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Explorer

Aug 08, 2018

The need to (or not) carefully track the sun for solar

Can anyone give me technical guidance on the need (or not) to turn my solar panels to track the sun for best performance? Is solar collection highly optimized by nudging the panels along or creat...

BFL13

Explorer II

Aug 08, 2018

You have two things to track for.
1. the daily up and down and going around of the sun, and
2. the annual change in declination (angle of sun above/below Equator)

You also have an RV, so your latitude can change, which affects things. It is all here for how it works.

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