Automatic Rotating Solar Panel

The longer they are aligned with the sun the more energy they can produce or at least that is the idea behind them.

Automatic rotating solar panel.

So solar panel should continuously rotate in the direction of sun. Rotating solar panels are getting a lot of media attention lately and at first glance they seem to have some benefits. Tracking systems move the panels throughout the day in order to keep them facing the sun. My tracker controller got water in it so i m just rotating it in the morning and at lunchtime.

Principle of sun tracking solar panel. Created by jason wright jpw97 and jeremy blum jeb373 for cornell university s ece4760 course. We designed and built a system to automatically orient a solar panel for maximum efficiency record data and safely charge batteries. The panels were in the same position fixed for a year and the difference of being able to rotate the array is massive.

The sun tracking solar panel consists of two ldrs solar panel and a servo motor and atmega328 micro controller. Automatic sun tracking solar panel and data analytics.