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Abstract--- Solar energy is the most abundant source of pointed at or near the sun works best and can increase the
energy for all forms of life. The sunlight is not used to the effectiveness of such equipment over any fixed position at the
maximum extent in an ordinary solar power system and in cost of additional system complexity. The tracker will enable
order to take the highest potential of the system, Solar the panel to follow the path of the sun and produce more
tracking and cleaning are employed. This project aims at power as it consumes more sunlight. Concentrations,
increasing the efficiency of the solar panel which leads to a especially in solar cell applications, require a high degree of
reduction in plant output and overall plant efficiency. accuracy to ensure that the concentrated sunlight is directed
Concatenating the concept of automation and cost- precisely to the powered device
effectiveness leads to better utilization of solar power. When
The manual cleaning has disadvantaged liked the risk of
there is a change in the intensity of light, the PV panel is staff accidents and damage to the panels, movement
automatically tilted accordingly to achieve a maximum difficulties, poor maintenance etc. The automatic dust
intensity of light. The cleaning system is used to remove the
cleaning system of solar panels have taken to overcome the
accumulated dust on its surface on a regular basis and difficulties arise in the traditional cleaning and also produces
maintain the solar panel output which is executed by a robotic an effective cleaning and avoids the irregularities in the
system which could have the nozzle from which the water is
productivity due to the deposition of dust. The efficiency of
sprinkled on the panel and thus the panel gets cleaned. the solar panel also calculated after cleaning the surface for
Keywords--- Solar Panel, Photoresistor, DC gear motor, one day, one week and a month.
Display, Wiper motor, LM 324, Battery, Timer.
II. PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY
The most blooming and convenient source of renewable
I. INTRODUCTION energy is solar energy, which can be harnessed by
CONDITION sensor for tracking the sun. This system helps to generate
more energy in the Indian climatic condition and helps India
1. If LDR 1 is greater than LDR 2, it display EAST
to become superpower country in 2030.
direction.
2. If LDR 2 is greater than LDR 1, it display EAST
direction. 60
VII. CONCLUSION 50
The aim of this paper was the movement of a motor by
signals from light sensing circuit when the intensity of light 40
is maximum, which has been successfully achieved because
30
of a combination of tracking and cleaning system as a single
system.For a fixed solar panel, the efficiency of receiving 20
solar energy is only 39% while for a tracking panel is 70%.
The IC 324 drives the motor in the direction sensed by the 10
light dependent resistor.
A mechanism of sun tracking with automatic cleaning of 0
PV modules is presented and cleaning mechanism of the PV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Stationary Proposed
modules consists of sliding brushes, which slides over the
module and cleans on PV panel and makes a rotation of 180
degrees, in a day. A Sun tracker is designed employing the Efficiency of Solar Power in Watts
new principle of using small solar cells to function as self-
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