Looks good. What is your wind MPH threshold for parking the panel?
I am not sure. The range is 0.00 to 4.00. I have it set to 2.00. I have no idea what the wind speed to "setting" conversion is. Last Saturday I had easily 40 mph winds, but I didn't have the anemometer mounted or set up properly, most of the day it was on the ground. I thought for sure this setup was going to tip over. I did see it push up the legs once! But my backyard is somewhat protected with privacy fences from the wind.
Could you share the info for the tracker? Also could you post more pictures of how you did the movable joints? I built a single axis tracker and want to do a double. Thank you for sharing your buil! I really like it, good job!!
I have two 14 inch actuators. For my latitude, the N/S actuator is actually too short! I may have mounted it in a spot where I don't get the most motion. As it is now it does bottom out, and I know already that it is not low enough but also does not go north enough. A couple of ways to fix is to get a longer actuator, 16 or 18 would probably be fine. Or adjust the attachment point up and down seasonally.
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This is the N/S "hinge" (I would not do it this way, I don't really think it is very strong)
On Saturday it was very windy and these loose bolts let the entire panel and mount flop around all crazy.
It is snug now, not tight though.
This seems fine for the E/W "hinge".
Bear in mind, this "system" is probably the most expensive possible way to do it. All this "extruded aluminum" 4040 and 8080, is quite pricey. It does however have ample room for doing it wrong several times while adjusting everything until you get it right, and pretty much no special tools or welding needed.
I did this after seeing the ECO-Worthy kit on amazon for months on end as being "out of stock", and just now I checked, well they have 8 in stock. ???
Take a look at the pictures and you will see that the N/S hinge is significantly more mass than what I made. I just looked at the pictures of the ECO-Worthy kit and I use the exact same hinges on the E/W mount. They bolt through the bar, mine bolt into the 4040 extrusions with 4040 extrusion nuts.