Sustainable battery power solutions company NXTGENbps worked with High Viz Media to provide all the shooting power required to cover the 2024 Formula Student at Silverstone last month.
The event, run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, sees teams of students building a fully functional car to compete in a series of stringent tests.
The livestream included an eight-and-a-half-hour broadcast on Saturday 20 July, produced by High Viz Media.
“These courses test the agility, endurance and speed of the cars – and they are very fast indeed. For us, it meant continually resetting to different locations to get the cameras where they were needed,” said High Viz Media founder and MD Nick Collier.
To simplify the continual re-rigging, High Viz Media powered all their cameras via a NXTGENbps Goat portable power unit, which provides 5 kW, with a basic capacity of 4.8 kWh expandable up to 139.2 kWh.
“It powered our multi-camera weekend on a single charge,” said Collier. “Even without the solar panels the Goat operated for two days without any significant degradation.”
