Solar Tracker VS Fixed Mount solar panels Charging the EcoFlow Delta Pro.

Showing the deference in a solar tracker vs a fixed mount solar array

[dirkthedrummer]

You have built a super solartracker that everyone would like to have. Great job. Congratulate!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[lewchaney]

Brilliant demo. I’m completely convinced that using trackers for solar panels is the only way to go. Thanks. 😊

[elwoodgaming]

Even with the price, this is one thing I would love to have in my garage, ready to charge my Delta Max whenever I need it.

[jeremylunbeck]

Would love to see this test again having the eco down on battery percentage to see the amount of time difference between 0-100 percent using these setups.

[mdunbar]

Great Video as always Gavin. Best channel on YouTube his viewers ask for a video/demonstration and Bam Gavin does it. If you still have it set up it would be interesting to put a couple of watt meters on and let them run for a full day.

[keitharoo]

I'm amazed at how big a difference a tracker actually makes! Thanks for the video.

[doodieman]

What I like best in this Solar Tracker is that it keeps the panels on that perfect 90-angle to the sun.

[oby-]

Trackers are the only way to go. Thanks for the video.

[lamarwilliams]

Great video. I always wondered and now I know. And knowing is half the battle!! Good job👍

[davidpotter]

I go out and move my twelve 100 watts panels manually for now. It does make more power to face them into the sun. I made square tubing frames for some of the panels, so that two of them are in a frame. When I bought panels, I would go to buy two more, and they would be out, so, I would buy another brand, so, I wound up with five different sizes, four different brands, ten are mono and two are poly. It's like when you go to the salvage yard and they have all kinds of cars. We have hail, storms and high winds sometimes here, so I kind of have to hide the panels on the East side of my room out here in the barn. So about 4 : 30 PM when I still should be getting sun on the panels, they start getting shaded by the barn, so I lose about 3 hours a day from that...if I move the panels farther away to get sun longer, they put out less amps from longer wires. I'm using two in each frame to get 24 volts...right now it's showing 30.2 volts coming in. Chance of rain tomorrow, 615 watts coming in at the moment. That's about what I will get today because of clouds. 800 watts of my panels are 40 feet from the controller. If they were all on 15 foot wires I would be getting 1000 watts. This winter I will hook the panels up with shorter wires to get more amps. The sun will only be out for a few hours anyways. I'm charging 20 marine batteries that I got at AutoZone...8 are the 90 amp and 12 are the 105 amp. I had to buy the smaller ones for awhile to afford my Aims Power inverter/charger. It is a 24 volt 2000 watts. It came out to 1000 amp hours of battery. I sure got tired of buying them. I would like to have some trackers, but the wind here in OK would probably just break a bunch of stuff...be glad you live where you can have that kind of stuff. The way the buildings are situated, I am in the worst possible spot on this property for having panels. They are either being shaded or too far away. Next door there is a pond with trees that shade my panels in the winter mornings. I get enough to get by on, but my system would put out more if I had a better exposure. If I put the panels where the sun hits them all day, they are so far away that I don't get enough voltage. I can't just do what ever I want to because it is my uncle's place, and I don't know about building something permanent and then having to leave it. He is an old man who likes to mow the yard. I keep it weedeated around my panels so that he doesn't have to try to get close to them and get wires in the mower blades. I don't want to be a nuisance to a gripy old man, lol. My solar isn't the biggest or the best, but I'm doing okay for a homeless guy. I'm figuring it out as I go. I don't have to can a bunch of food because my freezer is going to have power. I can run things for a couple of days if the sun doesn't come out. I'm looking at buying a generator for the Dark Winter, just in case I need a charge up. The one I'm thinking about getting is a 3300 watts Generac. It takes 800 watts to run the Aims charger. I need a generator to run the welder...it takes 2400 watts or a bit less. So it has to have a 20 amp plug in on it... I have been off the grid for about 17 months.

[ernestobrazilian]

So useful!! Finally someone did the test. Thanks a lot

[danieltimisan]

I think a good comparison would be at the end of the day to see the difference in total power produced. Then you should add a 3rd fix panel the next day. Also would be more fair to have same panels. The panels on the tracker are SunPOwer and they are known to be the most efficient in the industry. The fix panels are old and very far to high efficiency. Not a very fair comparison in my opinion .. also at the end of day is when we can see in percentage how much better the tracker performed. Thanks for the video !

[Theoppositeofchaos]

Gavin you are right the system with solar tracker will produce more power but what most people are trying to run away from is the complexity of the system..the tracker itself has moving parts at any given time something will break..so fixed mount installation you just install and forget about the whole thing

[chrismaxny]

There's also the cost of the tracker, amount of power the tracker uses, maintenance of tracker, and the actual time the sun can be tracked due to trees etc. Yes with unobstructed views of west, south, east the tracker will be the best option. Scaling up things though changes the cost/benefit ratio significantly.

[Tom-In-Ga]

It'd be cool on the roof of you RV. Of course you wouldn't be able to drive under any bridges or trees. You'd have to stay out of any aircraft flight routes too. Seriously, I'm surprised the fixed panels didn't pick up anything. Possibly because they're in series? I have four 100 watt panels in parallel flat on my RV roof and will get something even at early light. I had tried them wired in series but found that getting even a little shade on one made all go dark. Anyway, that was a great demonstration on how much more efficient the tracker is versus the stationery.

[alanblyde]

Yep built one 7 years ago, still works a treat, our only power source

[bruinflight]

This is excellent work, thank you for sharing the knowledge!

[alanmcrae]

Well done demonstration sir! Definite proof of concept.

FYI: I just suggested to a friend that she consider a tracking ground mount instead of a fixed roof mount. Low winter sun will have mature deciduous trees blocking a portion of sunlight, but the leaves will have fallen off earlier so it will be just intermittent partial shading. A tracker should maximize the light collected throughout the day and seasonally adjust for optimization as well.

QUESTION: we have growing problem with hail storms here in the mountains. Is there a tracker that can go into a panel protection mode that will tilt the panels downward to protect them from hailstones, even if that cuts power production to zero for awhile.)

[mikebreen]

Your tracker system is appealing
Hope you can give a parts list for your system.

[Hawkido]

"It's not about how many guns you have, it's about how many guns you can bring to bear."