Jamie.sanders
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stay with me, I'm just throwing out my thoughts but.
I was playing with the solar calculator looking at the best angle for year round, my results were:
Summer, 70 degrees
Winter, 40 degrees
best year round angle 55 degrees.
I understand 55 is half way between 70 and 40, I get that, splitting the difference to work as well as possible during both seasons, basically
robbing the same amount of performance from both winter and summer. (both are 15 degrees from the perfect angle) but...
if you factor in that in the summer here in Arkansas the number of hours of full sunlight available to generate electricity is 5.29 in the summer
and 3.88 in the winter, so in the summer you have 1.4 more hours of good sun. so...
wound it not be better to angle the panels more toward the winter angle to get optimum sun in the winter since you get more hours
of sun in the summer which would help compensate for not as good of an angle? or am I missing something?
I understand 55 degrees basically robs a bit of performance equally from the winter and summer angles, but would it
be better to rob more from summer since you get more sun hours in the summer? so angle the panels something like 50 degrees?
I was playing with the solar calculator looking at the best angle for year round, my results were:
Summer, 70 degrees
Winter, 40 degrees
best year round angle 55 degrees.
I understand 55 is half way between 70 and 40, I get that, splitting the difference to work as well as possible during both seasons, basically
robbing the same amount of performance from both winter and summer. (both are 15 degrees from the perfect angle) but...
if you factor in that in the summer here in Arkansas the number of hours of full sunlight available to generate electricity is 5.29 in the summer
and 3.88 in the winter, so in the summer you have 1.4 more hours of good sun. so...
wound it not be better to angle the panels more toward the winter angle to get optimum sun in the winter since you get more hours
of sun in the summer which would help compensate for not as good of an angle? or am I missing something?
I understand 55 degrees basically robs a bit of performance equally from the winter and summer angles, but would it
be better to rob more from summer since you get more sun hours in the summer? so angle the panels something like 50 degrees?