You probably know how solar works and its is a little more technical that just pointing panels to the sun. Roof installations typically are fixed and lose around 35% of there power, or there is a lower production when you need it the most.
The following video was to illustrate the dual solar array quandary and if it was worse to have fixed solar panels, or have two fixed arrays, one for summer and one for winter.
Spoiler alert! 50% difference!
Shading is also shown with the help of our husky.
While this was in 2022, we did a update to shading which was refractive shading in 2024. in plain English, that means that indirect light effects and minor deviation in the panels using new half cell panels.
I had took documents of the power difference with a very slight difference in angle, this was around 30% difference in the current performance difference.
To give you some idea, the panels were casually aligned.
The main difference being light from 90 degrees with partial blocking over 2 meters away from the panel without shading on the panel itself.
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