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A project log for Solar Tracker, self powered and auto aligning

2-Axis solar tracker interfaces to a power monitor and charger/inverter

aidan-ruffaidan ruff 07/28/2018 at 19:080 Comments

Whilst addressing the problem of the azimuth attachment bolt coming loose, I've also decided that I need some form of damping in higher winds.

Fortunately, I've got a range of the hydraulic lift arms which I bought in the earlier experiments. Once the weather improves, I'm going to attach a couple of 10KG force lift arms to both axes of the solar array and see if that helps reduc rattling in high winds. I think that it was the rattling that managed to loosen the attachment bolt, so some damping should help.

I'll update once I've tried it ouit

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