Test Array

After setting inclination to 55 degrees

Up until today (02 August 2022), our test array was inclined at nearly 80 degrees from horizontal. That gave degraded performance. We set it this morning to 55 degrees and saw a large difference. You can see this in the graphs. We'll set it to about 35 degrees in the next few days.

We noticed that a typical sustained measurement of heat harvested was in the region of 630 W/m2. That compares favourably with the maximum possible from just over 1000 W/m2 we measured with an irradiance meter.

Changing the inclination of the array to 35 degrees and increasing the temperature delta should allow us to exceed 700 W/m2.