User Diaries / Re: My very very long solar tracker build
« Last post by XeonPony on May 10, 2024, 03:24:14 PM »I still need to measure actual current from the drive motor through a full rotation to see the peak amps and time it to set the home position for after Sundown as the controller has a parking feature.
Reminds me of the satellite television dish my parents had when I was young. It used pivots to tilt back and forth. The pivoting apparatus bore its weight on an arc shaped bar. As you rotated the dish horizontally there were wheels that rested against the bar. The bar sat on the horizontal pivot before the dish tilt machinism and could be adjusted about to any direction before keybolts held it tight against the main horizontal pivot. Until wind got in the low 50s the big dish could hold a tight signal.
It was made with a good bit of repurposed satellite dish parts and concepts