I replaced my 5 year old phone yesterday with a new one that has a much better camera (never used my old phone for much photo work) so I decided to do some testing of it today and also how I could transfer it to my computer for later use. Bit of a gray day for doing this but it hit me that my solar panel setup might be a good subject. I will say it works pretty good with my computer automatically recognizing it and I can simple select to transfer photos, after plugging in a USB connector between phone and PC, and selecting photo/video transfer. My old phone would not allow simple photo transfer. I had to do an email transfer if I wanted to get photos off it.
My panels started with just one mount holding 2-100w poly panels (this photo taken with my old Olympus 2MP digital). As you can see in the image it was built with using a Direct TV satellite dish to pole mount. This allowed me to adjust the panels in all directions to see how that would affect my power generation.
Time and further experimenting kept adding more of these pole mounted panels and as I advanced from simple 12vDC setup with mobile inverters to 24vDC AIO’s, that powered most of my household loads, I eventually went to a fixed type mount. More followed as I got other panels (200w and bifacial 100w) until I now have this hodgepodge setup with 3 arrays.
Looking at it now as it has evolved to this point I think of tearing it all down and redesigning the setup into a more simple layout. However it is working at the moment so inertia is likely going to mean it will be sometime in the future if ever.
How about other folks PV layout, do you have your mounting as you intend or is it also evolving as times goes on?
My panels started with just one mount holding 2-100w poly panels (this photo taken with my old Olympus 2MP digital). As you can see in the image it was built with using a Direct TV satellite dish to pole mount. This allowed me to adjust the panels in all directions to see how that would affect my power generation.
Time and further experimenting kept adding more of these pole mounted panels and as I advanced from simple 12vDC setup with mobile inverters to 24vDC AIO’s, that powered most of my household loads, I eventually went to a fixed type mount. More followed as I got other panels (200w and bifacial 100w) until I now have this hodgepodge setup with 3 arrays.
Looking at it now as it has evolved to this point I think of tearing it all down and redesigning the setup into a more simple layout. However it is working at the moment so inertia is likely going to mean it will be sometime in the future if ever.
How about other folks PV layout, do you have your mounting as you intend or is it also evolving as times goes on?
