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Originally Posted by aerohead
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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That was same day comparison to other panels.
Trackers explode the price of an install. Talking 2x to 4x more money for around 50% more power and that assuming the trackers last as long as the panels which they don't, they'll be the first thing to break.
I thought only the government can afford to blow money like that.
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