Solar Concentrator

Started by sam_89 · 26 March 2013 · 5 posts · last reply 13 April 2013

1. sam_89

   #1 · 26 Mar 2013

   hello,
   
   My final year project is "Producing energy using Solar Concentrators",so please If you can help me finding books and resources to design the most efficient solar concentrator profiles and design a mechanism for solar trackers.
   
   thank you

2. MasterBlaster

   #2 · 28 Mar 2013

   Try youtube. There were a lot of videos about this in the past.

3. kenssurplus

   #3 · 28 Mar 2013

   Hi
   
   Redrok has a GIANORMOUS site collecting info, pics, and designs on many different types.
   Red Rock Energy Heliostats
   Also, Cerebral Meltdown has various sun trackers / heliostat controllers based off of an arduino microcontroller.
   The Cerebral Forum - Index

4. Jeff Pearson

   #4 · 12 Apr 2013

   Patent US4275950 - Light-guide lens - Google Patents
   Stan Meyer's light guide lens. Ive been meaning to have a look at that one

5. Peter Kiproff

   #5 · 13 Apr 2013

   Hi Sam
   Here is a link to the bits & pieces we made for our Solar Heliostats we call
   " Sunflowers " they reflect to a common focal point. it's kinda long our part starts about 45 min into this.
   
   20120906 - Sunflower Heliostat presentation by Kym & Peter - YouTube
   
   Peter