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1. SOLAR PATH FINDER PRICE HOW TO
2. SOLAR PATH FINDER PRICE INSTALL
3. SOLAR PATH FINDER PRICE SOFTWARE
4. SOLAR PATH FINDER PRICE PROFESSIONAL
5. SOLAR PATH FINDER PRICE SERIES

With a grid-tie solar power system the decision of how much solar to install is up to you. What are your expectations? What do you want to get out of the investment? Often times, decisions turn out to be more than just about getting the lowest installation or levelized cost (the ratio of how much you are spending over the amount of energy being produced). Your intentionsįirst of all it’s important that the installation company appreciates why it is you are going solar. Installers can make conservative assumptions of site specific parameters such as cable runs, installation hours, structural integrity, and so on, and may end up over-pricing, or performing poorly in general. What’s in a solar site assessment?Īs with any trade, conducting a site assessment is needed to go from an estimate to a detailed and final quote. A solar site assessment is critical for you to be able to properly design a solar power system and to produce an expectation for its future performance. If you know of one share it.It’s quite simple to connect a solar power system to an existing utility-connected building in Alberta, but you still need a solid design and installation plan, as well as an expectation of how your system is going to perform, technically and financially, and on the short term and long term. I am sure there are lots of other clever devices and methods out there.

SOLAR PATH FINDER PRICE PROFESSIONAL

The SunEye definitely does what it says on the tin – and for those companies wanting a professional tool to quickly and accurately evaluate shade, it is defiantly worth a look, but I suspect many will be put off by the price. I have been testing one for the last couple of weeks (kindly lent by the Solar Design Company). The SunEye from Solmetric is a dedicated measuring device that incorporates a calibrated fisheye camera with electronic tilt and compass sensors to quickly capture and analyse site shading. These can all be used as a means to record the shade scene – though it isn’t a totally straightforward procedure and may be affected by lens distortions and in many cases will need to be accompanied by site measurements to ensure that the various object’s elevations and azimuths are accurately translated onto the sun-path chart. Fish eye lenses are also available for standard cameras and even for smart phones.

SOLAR PATH FINDER PRICE SOFTWARE

Various camera attachments and software packages are available that allow simple recording and stitching of multiple images into a panorama.

SOLAR PATH FINDER PRICE HOW TO

I used to have plans on how to build one of these – but have looked and frustratingly can’t find them - but if anyone has anything they can share… The solar site selector is probably one of the best known commercial products. Various other tracing tools are available – from homemade devices to commercial products. It’s a simple to use device that reflects a skyline image onto a sun-path chart which allows the user to trace the skyline. The solar pathfinder was the first solar site survey I bought – more than 10 years ago now - and I still use it. All that remains is then transferring this recording onto the standard MCS sun-path diagram. This allows the user to trace the horizon with a cross hair shown on the phone screen, with the result then recorded and displayed as a shade scene on a sun-chart. Perhaps the best known for specific solar shade recording is the iPV app. There are a number of apps on the market that enable shade panoramas to be recorded.

These then need to be transferred onto the standard sun-path diagram, as shown in image 2. Once on site, the procedure is to measure the azimuth and elevation angles for each of the obstacles along your horizon. Elevation tools vary: from theodolites and laser devices, to iPhone apps and home-made devices such as the one shown in image 1. The tools required include the standard chart, a compass and some device to measure the elevation of the object in question.

SOLAR PATH FINDER PRICE SERIES

Probably the cheapest method to record the line will be to draw it directly from a series of measurements on site. This article is solely about the various methods that can be used to record the shade line in the first place. NOTE: This article isn’t about the process for determining the shade factor from a sun-path recording (I will cover that another day). There are a number of different ways of doing this … and this article describes a selection of them. In order to better quantify the predicted output of a proposed PV array, a requirement of the new Solar PV Guide will be to record a horizon or shade line onto a sun-path diagram.