Arduino Solar Panel Sun Tracker

Updated servo controlled light tracking solar panel platform.

Arduino solar panel sun tracker.

So on this project is born. Project tutorial by fielding. Diy solar tracker arduino project ita. Use an arduino two small servo motors with light sensing photo resistors to steer a solar panel towards the sun.

Let us design a solar tracker using two servo motors a light sensor consisting of four ldrs and arduino uno board. It searches for the brightest light source like the sun. With that kind of power increase you d think everyone would be doing it but there are some good reasons why it s not overly common. The single most simple way of getting more energy out of a solar panel is to have it track the sun.

Aim of the project. Arduino nano and shield is easy way to connect servo motors and photodiodes i used photodiodes but now i think i should have used ldr instead of photodiodes. Solar panels are green energy source such as wind tribunes. In this system solar panel will move in the direction of sun from sun rise to sun set.

A solar tracker is a mechanical automatic device that through sensors can understand the position of the sun that thanks to the motors you can follow it so as to store more solar energy. Circuit diagram the circuit design of solar tracker is simple but setting. 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. Hi everyone in this article we are going to make a solar tracker solar tracker using arduino.

In modern solar tracking systems the solar panels are fixed on a structure that moves according to the position of the sun. The aim of this solar tracker project is to keep the solar photovoltaic panel perpendicular to the sun throughout the year in order to make it more efficient. It consists of only this components ldr module l293d motor driver module dc motor 30 rpm solar panel. When the stick on top is righted to the sun or the brightest point the four ldrs get the same amount of light on them.

The dual axis solar photovoltaic panel takes astronomical data as reference and the tracking system has the capability to always point the solar array toward the sun and can be installed in various regions with minor. I want to make a demo of solar tracker pv panels. This system is to get 100 sun energy. 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.

In fact solar panels that track the sun create around 30 more energy per day than a fixed panel.