Tracking Video

This is a video of our solar tracker at about 3x normal speed. It's pretty boring to watch at regular speed since the sun moves pretty slowly. We intentionally misaligned the collector so you can get an idea of how it adjusts to find the sun.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SJSU
• mechanical engineering
• solar
• solar tracking
• dual-axis solar tracker

[tsbrownie]

What's the *net* power output?

[Kalagator]

@tsbrownie Our project was the mechatronic tracking system for the collector, not the actual solar collector. There was a separate project group for the thermal collector. I'll see if I can find out.

[rstevewarmorycom]

Why don't you counter-balance it so it uses less energy and

doesn't do the herky-jerky when it tries to move???