Go to Home Depot or any hardware store. Buy a bundle of 2 ft long grade stakes. Drive a grade stake in each location you think you want to mount the solar panel. Starting at sunrise. Every two hours, measure the shadow length of the grade stake, and the angle. Enter the reading on a notepad for use later using a pictograph drawing for each stake. At sunset, compare the day's readings.
The path with greatest sun exposure will have the shortest shadows. At sunset On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 9:25 PM Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:12:27 -0400 Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > I think I will just sit in the yard all day and take notes with pen and > > paper. > > Direct observation is a great way to do it. You do not, however, have to > sit in the yard the entire day. You should already have some idea of how > the shadows progress across your yard throughout the year, but there are > ways to quickly show you that information in a readily understandable > form. > > ============================================================= > Y'all are making things waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too complicated!!!!!! > > Why reinvent the wheel when it's already been done? > ============================================================= > > What you need is a chart like the attached picture (without the > background blue and green) printed on a clear transparency. Then you go > around your yard, face south, and look through the transparency to see at > each spot what the objects which will block the sun are at that location. > > See: > > > https://www.permaculturenews.org/2015/10/23/charting-the-suns-motion-in-relation-to-your-home-and-permaculture-site/ > Charting The Sun's Motion In Relation To Your Home And Permaculture Site > > > https://www.milkwood.net/2015/06/01/design-basics-mapping-the-sun-on-your-site/ > Design Basics: Mapping the Sun on your Site > > https://www.suncalc.org > > https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/ > NOAA Solar Calculator > Find Sunrise, Sunset, Solar Noon and Solar Position for Any Place on Earth > > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
