Friday, September 24, 2010

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

Saturday, September 18, 2010

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

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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