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Old 09-07-2024, 01:03 PM   #122 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
After more testing my approximately 15 degrees tilt neted up to 10% more daily power. That's still only like $4 or $5 per panel more per year.
During the summer I may not get little if any more power. From the added tilt.
AeroStealth lives north of Las Cruces, and he always observes reduced output from his PV array because of summer temps.
A neighbor where I live had a solar-tracker mount for his PVs, which had two degrees of freedom, vertical and horizontal. as it followed from sunrise to sunset. Same deal with summer performance.
Mine were fixed at 33-degrees for my latitude, at true-south, and also fell off in the summer.
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