Solar Tracking - Using Time To Follow The Sun

Commercial made solar trackers are a nice addition to any solar panel array. They help increase the time that panels directly face the sun and allow them to produce their maximum power. Unfortunately they can be expensive to buy. We decided to make our own solar tracker to see if we could reduce the cost. We did not want to re-invent the wheel but wanted to make it more affordable. We started out small and came up with the idea of solar tracking using time instead of using a device that would sense where the sun is and move the panels toward it.

YEP! With an attached solar electric panel, our solar tracker has provided several additional hours of power to our evaporative cooler. The tracker is faced toward the sun at several selected times throughout the day and aims the panel right where the sun is. Even if the clouds block the sun for several hours, this solar tracking method knows where the sun will be and is waiting for it to come back out.

We made a video and a set of plans for our solar tracker. Please visit our website to learn more information about our tracker.

You can watch our solar tracking video to see how it works

We use our solar tracker along with a solar evaporative cooler that we made to keep our home cool in the summer. You can use our solar cooler plans and do the same.

Watch our solar cooling video

You can watch our solar electricity video to see how it works.

You can watch our passive solar video to see how it works.

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