Solar Tracker Using Arduino

Description

Contributor: 
Sajid Shaikh

 

Arduino Board

We all know during summer heat is more intense because sun rays are perpendicular to the earth surface and hence the solar energy is concentrated over a small region.

·         This can be applied to solar cell as well viz. the power output from a solar cell is directly proportional to sine of angle between the cell surface and light rays.

·         So it’s clear that the power output from a solar cell will be maximum when it is facing the sun i.e. the angle between its surface and sun rays is 900.

·         Thus the setup by which the above objective is achieved is known as solar tracker.

·         Solar trackers are continually being employed in practice to get max efficiency.

·         In this project we will design a simplest single axis solar tracker and its concept can be expanded to make a full fledged dual axis solar tracker.

·         We are making single axis for sake of simplicity and better understanding.

Components:

Freeduino board (Atmega 328)

Freeduino Board

Features:

Microcontroller

ATmega328

Operating Voltage

5V

Input Voltage (recommended)

7-12V

Input Voltage (limits)

6-20V

Digital I/O Pins

14 (of which 6 provide PWM output)

Analog Input Pins

6

DC Current per I/O Pin

40 mA

DC Current for 3.3V Pin

50 mA

Flash Memory

32 KB (ATmega328) of which 0.5 KB used by bootloader

SRAM

2 KB (ATmega328)

EEPROM

1 KB (ATmega328)

Clock Speed

16 MHz

 

 

Circuit Diagram

Code

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Comments (14)

plz give me the list of

Submitted by rajput sanjay on Tue, 19/02/2013 - 15:19.

plz give me the list of component as well as the circuit diagram , because i am going to do a project on it. plz reply fast as possible

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I have included everything in

Submitted by sajid6300shaikh on Fri, 22/02/2013 - 17:33.

I have included everything in the tutorial.
Check on the right panel.

All you need is
1. Development board: arduino

2. LDR

3. servo motor

and other misc items like wires, connectors, etc.

to make this project i also

Submitted by rajput sanjay on Mon, 25/02/2013 - 03:29.

to make this project i also need PCB circuit deasign and PCB layout  so plz help me..........

 

No need of any pcb design, I

Submitted by sajid6300shaikh on Sat, 02/03/2013 - 19:54.

No need of any pcb design, I used freeduino development board and hooked up everything to it.

You can contact me

Submitted by sajid6300shaikh on Sat, 02/03/2013 - 19:56.

You can contact me on:
sajid6300shaikh@gmail.com

coz I don't get any notification when you leave comment here.

what will be the cost of this

Submitted by sachin_01 on Fri, 01/03/2013 - 14:54.

what will be the cost of this project can u tell me plz.

 

It would be under 1500/-

Submitted by sajid6300shaikh on Sun, 03/03/2013 - 22:17.

It would be under 1500/-

It can be made under Rs.

Submitted by sajid6300shaikh on Sat, 02/03/2013 - 20:49.

It can be made under Rs. 2000/-
You can contact me on sajid6300shaikh@gmail.com
as I don't receive any notification when you post comment.

thankyou sir

Submitted by sachin_01 on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 13:26.

thankyou sir

Good to go

Submitted by darling.com on Thu, 07/03/2013 - 16:23.
Good to go

is this project kit available

Submitted by sunnyjacob0000 on Sun, 10/03/2013 - 13:40.

is this project kit available in market

can u tell me total cost about this

Hi,i dont know about

Submitted by sajid6300shaikh on Sun, 10/03/2013 - 20:11.

Hi,
i dont know about market.
but you can contact me if you want one.
ph no. 8446079338

Uploading the program.I

Submitted by sajid6300shaikh on Thu, 18/04/2013 - 14:56.

Uploading the program.
I forgot to add an important part, to burn the program (called sketches in arduino) using USB cable refer following detailed article on

http://www[dot]ladyada[dot]net/learn/arduino/lesson1[dot]html

 I  want servo.h file 

Submitted by haridini on Fri, 14/06/2013 - 13:18.

 I  want servo.h file