July 27: Conduit going in on the north array.
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July 27: Testing the north array.
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July 27: The north array gets tested.
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July 27: Lots of wire, going nowhere. Batteries are there to
power the motors before the wiring gets done.
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July 27: Testing the range of motion of the cconduit
and ground
wires.
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July 29: The combiner boxes being prepped for installation.
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July 29: Combiner and power supply boxes.
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July 29: Pulling wires through the conduit. Went through
1000' of #6, and not done yet.
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July 29: Mounting the box on the south array.
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July 29: South power supply box wiring.
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July 29: Wires ready to be set.
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July 30: Testing the tracking ability on the south array.
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July 30: A quick view of the underside again, note the small
gaps between the panels, if the sun is lined up right, these should
cast a clear stripe of sun on the ground. See next photo for the
result.
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July 30: The resulting shadows... this shows (proves?) that
the array is lined up perpendicular to the sun. Cool, the auto tracking
works. About now Michael at Array
Technologies is saying, "Yea, we knew that, what did you expect?"
:-)
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July 30: A view back at the
house with the array tracking.
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July 31: And one more shot at
the late afternoon sun, maximum twist on the array.
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August 1: And, of course
we have to have the early morning shot too.
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