[RE-wrenches] Residential tracker that has horizontal axis in east-west orientation? Problem appears solved
Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
offgridsolar at sti.net
Thu Sep 5 11:11:12 EDT 2019
Thanks Chris for the follow up. These were HZLA'a right? Kyle and his Dad
Jeff are great for Wattsun Support! These units have the manual track mode
also, right?
Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
"we go where powerlines don't"
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 07:52:11 -0400, Christopher Warfel
<cwarfel at entech-engineering.com> wrote:
> I wanted to follow up on the issue I had previously posted.
>
> We installed two ArrayTech trackers at different sites in the
> unconventional east-west orientation. One worked well and one operated
> so that it was not facing south very often. Kyle was able to guide me
> through some troubleshooting and it appears the problem is fixed.
>
> The tracker that worked properly had the sensor on the west end of the
> array and was pointed east. The tracker not working as expected had the
> sensor on the east end of the array and was pointed west. We swapped
> the east/west sensor wires in the controller, and reduced the ghost
> tracking setting. This caused the tracker to work properly.
>
>
> Chris
>
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