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Thanks for your comments! FWIW, part of the benefit I see for this system and the way I use the van, is to actually free up space for gear storage. I used to have flat mounted panels that filled almost all the space between my 2 roof top fans to keep up with my energy demands, and now I have...

For anyone in the LA area, we are going to have our tracker on display at the CA Overland and Powersports Show at the Pomona Fairplex this weekend March 16-17. Hope to see some of you there!

Yes! We use a simple wind anemometer to automatically stow the panels if the wind gets too high. They would also automatically stow if the vehicle starts moving (forgetting to switch it off), and also automatically stow at sunset, and deploy automatically at sunrise as long as its in the...

No problem, thanks for your replies. For trailers and other applications that need something lighter weight, we have a single axis tracking system as well. We use the same panels shown here, which are 4.5kg, and thanks to the much simpler mechanism, a 400W system would be ~17kg (2 Zamp 190W...

Thanks for your feedback! The weight is a bit misleading right now, that is the weight of our prototype system, and there is a lot of room for optimization. Plus most of it is in the base , and with roof rack integration, which we are working on, would make the increase over a common safari...

@Ozarker can you share how much energy it takes to run your AC system over a day? The numbers are from modelling each system using a well established Python library, pvlib. I have cross checked these predictions against other well known sources like PVWatts from NREL. I have also been able to...

Hello Everyone! I am looking for some feedback on a new solar tracking system I have designed and built for my Sprinter van. The idea has been discussed before, but to my knowledge this is the first system ever built that will track the sun in 2 axis automatically, and fold down flat to the...