What you ve got you see is a flatplate solar collector supported on a pivot so that it can follow the sun as it travels from east to west during the day.
Diy sun following solar panel.
In the past six months we ve seen camouflage solar panels and new rooftop tiles from tesla founder elon musk that look nothing like the dark gridded rectangles of yore.
I looked at several different designs looked at what materials i could find and this is how i did it.
2 attach the servo motors to the system where indicated by the green arrows one servo turns the whole system horizontally and the other turns the solar panel and sensor cross vertically.
But an austrian based.
1 following the annotated picture cut out of cardboard or other diy material you have the required parts and glue them together.
Diy solar panel that follows the sun solar power is a great way to get off the grid or at least power some household items to be more self sufficient.
The only problem with this is you have to have the solar panels pointing in the direction where the sun the most.
Being able to follow the sun s path through the sky can raise your solar panel system s output considerably 30 50 but the argon filled ones can be a bit pricey and seem to be a bit unsteady in wind.