100w portable solar report
Yesterday March 8 we had full sun here at Roosevelt Lake, AZ. My two Group 27 batteries read 12.52v at the start of the day, measured at the batteries with the Turnigy WattMeter. I used it to collec...
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I remember back in, I think the 60's.. A magazine called Popular Electronics, (now deceased as I recall) did a story on building a "Solar Sundial"
This unit consisted of some solar panels, and some shaded solar cells.. IF the sun was shining more on the clockwise one,, a motor was activated till the two shaded cells were balanced (there was a vane between them) to the bigger panels always faced the sun.
Now this was designed as a Sundial, novelity item.
But if you put bigger panels on it.. Automatic sun tracker.
Add two more solar cells with a horizontal vane instead of a vertical one and it's a 2-axis sun tracker.
Several companies have tried to patent such designs (Solar trackers) however the PE article makes it kind of hard to do that.
This unit consisted of some solar panels, and some shaded solar cells.. IF the sun was shining more on the clockwise one,, a motor was activated till the two shaded cells were balanced (there was a vane between them) to the bigger panels always faced the sun.
Now this was designed as a Sundial, novelity item.
But if you put bigger panels on it.. Automatic sun tracker.
Add two more solar cells with a horizontal vane instead of a vertical one and it's a 2-axis sun tracker.
Several companies have tried to patent such designs (Solar trackers) however the PE article makes it kind of hard to do that.
