Solar LED Lighting

Visible Light Solar Technologies Solar LED Lighting for Lexus

Lexus Selects Visible Light Solar Technologies Solar/LED Lighting Solutions for New Mexico Dealerships, Gaining Over 80% Efficiencies.

Extreme testing' a solar-powered LED light

Carmanah engineers test a new self-contained solar-powered LED light for aviation, marine and obstruction tasks. Designed to perform in some of the world's most challenging environments

How Solar Tracking Systems Work and Solar Trackers, The Most Advanced Panels

Solar Trackers, The Most Advanced Panels

Solar tracking devices, mounted with photovoltaic (PV) panels, allow the panels to exactly track the sun's path across the sky and can increase the yield of solar energy installations by as much as 40 percent compared to stationary panels. Solar trackers have been around since about 1980, but their increasing use in both commercial-scale and residential solar energy projects is a direct result of proven, improved solar capture efficiencies. This increase, though largely driven by commercial-scale solar energy installations, has translated into lower costs and more reliable tracking systems for homeowners and small businesses as well.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Solar-Trackers,-The-Most-Advanced-Panels&id=2794870

How Solar Tracking Systems Work

Solar power systems are an investment both financially and environmentally. A PV system will save money on electricity and ensure a greener future. The one drawback with solar is that most system are fixed whereas the sun is continually changing positions in the sky. However, with the use of solar tracking systems this loss of energy can be largely mitigated.

But what are solar tracking systems? Put simply, these systems when applied to photovoltaic power kits track the sun, and cause the panels to rotate to receive sunlight for as long a possible. This increases your power output by as far as 30 to 50%, though the amount can be significantly less than that depending on the photovoltaic tracking system you use and your location. Of course this energy generated does not take into account the amount of power the tracking system itself uses, but it's minuscule compared to the additional power you'll be gathering from your sun-powered home kit. There are also power-less systems that use gas-filled tubes to move the trackers.

http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Solar-Tracking-Systems-Work&id=2362851

Increase Your Solar Panel Output by Using a Solar Tracker

So do you want to know how a solar tracker can increase your solar system output?

I understand how a lot of people are using solar systems to power their homes. It saves a lot of money plus it is an environment friendly source of energy.

Well, I do use solar panels myself to generate electricity at my own home. And guess what?

I was able to increase the output of my solar system by using a solar tracker.

Get this- A tracker can increase your annual output by a minimum of 30%.

I want you to think about this- We all know that the position of the sun varies both with the seasons and time of the day as the sun moves across the sky, right?

Of course we all do, even a 10 years old knows that.

Solar tracker

http://ezinearticles.com/?Increase-Your-Solar-Panel-Output-by-Using-a-Solar-Tracker&id=3646483

2 Axis Solar Tracker Data and Video

 2 axis solar tracker Arduino Nano vid1

Arduino Nano controlled 2 axis solar tracker / light seeker AND battery charger. Hobby scale for the moment. The tracking fidelity is excellent, but there is still a mechanical resonance problem.

2 axis solar tracker Arduino Nano vid2

Arduino Nano controlled 2 axis solar tracker / light seeker AND battery charger. Hobby scale for the moment. The tracking fidelity is excellent, but there is still a mechanical resonance problem.

2 axis solar tracker Arduino Nano vid4

Arduino Nano controlled 2 axis solar tracker / light seeker and battery charger. Hobby scale for the moment. The tracking fidelity is excellent, but there is still a mechanical resonance problem.

Passive Solar Panel Tracking

This is a video of the panels I will be using at the UF biodiesel plant. The solar panel arrays in the Solar Energy Park use a passive tracking system which allows for the panels to increase

Homemade Solar Tracker Demo and Solar Tracker Selfmade

Video show demo of homemade solar tracker and video show how to make solar by your self

Solar Tracker Demo.

A video of our solar tracker before the demo day. A MATLAB script continuously polls the photo-diodes through the DAQ and varies the pulse wave of the servo accordingly to make positional adjustment

Simple Solar / Sun Tracker

Video Homemade Sun Tracker in action.

Solar tracker selfmade

zweiachsige Nachführung - Tracked solar panel

Sun Tracking Solar Panel w/ Arduino

I had some little solar panels laying around and wanted to see if they would power the Arduino. They did. So, I wanted to see if I could make a sun tracking circuit to autonomously follow the sun

Solar panel tracker assembly video

Video show how to assembly Solar panel tracker , Solar tracker installing

Tracker Assembly Part 1

Solar tracker installing the frame and parts

Solar panel tracker

Video show how to assembly aluminium frame

Solar Tracker

I have fitted the panels and fitted the motor drive with just the tracker to fit. Think I will re make the arms used to move the unit as when I am not happy about something

Solar Tracker Animation

Solar Tracker Animation, Simple model of a solar tracker, Animation show solar tracking device

An early rendering of the coolest solar tracker

Solar Tracker 2.5

Senior Design 2 project: solar tracker

Solar Tracker Motion

Simple model of a solar tracker. Just a hypothetical model with no bearings, bolts, or controls. Part of a design project for an Energy System Design course at the University of Wisconsin

solar tracking device

Animation show solar tracking device

Solar Tracker uses LEGO

Solar Tracker make by LEGO

LEGO® Solar Tracker bygget i et elektronik projekt. 4 lysdioder generer en spænding når de belyses. motorer vender platformen så de fire dioder belyses lige meget.

