Photovoltaics: Solar trackers or trackers

[robbery]

With my little skills, I tried to formalize the concept.
It is obvious that there must be other ways of motorizing the whole.
Normally two motors are sufficient for the azimuth in the three dimensions (degrees of freedom apart).
The motors for satellite dishes, I have not yet looked.
I have multiple sclerosis, my progress may be quite slow ...
I'm glad you find it functional.
Obviously, there is no copyright, everyone can take what they want to arrange it in their sauce!
If someone wants to take up the torch, I would be interested to know their progress, their innovative thinking, and everything.

[gegyx]

All the ingredients are present in this pdf, to be inspired and to make a sun tracker (tracker), for solar panels.

https://www.econologie.info/share/partag ... ecteur.pdf

Source : http://www.astrosurf.com/soleilradio/Au ... ecteur.pdf

http://www.astrosurf.com/soleilradio/

At your service...

(We find the idea of ​​the cross, which in my corner, I imagined, on page 3 of this subject)

[toto65]

I just wanted to tell you :
thank you gegyx

[speedy08fr]

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[toto65]

speedy08fr you made a mistake. You put an image instead of your presentation photos.
Explain this picture to us.

[speedy08fr]

hello all the photo represents the follower based on antenna rotor he and fontionelle remains whatever tinker but good we did not make paris aun a young
ps rotor conrad at 50 € I am at your disposal for more information mile apologize for the faults

[Christine]

Please resize your avatar or moderation will delete it ...

[Swiss]

on the other hand EDf buys you the energy at 37 cents and not at 57 because it is not an installation integrated into the architecture of the building ...

So see if the additional cost related to the installation of tracking and the additional production of electricity will allow a return on investment.

[Remundo]

The solar tracker is a French expression of the English "solar tracking".

You can write this on google and find a lot of websites about it

More seriously, do you know what the average value of the absolute value of sin X is worth? This very crude calculation is the key to your problem, it is worth 0,63.

Case for a PV panel without tracker facing due south: the surface power is roughly in sin X, with the peak of the sine at the zenith when X = Pi / 2 (angle between the plane of the panel and the sun).

With the tracker, we are always at sin X = 1

Without the tracker, we are on the average 0,63.

it means that the tracker increases a priori the perf of 30%.

The simplest tracker is not a tracker ... it is a simple pivot which turns super slowly, but at the same time as the sun, ie 1 turn / 24h. We recommend a slope of 50 ° for PV panels. But the 2nd axis can also be programmed in 0 ° sunrise, 70 ° zenith, 0 ° sunset.

All these values ​​can be calculated with ephemeris (height and declination ...) and programmable ... in fact for PV panels, a good alternative is to know in advance where the sun is and program the motors.

To summarize, if your goal is to increase by 20 or 30% the power, put a solar tracking system, if it is more, you must buy other PV panels.

But you risk worrying with the trackers ... Delicate development, electronic weather ...

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[bpval]

Hello Remundo

More seriously, do you know what the average value of the absolute value of sin X is worth? This very crude calculation is the key to your problem, it is worth 0,63.

it means that the tracker increases a priori the perf of 30%.

The simplest tracker is not a tracker ... it's a simple pivot that runs super slowly, but at the same time as the sun, ie 1tour / 24h

Here is an interesting info ... the 30% and the simple pivot.
Understandable and applicable

Thank you

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