Tracking Parabolic Barbecue, the Wave of the Future.
Intro: Tracking Parabolic Barbecue, the Wave of the Future.
This video will hopefully demystify tracking for solar dishes a little.
Please tell me what you think and please also make a better version.
Especially useful would be a 3d version of this video.
Start planning your tracking solar accumulating barbecue today and write the instructable tomorrow!
Please tell me what you think and please also make a better version.
Especially useful would be a 3d version of this video.
Start planning your tracking solar accumulating barbecue today and write the instructable tomorrow!
15 Comments
jm1820 12 years ago
1/ Have your axis of rotation pointing north south, and tilted to your latitude (so it is parallel with the earths axis of rotation)
AND
2/ manually tilt the parabola on THAT axis, throughout the year (more horizontal in summer, and more vertical in winter, and parallel at the equinoxes).
AND
3/ As well as the 15° per hour daily rotation.
You are missing step 2
gaiatechnician 12 years ago
Your comment on how to point the parabola is correct and and well written.
Thanks
I have changed my thinking a bit since the video. I now think a partial dish can be made and counterweighted so that it can work through the summer and the winter.
Brian
static 12 years ago
gaiatechnician 12 years ago
This gives various non motorized options that most people have not seen.
There is winstons compound parabolic trough, the cusp, and several clam shaped troughs to choose from. I found the pdf earlier this year. It is based on research from about 1960 up to about 2000 Tapas Kumar Mallick is the guy who did the pdf and it is related to his work on concentrated pv collectors.
But it is totally useful for thermal collection too.
Brian gaiatechnicianatyahoodotcom
fishhead455 16 years ago
gaiatechnician 16 years ago
mike7 15 years ago
gaiatechnician 15 years ago
mike7 15 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt
The confusion may have entered because of information from the same page. I live in Calgary, Alberta (51 degrees North)
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Example: an observer at 50° latitude (either north or south) will see the Sun 63° 26’ above the horizon at noon on the longest day of the year, but only 16° 34’ the shortest day. The difference is 2ε = 46° 52’, and so ε = 23° 26’.
(90° - 50°) + 23.4394° = 63.4394° when measuring angles from the horizon (90° - 50°) - 23.4394° = 16.5606°
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arhodes18 15 years ago
gaiatechnician 15 years ago
arhodes18 15 years ago
GorillazMiko 16 years ago
I think this is great, and that you should post the better version (if you have one).
;-)
gaiatechnician 16 years ago
I have diy simple tracking pretty well pinned down now too.
http://www.youtube.com/user/gaiatechnician has all the videos, latest ones are about DIY tracking.
"please tell me what you think and please make a better version" is all about peer review. I can do a million successful experiments (or failures) but if nobody else does the same experiment, it is not science and regardless of my personal success, it is an abject failure. So, you see, your joke is on all of us.
As far as i am concerned I have proved the concepts but of course, it is meaningless.
gaiatechnician 16 years ago