Orenburg state university

Following Sun

Aleksandr Nemaltcev, 4^th year student of OSU Electrical Power Engineering Faculty, has designed a compact system designed for Sun moving monitoring — sun tracker. It will improve the construction of solar batteries.

A tracker’s engine turns the platform after the Sun using a special control system. At sunset the platform is turned to the West. In situation when the light is not enough for energy generation the platform turns to the East for waiting the first streams of Sun. In spite of small size and simplicity the tracker can serve as a base for more complicated equipment and be used, for example, in solar power station.

According to tracker test results the student has gathered data characterizing its operation (temporal and technical factors) and made comparison for calculation of energy output during Sun cyclicity. In the future this data will be a base for graduation thesis where Aleksandr will study in details operation of solar battery based of his invention.