In this video, i discuss what should be the optimal spacing and optimal tilt for solar installations which utilize arrays of solar panels, placed next to each other
First, thank-you. I'm currently sketching a software framework to control a dual axis pv system for my home. Your commentary has given me further insight into what needs done for counter shading. Conventional wisdom states that simply adding more panels is cheaper than investing the time and capital to track the sun. However, I live in a post war house, on a small lot with shading challenges of epic proportions. So I need to make the most of the sun and sq footage that is available. I have taken the liberty of creating a scale of Sun Quality where Grade A Sun is where my system could intercept the light of the sun at a near perfect perpendicularity for both axis. Grade B is only success for a single Axis. Grade C is failure to align with either axis yet still capturing enough light to create sufficient voltage to engage the inverters. A host of Virtual Machines coordinate the activity and every 45 minutes they attempt to adjust the pv arrays in something that resembles a NASA "go for launch" sequence.
The tilt does not have to be = Latitude. It depends on WHEN you want to optimise energy production. Optimisation thus depends on the application. The tilt will be different whether you want to optimise energy production over the whole year, energy production in winter or even power production at a certain time of the day.
If you have a Solar Pole and the top of your solar panel is 20 feet from the ground how far apart do you have to be so they will not shade The other Pole
Yes, optimally the angle can equal your latitude, but in a large array such as this they may have to take high winds into consideration. Much ado about nothing. As to your panel orientation, of course a portrait orientation will create greater shading issues than a landscape orientation. Just avoid shading! All the rest about diodes is simply overthinking a very simple problem.
Or you could buy real CIGS solar panels then you dont have all this shade issue's and tilt issue's. And then again you get better production pr Wp installed . Last but not least, its much more environmentally friendly way of producing a solar panel. + you get no micro cracks in CIGS. Drop the c-Si solar cells and get the real thing CIGS
