Yup, as well as the Solar Pathfinder and iPhone and android apps and probably others since I last checked. There's a link in the description below this video to my webpage where I show a bunch of the other ways to do this.
@shazizz Chopping down the trees or trimming is often done as a solution. Unfortunately these are city owned trees and it takes a lot of struggle for permission to cut one down. I would love to though. A change of mindset is needed re trees when the reason is to facilitate solar. A tall tower is also an option that the company I sometimes do solar contracting for has had to do. Those are good suggestions.
You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback! You may also want to watch my other video "Shadow wars/solar site survey Shade Finder tool" where I got carried away and built a faster to use shade finder, though a lot longer to make! I just put a link to it in the description below this video, or you can find it on my channel page.
@shazizz A solar tracker wouldn't help. The problem is that there are trees (or other objects) that come between the solar panels and the sun. So even if a tracker pointed the solar panels directly at the sun, they'd still be pointing at the trees that are blocking the sun. Unless the tracker had legs and moved the solar panels around! Now that would be cool! :-) Failing that, the method in this video tells you whether or not you need to put your solar panel somewhere else.
This is 10 years ago and this video is much appreciated because the fundamental foundation never change. My question is - is there a much more modern tool of these devices you used that can be bought in the market?
I'm not up-to-date on the latest but there are likely apps you can run on an iPhone or an Android phone which will do the same thing. From 10 years ago, see Method 5 on my webpage here rimstar.org/renewnrg/solar_site_survey_shading_location.htm
@@RimstarOrg you're a legend Sir - I was trying to figure out what times of day correspond to an Air Mass of 1.5 ... some things aren't readily Google-able, but they are Rimstar-able.
Good job with this video. The data you collect is dependent on the height of your table. If I wanted to assess that same location at a height of say, 10 feet off the ground, is there an easy way to adjust the numbers?
am doing a DIY solar project and found this very helpful. I had 3 solar companies out for estimates and none had any tools to this kind of site survey, they just said looks like you have enough sun here?/Thanks Dale
Nicely done. However, you should mention keeping the platform reasonably horizontal (level). Also, you don't have to make anything if you use any of the simple plastic protractors for both az and el? I have several left, just lying around and they are about the same size as what you made. Regards P.S. I happen to have a really precision inclinometer from my dad. Nifty toy.
Yup, as well as the Solar Pathfinder and iPhone and android apps and probably others since I last checked. There's a link in the description below this video to my webpage where I show a bunch of the other ways to do this.
@shazizz Chopping down the trees or trimming is often done as a solution. Unfortunately these are city owned trees and it takes a lot of struggle for permission to cut one down. I would love to though. A change of mindset is needed re trees when the reason is to facilitate solar. A tall tower is also an option that the company I sometimes do solar contracting for has had to do. Those are good suggestions.
You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback! You may also want to watch my other video "Shadow wars/solar site survey Shade Finder tool" where I got carried away and built a faster to use shade finder, though a lot longer to make! I just put a link to it in the description below this video, or you can find it on my channel page.
Hi Chris, Glad to hear you like the video. I just watched the time-lapse in your video. It would be interesting to see how they compare. -Steve
@shazizz A solar tracker wouldn't help. The problem is that there are trees (or other objects) that come between the solar panels and the sun. So even if a tracker pointed the solar panels directly at the sun, they'd still be pointing at the trees that are blocking the sun. Unless the tracker had legs and moved the solar panels around! Now that would be cool! :-) Failing that, the method in this video tells you whether or not you need to put your solar panel somewhere else.
Great video even 9 years later. Hope ur well.
This is 10 years ago and this video is much appreciated because the fundamental foundation never change. My question is - is there a much more modern tool of these devices you used that can be bought in the market?
I'm not up-to-date on the latest but there are likely apps you can run on an iPhone or an Android phone which will do the same thing. From 10 years ago, see Method 5 on my webpage here rimstar.org/renewnrg/solar_site_survey_shading_location.htm
@@RimstarOrg Thanks for the reply. May you have more solar vidoe to come
@@RimstarOrg you're a legend Sir - I was trying to figure out what times of day correspond to an Air Mass of 1.5 ... some things aren't readily Google-able, but they are Rimstar-able.
Good job with this video. The data you collect is dependent on the height of your table. If I wanted to assess that same location at a height of say, 10 feet off the ground, is there an easy way to adjust the numbers?
I don't think it makes a difference. After all, we're all at different heights above sea level and yet it works.
You are awesome. Please continue making videos! Very helpful!
Its exactly that i was looking for. Very usefull. Thank You!
Thanks for this. It was very helpful with some uni work.
I can trim my trees and this can help me to see where to trim back and regain my garden sun needs !!
@wizardangel Oh, good idea! I'm glad to hear this will be of use to someone. Thanks.
am doing a DIY solar project and found this very helpful. I had 3 solar companies out for estimates and none had any tools to this kind of site survey, they just said looks like you have enough sun here?/Thanks Dale
Thanks for this, bro! It's very useful and informative!
answered exactly what I was looking for. Thank you much for the video
Excellent, clear and easy to understand ... Thank You
Nicely done. However, you should mention keeping the platform reasonably horizontal (level). Also, you don't have to make anything if you use any of the simple plastic protractors for both az and el?
I have several left, just lying around and they are about the same size as what you made.
Regards
P.S. I happen to have a really precision inclinometer from my dad. Nifty toy.
Thank you! This is wonderful!
Sweet! Thanks a lot for the info!
Ha Ha! You're right. All you need are two potentiometers, one at each axis. :)
Fantastic video, thanks!
millions of thanks.
So simple! Thanks
Thanks.. good explanation!
very helpful......................Sir
Thanks a lot.
thank you!
Until the trees grow taller.
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