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 efficiency about 20%.
heating bill with this house in the winter.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackhahahaha so true Mikesglider so true.
Please take the camera away from the 5 year old who just downed his 4th candy bar! Sheesh! I’m feeling “wheezy”! Looks like a beautiful house if it was allowed to stay in the lens for more than for microseconds?
There’s no sound on this video
@DD826 This one did work after I fixed it. I had to re-grease the swivel joint, and clean the piston. The panel needed to be reset. This video was designed to show how the mechanics worked.
Nice, it might have better to show one that worked?
@1234Doc4321 Agreed. I have seen on a windy day the panels being blown in the wrong direction. The cheaper passive solar systems are easily blown in the wrong direction by the wind. Active tracking does require some energy produced by the solar panels and are more expensive.
One bad thing is the fact that on a windy day the panel can get damaged. Active tracker are run on a gear and keep the panel from moving freely.
do you know of any wind-up solar trackers? it seems like one could be built that could be reset daily, maybe out of a one hour kitchen timer or something
The main problem with this system is that on a cloudy day it will not work. This is the one major flaw of the passive tracking system. The sun is required to make the passive tracking system work.
tracker do not use allot of power mine uses 12 watt hours per day for a 10′x 10 tracker and increases the power a panel out put bu 40%. how does this system work on a cloudy day?
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