I'm glad KZfaq recommended this to me

I sincerely hope the algorithm is kind to you and this video gains traction - the idea and creation of the panel system as well as the production quality is fantastic!

Beautiful project. Just call it art if you don't think it fulfills the requirements! I'm sure many people would love one on their windowsill just to see it open in the morning and follow the sun all day.

algorithm gods need to blow your channel up, this video is stunning !!

Love the design with more cables and less pcbs. allways reminds me of the old guidance computers you see in cold war era missiles

Very nice project! As an electronics engineer I am jealous of your mechanical design. Only think I would suggest is using thinner wires for your digital signals. I for example use wires from CAT6 cables and they would be much thinner than yours. Thanks for the video!

This is exactly what I want to do: constructing and developing new things. Thank you for the video

I can't believe you didn't include a time-lapse of it actually working and tracking the sun!

Very nice design! I loved the iterative work that you did and took the time to share. Thanks for sharing!

"I think it is possible to determine the elevation angle using GPS location and time." GOOD JOB!

pls algorithm gods this guy is amazing pls help him grow

You could increase the efficiency of the light sensors by reducing them to 1, placing it in a tube pointing at the ideal solar pane (so that only if directly pointing at the sun does it directly 'see' the sun getting most light'), and letting software figure out what direction the sun is in by AB testing going up and down and left and right seeing if more light is received. You can control for cloud providing shade by comparing to charge levels, since light will fall off fast for the sensor but not for the panels if the sun is off ideal axis. Why this is better is because its self-calibrating once the software is written, and you only need 1 switch. Heck, you could get rid of the switches entirely by tilting the panels 5 or so degrees back, away from the sun, and measuring the voltage provided by each panel, and let the software move towards whatever panel provides the most power until the increase of one panel is negated by the other panels losing more collective power (from overturning, passing by the ideal point). just before this point would be directly aimed at the sun with the most efficient panels. This would even correct for one panel being damaged or old, it would automatically prioritize the point that provides the most power.

Absolutely amazing stuff! Can't wait to see more of your designs

This is fantastic! Amazing quality, earned a new sub

A single Sunpower Maxeon C60 5x5" cell is 3.6 watts and can be split into 3 and connected in series to minimize the cutting loss while tripling the voltage (3x0.6v at peak power output) for a bit easier conversion. The cell is also copper backed with no front contacts adding to the active area and allowing it to be much more rugged than normal solar cells. I've successfully ran these cells through a desktop laminator for waterproofing. A booster at 80% eff can then deliver around 2.88w from it. Two such cells can do a full 5w charging. If two cells are split you get 3.6v at peak power output from a 6s configuration. The hard part is the 1.9 amps current output which is double what the cheaper micro boosters can handle. High current, low voltage is not ideal for a boosting charge controller either. It is however the most efficient you can get in terms of power per area and these cells are very popular in folding camping chargers as the angle of incidence is not important with them. The cells are antireflective and very good at collecting light at less than perfect angles.

great stuff dude, keep going. great design. May the youtube gods bless you

Having a huge version of this would just insane to me

Wow, fantastic design and engineering! Excellent video as well. Keep these coming, I'm subscribed!

This is seriously neat af!!!!! Amazing content

Woow! Such a cool project!

Quite good approach ❤

I enjoyed each moment watching this video, you are really amazing man! keep going!

Amazing job! Great work!

Absolutely incredible. I’m just getting into robotics and Arduino and seeing cool projects like these is inspirational.

Great video to teach junior engineers in looking for problems

Great invention and great ideas. I'm proud of you.

Absolutely Amazeballs!!! What a great video and a great build!!

Real cool looking project

Great project! I really like the step by step video concept. You've got a new subscriber and I wish you many more.

Keep them coming .good content

Awesome engineering! Very enjoyable to watch

Such a nice build! Thank you very much for sharing this awesome video

Wow, what a great little device you created! 🤩 Excellent presentation. Excellent work. Really lovin' it! 🥰

Finally something cool to watch

Love when youtube recommends me smaller channels!

Thanks youtube for recommendation ❤😊

Great work congrats

Ah you Superman Love It Sincerely Ejike

It is a next level vedio, Great work and effort, may your channel grow big and you earned another sub

Great video!

seen less than a minute and i immediately want to build that mechaical device 😍

That looks Cool!!! but so many things can be simplified like the need of the slip ring could have been eliminated and just programmed so that after it hit 360 it rotatedin th opposite direction to track the sun, still it look super cool

Maybe we can buy this Solar charger soon. I will buy instantly 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

0:27 such a beautiful view

Бесподобно! Нигде такого ещё не видел!

