Ok, So this brings me to another question
What if the panels are arranged in a Dish type of layout
where the dish tracks the sun. Is that a bad design or am I doing a
greater good?
I only have 4 panels but could add 6.
I am currently looking for a mount for a C-band 12' dish.
On 6/26/20 8:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Yep, almost half the panel will be in shade in December.
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*From:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2020 7:36 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* OT oh, the humanity
On my drive to my shop a few days ago, I noticed a gravel pit had a
new conex container with solar panels on top.
It is oriented N-S. The container had 4 panels, probably 10’ x 8’
panels.
They were stuck up at a pretty steep angle, good for winter.
But think about it, a 40’ long container with 4 sets of 10’ tall
(slant angle distance) panels.
On the summer solstice, I drove by about noon, yep, just as I had
bragged to my wife, from South to North, only the Southern panel had
full sun.
All the rest had at least a foot of shade at the bottom. She looked
at me and said: “but if they are in series that will kill the whole
array won’t it?”!
Gotta love that woman.
I expect that noon, first day of winter, the Northern most 3 panels
will probably only have a couple feet of sun on them.
Folks, if you hate trig or geometry remember this rule of thumb: Make
the spacing North to South 3X the panel height.
In their case, they could only have had two of these arrays up there.
One on the far South and one on the far North if they wanted first day
of winter full sun.
Or, they could have simply dropped the container East to West and not
had this problem.
Resisting the urge to stop by and lecture them....
Pretty sure I will be successful in resisting that urge...
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