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What are trackers and what are they

The solar tracker is a mechanical device that directs and continually modifying the surface of the panel PV compared to the sun. A kind of mechanical sunflowers, in short, which follows the sun in its path
during the day to absorb the maximum amount of solar energy as possible.

Even then the tracker's task is to optimize the performance of photovoltaic panels. Tracker, quite simply, is the base on which you install solar panels. Generally, the pursuers are classified according to the number of degrees of freedom: one or two degrees of freedom.

trackers with one degree of freedom to rotate around an axis.
can rotate, for example, about the axis East-West. Trackers are easier to achieve. Rotate twice a year (even manually) towards horizon. The increased production of electricity in this case does not exceed 10%.

There are also trackers that revolve around the axis north-south. These trackers follow the movement of the sun during the day and year. Their rotation is not dependent on the height of the sun above the horizon, rather than by its position in the sky.

These trackers are suitable for low-latitude countries such as Italy. Because they are subject to a rotating motion on a daily basis (usually dawn and dusk hours central the day), these trackers are built-in mechanisms for automatic operation.

Finally, there are trackers that revolve around the axis zenithnadir. Again the rotation mechanism is automatic. The increase in electricity production is about 25%. Trackers with two degrees of freedom instead of using two simultaneous axes of rotation. Often they are mounted one on
of trackers. The increase in electricity production can reach about 40%.

Major useful lives of the followers are in the course of implementing the so-called solar farms, large plants that is installed on the ground, where we must try to make the greatest possible surface area available to produce as much energy as possible.