Amazing! Great engineering!

Would love to see a video where you compare the power usage of the controller and motors to the gain in power generation that they provide. When space is at a premium, solar tracking makes more and more sense

Awesome video

AMAZING video topic!!!!

Make this man a multi million sub youtuber NOW!

12:22 transition caught me off guard

Best introduction.

Awesome man!

I love videos just like this, 3d printing and engineering ❤

Very nice and inspirational

Wow! Thankyou for this project! You’ve gained a subscriber :-)

Very nice!!! Great Job!!

this is amazing!

Great design. Actually we are talkin about the idea a year ago and then put it aside... Nice to see someone actually make one!

Bruh i swear continue uploading you'll be one of big youtubers

So nice!

This looks like something from a sci-fi game, very cool!

as a scaleable design say you make it designed to drop from over 500 ft even 1000 a lil parachute with a meshtastic on the bottom integrated but also connectable external antenna 📡 🛰️ wires then you fire whole thing into sky with fiberglass reinforced PVC pipe air cannon and ill need at least 10 so they can be launched from SUV self right and automated communication with eachother drive around town deploying them as a test for a mars mission making lines of valuable communication that's self sufficient in no time with remote protection of it's hide mode via long range repeaters communication to avoid detected storms etc

Wow I got to make one but without your overkill Arduino Nano.

I LOVE IT !! 😍

that is the most solarpunk panel ive ever seen!

how do you only have 67subscribers?? this video has the same quailty as ones that people with like 500k make

A common method for sun tracking is to put a pillar between the photo sensors. If the array is misaligned, the pillar casts a shadow on some of the sensors.

I've been wanting to create something like this, that tracks the sun with a mirror or other reflective surface, to get some light into my house in the wintertime

Thanks for the rec KZfaq new sub.

Reminds me of the ones in No Mans Sky game. I have about 4 outside my base. Great to see! Thanks. Laurie. NZ😅

More videos like this❤

Awesome!

excellent😍😍😍

you can reduce the breadboard space if you remove the relay from the module board or even use a mosfet instead

This is *shockingly* cool! Hehe.

Awesome

You need to incorporate a voltage step up circuit to that creation

Are you planning to make the cad available, I liked some of the design features you showed, and id love to see them in more detail

Nice work. Google « n20 long threaded shaft gear motor » for your next iteration. Also you can use current to monitor end of stop I waste of switch’s or Hall effect sensor. Some 3D printers and other products use this technique

Dam bro! Epic! What do you do for a living I have to know?

First time I made solar tracking contraption in Stationeers. I was so proud myself 😅. But it used math formula for calculating solar panels rotation.

Would be great for a system that would protect itself from bad weather like hail.

First of all, this is very good quality content, you deserve a lot. This being said. 4:31 4:31 that’s not 120 degrees and it’s kinda making me mad😂 Jk man, keep it up love your content

Very awesome, would look so sick on a backpack along with the new starlink mini, propper backpack energy. I was wondering how much it weighed? I am gonna make one for sure

Cool!!!

This is an awesome Idea! I love it and I am curious, would it be possible to build a similar platform that would track a satellite? Something you could install a Starlink mini on??

I suggest a battery for both, you can charge devices when the panels are not getting enough light, otherwise the usefulness is really limited.

could you be able to share code and pcb assembly detail ?? This project is very interesting. Thanks for your sharing

It’s like real life space engineers 😂

What software did you use for the animation? 1:01

awesome project. sir which cad program do u use?

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Very cool, a scaled up version would be very interesting. Like four 50 watt panels. Would love that on my boat :D Not sure if 3d printed parts would hold on bigger scale. Maybe aluminum would be an good option?

This video was both entertaining and very informative. However, is it possible to read the voltages of each solar panel and then calculate the best position using the values instead of using 4 photoresistors? This could help reduce the number of parts needed.

What is the voltage and wattage those solar panels make (individually)?

but do you get more energy output when you use some of it for moving the panels or would it be more efficient to just let them lay flat?

Operation Swasti-Tracker is great success!

The lifting mechanism could also have been helped by gearing down your initial input from the servo rather than gearing it up, you have the large gear on the servo which looks about 4:1, you should have had the larger cog on the threaded shaft. Great design though!

How did you get the power from the solar panels? Did you just connect it directly to the battery chargers? If there is space you should use an MPPT chip to get the most power you can out of the solar panels.