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A project log for Open Concentrating PV Solar Tracker Controller

Achieve better than 0.1° sun tracking accuracy with a compass a tilt sensor and a shading beam sun sensor.

ruediger-f-loeckenhoffRuediger F. Loeckenhoff 10/30/2022 at 04:590 Comments

I just ordered 15 pogo pin boards and I ordered all necessary components a few days before. All parts arrived already. So I will be ready to go to build up the first pogo boards and test the tracker boards, once the delivery from PCBWay arrives. I liked the option that allowed me to combine shipping with the order for the assembled boards that I placed before. That spares me a lot of shipping cost.

Ermanno will come to Germany for the Electronica fair and I will meet him for the very first time. Isn't that funny, considering that we have spent so much time together in Skype figuring out the right parts and arrangements?

In any case, on our way to Munich, we will have a lot of time to discuss the further strategy of how to push this board into the Arduino and RasPi community as a standard part to consider. Offering it for a share of the cost and possibly also at PCBWay is a start. But these will only be a few parts to be sold and we will have to test them all. This is not our final goal yet. We need to find a company that decides to make them in quantity and promote them in their shop (maybe with a label: winner of the 2020 hackaday price). Once that happens, the board may be picked up by rebuilders and we are where I wanted to be from the start: 

A unviversal solar tracker controller will be widely available

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