Simple Solar Question (kinda of a Poll ?)
If I have 200 watts on a polar mount now, and I track the Sun thru the day,....moving at least 3 - 4 times a day,......sometimes every hr if not doing anything any better, about how many watts would I...
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TomG2 wrote:
Thanks Snowman for this, "I didn't go to the trouble of plotting it out and adding it up, but my educated guess is that 200 watts tilted and moved (tracking) 2 or 3 times during the day in Mission on Jan 15 would be about the same output as 500 watts or more, flat."
I was curious as to the approximate efficiency with flat mounting versus tilted. Thanks for not trying to snow me (pun intended) with a lot of jargon.
You're welcome. I might be off because of putting the wrong time zone into the calculator. In that case maybe the answer is 400 instead of 500. But you get the idea. Even in the summer, BFL's results were close to 2 to 1.
edit: okay, I corrected my error. At 1030 and 1500, your ratio would be 2 to 1. At noon, 1.6 to 1. So I feel like 400 watts is a nice round answer to your question.
