Development Of An Automatic Sun Tracking System On Solar Panels As Electric Power Supplier At Smart Garden
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A solar panel is a device/tool that can convert energy from sunlight into electrical energy. This research aims to design a tool that can help solar panels move in the direction of the sun, determine the energy consumption used to run the tracking system that has been created and choose the output power results of solar panels with the tracking system and the output power of solar panels without a tracking system. This automatic sun tracking system was successfully designed using an Arduino Uno as a microcontroller, an LDR sensor as a light detector, and a servo motor as an actuator or driver of solar panels with a two-axis arrangement, namely the vertical and horizontal axes. The system that has been designed will consume 58.8 Wh of energy during the 7 hours of testing. Through outdoor testing results for five days, the average daily output power on solar panels without tracking is 43.10 W, 47.17 W, 10.06 W, 15.59 W, and 30.81 W, while the average daily output power on solar panels with a tracking system is 53.79 W, 57.27 W, 10.31 W, 16.61 W, and 32.40 W. These results show that using the automatic sun tracking system designed in this research can increase the average output power produced by solar panels.
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