Solar Concentrator

[sam_89]

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

[MasterBlaster]

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

[kenssurplus]

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

[Jeff Pearson]

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

[Peter Kiproff]

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