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Non-Tech : Alternative energy
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To: Triffin who wrote (2034)8/27/2005 2:13:22 PM
From: Bill on the Hill  Read Replies (1) of 16955
 
Hey Trif,

I am building a solar concentrator from an old 10' satellite dish. The tracker is very simple. Servos move the dish by microswitches that are solar activated. By shading the switches they activate and deactivate once they heat up. The switches use the available solar energy which gets greater as the microswitch aligns the dish to the sun.

Have not figured out the collector array yet. This link you posted may help me find the answer to that.

Thanks, I will dig deep into it.

Bill
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