SolarRobot

A Robot that tracks the movement of the sun in order to optimize the Position of a Solar Panel. The Robot uses a Lego RCX controller, with Lejos firmware installed. It runs custom Java code

NXT Solar Tracker

A rotating solar tracker. A Vernier Differential Voltage Probe and NXT are used to measure the voltage generated by a pair of solar cells when in the presence of the sun or a strong light source.

Sun Tracker Project

Intelligent Sun-Tracking System for Efficiency Maximization of Photovoltaic Energy Production

Abstract.

This paper focuses on the optimization of the electric energy production by photovoltaic cells through the development of an intelligent sun-tracking system. The developed tracking system is innovative in relation to the usual sun tracking systems available in the market. In fact, the developed solution has many advantages in relation to similar existing devices, as this system is autonomous regarding the information needed to process the optimal orientation and is intelligent in a way that it performs on-line monitoring of the photovoltaic energy production.

An experimental prototype was built and field results have proven the good performance of the developed tracking system.Overall System Presentation

The overall system is presented in fig. 1. The complete

strategy is composed by 5 sub-systems: 1) Electro-

Mechanical Structure; 2) Control Unit; 3) Supervisory

System; 4) Wind-meter; 5) Photovoltaic Park.

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Sunlight Tracker Project

Automated sunlight tracker with an intelligent algorithm using sensors  

BOT01 Initial Test

This is the first prototype of a sun tracker project BOT that I just through together off the top of my head. Completely hand made from recycled scrap and parts. Arduino controller with a Motor Shield.

Sun Tracker Working

Sun Tracker

We set out to build a solar tracker.

The tracker uses two Nema 23 bipolar stepper motors to rotate 2 photovoltaic cells around the altitude and azimuth axes. We have three tracking algorithms to track the sun. The first moves the PV panel in little squares in spherical coordinates, finds the point on the square with the best voltage, and moves there, then starts over. The second moves in a little square, finds the voltage gradient, and uses that to decide where to move. The third uses the second strategy to find 5 or 6 good points spread 1hour apart, uses a multivariable, nonlinear, least-squares fit to find its latitude, the day of the year, the time of day, and then predicts where the sun will be next. It will use this equation for a few repositions, and then check to make sure it’s right using the second algorithm. In moving the PV panel, our stepper motors ramp up to speed in order to prevent overshoot and jerk/rattling.

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Sun Tracker Working Video

We built this little prototype as part of an embedded systems class I was taking Fall of 2008. The green pcb board mounted on the plastic "table" was harvested from an old optical mouse.

Sun Tracker Working

Sun Tracker

We set out to build a solar tracker.

The tracker uses two Nema 23 bipolar stepper motors to rotate 2 photovoltaic cells around the altitude and azimuth axes. We have three tracking algorithms to track the sun. The first moves the PV panel in little squares in spherical coordinates, finds the point on the square with the best voltage, and moves there, then starts over. The second moves in a little square, finds the voltage gradient, and uses that to decide where to move. The third uses the second strategy to find 5 or 6 good points spread 1hour apart, uses a multivariable, nonlinear, least-squares fit to find its latitude, the day of the year, the time of day, and then predicts where the sun will be next. It will use this equation for a few repositions, and then check to make sure it’s right using the second algorithm. In moving the PV panel, our stepper motors ramp up to speed in order to prevent overshoot and jerk/rattling.

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Sun Tracker Working Video

We built this little prototype as part of an embedded systems class I was taking Fall of 2008. The green pcb board mounted on the plastic "table" was harvested from an old optical mouse.

PIC Project - Sun Tracker

PIC Microcontroller Project - Precise Sun Tracker

Video Sun tracker project used PIC Microcontroller

Homemade sun tracker - Inseguitore Solare photodiodes based

Inseguitore solare a solo asse verticale basato su due foto diodi interfacciati ad un PIC16F690.

Light Tracker v0.6 Second Video

Second video of the V0.6 version I haven't worked anymore on it because I was working on a Oscillocope with a pic an a GLCD that I just finished and now I'm making a regulable laboratory power supply.

Homemade sun tracker

Homemade sun tracker video

Home made 2 axis sun tracker and panel rack with wind generator

Simple Solar / Sun Tracker

Video Homemade Sun Tracker in action.

Homemade sun tracker - Inseguitore Solare photodiodes based

Inseguitore solare a solo asse verticale basato su due foto diodi interfacciati ad un PIC16F690.

Sun Tracker - Timed Solar Tracking

Our homemade solar tracker uses a different approach to tracking the sun.

Easy Make Sun Tracker by LEGO

Easy and Simple Homemade Sun Tracker Video

Using no sensors, no circuits, no transistors or fotoresistors, this home made "Lego Sun Tracker" located the sun withour any problem.

Sun Tracker Robot Timelapse

FINALLY, I had all the parts to make both the Sun Tracker and the CamBot, PLUS we had a (somewhat) sunny day. This is about 7 hours of runtime with pictures taken at 60 second intervals.

Lego sun tracker video

a lego robot i made in virtual space tech (my class) that follows light.

Sun Tracker Animation Video

Video Show Sun Tracker Animation

Animation show machanic of sun tracker . Use two RC servomotor

ANIMATION SUN TRACKER, UCSM, ELECTRONICA, KSH

proyecto seguidor solar, en proceso, animacion de funcionamiento en 1 solo eje  

SunPower T-0 Tracker

This animation shows how the SunPower T-0 Tracker works