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Comment by walrus01

1 day ago

With the cost of panels as cheap as they are these days it makes much more sense to buy more panels rather than spending lots of money on trying to have everything like a perfect 35 degrees south facing angle. Even on a house, if you have a north facing roof, put up a separate string on that side if the budget permits.

This is also why 2-axis and 3-axis tracker mechanisms are rarely seen these days, the cost of foundation/structure to build a thing on a concrete and steel pier that can 'steer' just six 1.65x1.0 meter size panels is extreme. It's like a big sail in wind loading so it takes a lot of steel and structure to resist that.