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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 191, 2020
2020 The 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environment Engineering (REEE 2020)
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| Article Number | 01003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Solar and Photovoltaic Systems | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019101003 | |
| Published online | 24 September 2020 | |
Solar Panel Tracking System Using Optical Fiber
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, UTCN, Basis of Electronics Department, Optoelectronics Group, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
* Corresponding author: Lorant.Szolga@bel.utcluj.ro
In this work we present a new method for the measurement of the light intensity for the solar panels with dual axis tracking system by using optical fiber to conduct the direct sunlight to the light dependent resistors (LDR). With this method we keep away the influence of the temperature on the photoresistors which measure the light intensity. The measurements with the proposed system was done at the same time and place with a classical system with the same configuration, but with the LDRs directly exposed to the sunlight. The results highlighted that, in cloudy conditions when the sunlight is not in direct path on the solar panels and suffers a high scattering, the optical fiber system is more efficient compared to the classical one with differences up to 18% in the generated power.
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