This solar tracker control system is designed to take light measurements from the east and west left and right side of the solar panel and determine which way to move the panel to point it directly at.
Single axis solar tracking system circuit diagram.
Pot p1 should be mounted outside the enclosure in which the circuit may be covered.
Dual axis solar trackers uses the motor to move the solar panel in all four directions north south east west.
103 33 304 daffodil international university september 2014 logo presentation.
The project is built using a balanced concept which is three signals from the different sensors are compared.
This solar tracker system is used for tracking the sun only in one plane the horizontal one.
For solar panels control is best to use small motors with a suitable voltage and a maximum working current of 300 ma.
The battery is used to store the energy from the solar panel and applied to the loads.
The block diagram of single axis solar tracking system is shown in figure 1.
The solar panel to the lighting place by using the motor driver and the stepper motor.
One of them is the single axis solar tracker and the other is dual axis.
A single axis solar tracker improves solar output by around 25 and a dual axis tracker by around 40 according to this article on altestore.
Circuit of solar tracking system fig.
The voltage divider method is used as the voltage sensor.
The following design shows the motor control module for the proposed single axis solar tracker which involves a simple circuit made from a cheap 555 ic and some other important semiconductor parts.
Light dependent resistors ldr1 through ldr4 are used as sensors to detect the panel s position relative to the sun.
The solar tracker comprises comparator ic lm339 h bridge motor driver ic l293d ic2 and a few discrete components.
The circuit and the mechanism explained in this article may be considered as the easiest and perfect dual axis solar tracker system.
1 shows the circuit of the solar tracking system.
Single axis solar tracking system moves the solar panel from east to west in a day to point in the direction of the sun.
How the dual axis solar tracker concept works.
Daffodil international university department of electrical electronic engineering faculty of engineering final year defense construction of single axis automatic solar tracking system presented by supervised by 1 tanvir islam ms.
Schematic diagram of single axis solar tracker 17.
If you want to track the solar light in the vertical plane you need to build a separate sun tracker circuit.