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Solar Tracking - How We Made A Solar Tracker

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A set of plans is now available. They are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format and can be viewed and saved right from this site. Just click on the link below and hit the save button. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the plans.

We are making these plans available to everyone without charge on one condition.

If you download the plans and use them to make your own solar tracker, please make a donation for our efforts. We would like to continue making this site available to everyone. Your donation will help do so.

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I have always thought about using solar tracking for a solar panel. Commercial solar trackers are somewhat expensive but do extend the time that a solar panel receives solar energy. I have not purchased any yet but decided to make a small scale solar tracker that I use with our solar cooler.

The solar tracker uses a TV antenna rotator attached to a 2 inch pipe that is mounted on the ground. A photovoltaic solar panel is also attached to the 2 inch pipe. Since the rotator can be controlled by a remote control, I found a programmable one that I use to position the rotator to face the solar panel toward the sun at different times during the day. Even though it can’t actually track on its own the way the commercial versions do, I can easily program it to follow the sun’s path.

Please  visit the Living On Solar Blog to talk about or ask questions about solar tracking.

The video runs for 3 minutes and 17 seconds and shows how we use solar tracking. We hope that you enjoy the video. Please watch our other solar videos elsewhere on this site.

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Solar Tracking News 

US DOI Fast-Tracking Initiatives for Solar Energy on Federal Lands
Under one initiative, 24 tracts of Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-administered land located in six western states, known as Solar Energy Study Areas, ...
Clean Technology Investment Rebounds
Notably left out of the action was the once-hot solar sector, which posted its lowest level of investment in more than three years at $114 million. ...
PRODUCT HOW-TO - Building an FPGA-based intelligent solar tracking ...
This article describes an FPGA- and embedded processor-based system-on-a-chip (SOC) implementation of a prototypical solar-tracking electricity generation ...

Solar Tracking Blogs 

US DOI Fast-Tracking Initiatives for Solar Energy on Federal Lands ...
Under initiatives announced by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and US Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), federal agencies will work with western leaders to designate tracts of US public lands in the West as prime zones for utility-scale ...
georgesworkshop: Performance of the tracking solar parabola array
Performance of the tracking solar parabola array. Many of you have asked about the performance of my DIY solar heating project. While I have been making various changes and improvements, I will provide detail on the measurements I have ...
AUTOMATIC SOLAR TRACKING SYSTEM :: Elites TV
file:///C:/Documents and Settings/SOUMIK BANERJEE/Desktop/AUTOMATIC SOLAR TRACKING SYSTEM.pdf My AUTOMATIC SOLAR TRACKER starts following the SUN right from dawn, throughout the day, till evening, and starts all over again from dawn ...

 

 

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