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Re: To track or not
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by zbotrobot on Sat Aug 16th, 2003 at 09:11:51 PM MST
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I track 3 times a day. The first is at night for the morning sun until 11 am, then to 2pm them a last time to 3 pm to sunset - andstrait up on cloudy days. The advantage of manual tracking is its cheap, reliable and the cloudy days. A mirroring matrial can be used on the first and last movements - and this is clever: at certain angles the mirrors will work - conveiniently when the sun is low - and as the sun rises the angle of the mirror dimenishes! So that it is not overheating the pannels at the peak. Never mirror at the peak directly or they will blister. Also do not scrub pannels - the wires are shallow. Be aware that doping with salt in winter can cause corrosion issues.
Re: To track or not
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by Windnutone on Fri Sep 5th, 2003 at 10:22:31 PM MST
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I also track manually.... well I have an old satelite dish apperatus that has a 24
volt PM Motor DC .... turns the thing. Have it on a timer and it moves three times
a dayalso ... I only have a couple hundres watts ... but this has improved my system.
I gave 3.00 for it junk weight at the scrap metal yard. My home away from
home :-)
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