
Barli Development Institute for Rural Women, 180 Bhamori, New Dewas Road, Indore 452010, M.P. India.

Unloading the 600 kilo beastie proved quite a hassle, though we did manage to borrow a set of chain blocks, we could not get a tripod and there was no suitable tree nearby of the thickness needed to bear such a load, so it had to be unloaded the all hands on manual way.

The mounting assembly of the original Scheffler dish gets some adjustment to to correct a misalignment

After precise and complex alignment,

the storage system gets it first on site rays of sun.

these 2 pictures below give a good view of the two  7.2 square metre Scheffler dishes.

On 22nd January 2000 a workshop was held at the Institute to propagate this type of cooking technology among the schools and college hostels in the area. This was organised by the The School of Energy and Environmental Studies DAVV University, Indore. It was also an opportunity to announce to the press and media this new solar storage system.

Seated on the dias from left are Mr. Jimmy McGilligan Manager Barli Development institute for Rural Women, Mr. Deepak Gadhia Director of Gadhia Solar Energy Systems, Mr. Bamboriya Representative of Ministry of Non Conventional Sources, Bhopal and Dr. S.L. Sawhaney Professor and Head of School of Energy and Environment Studies, DAVV indore.

A view of the back of the Scheffler dish.

Cooking Chapatis on the storage system

This Construction consists of a 16" mild steel shaft in 4 sections of 100 kilos each bolted together to form the heat storage system, which is surrounded by 6" of glass wool insulation, assembled in a heavy mild steel drum with a stainless steel top, when not in use or not being reheated  the top is covered with a large lid with 8" of glass wool insulation.

Thank You
Jimmy McGilligan

New pictures added on 10th February 2000

Cooking chapattis on the conventional solar cooker.

the above three pictures give a good view of the tracking device.

Above is Tara with her solar dishes, Tara resets the dishes every morning, and makes sure that the focus is correct, she also collects all the cooking data, and monitors the amount of material cooked in the solar kitchen.

the storage system being charged.

A veiw of kitchen  from behind the 2 Scheffler reflectors