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DarkSkySeeker
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...
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Boon_Docker
Explorer III
Aug 08, 2018
DarkSkySeeker wrote:
time2roll wrote:
Last I read you can about double the harvest with tracking.


Doubling? A 100% increase over doing nothing?


Ninety percent of the information I have read states that you can gain up to 40% by tracking vs non tracking. That does take into consideration energy consumed using an automatic tracking system.

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