PV Solar Trackers

INNOVATIONS: AUTONOMOUS TRACKERS AND SHADOW PROGRAM

Autonomous trackers vs grid failures

The new ADES solar tracker makes all its movements through a battery system that provides the necessary voltage and current for its appropriate functioning.

Thanks to our experience in the field, we have detected the need to isolate solar trackers from the grid. This solution guarantees the protection from disturbances of the electrical grid (voltage drops, peaks etc.) that destabilize the trackers.

Besides reducing the required electrical devices facing the AC systems, this system allows us to undertake the task of putting into service and maintenance with gather simplicity, implying a reduction of the costs and of the electrical failures due to external factors.
The system is designed to have two days autonomy, providing an independence of the grid isolating of the possible disturbances and providing higher security of the installation to keep the trackers on alert even in case of the network failure (storms, winds ....).

SolarFarm: shadows simulation program

SOLARFARM provides a graphical 3D space that allows analyzing and optimizing photovoltaic parks designed with ADES Solar Trackers. The optimization process helps to obtain higher production facing lower occupancy of the land. The application lets you introduce the actual state of the topography of the land giving the higher accuracy in the shadows prediction.

The program simulates a model which gives projections of shadows in real time, calculating all possible interferences of the sun beams and the different elements (ADES Solar Trackers, buildings or obstacles existing in the installation). These interferences are treated in a very visual way, through a series of colours and geometric shapes. SOLARFARM marks exactly where the problem is.

On the other hand, the program allows us to study the daily behaviour of the shadows of each individual tracker. With this information you will predict with extreme detail which trackers will have a higher production and explore possible solutions for the trackers which may suffer more shadows.

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WHAT IS SOLAR TRACKER?

Solar tracking is a widely-applied proven technology that increases solar park production by directing photovoltaic or concentrated photovoltaic to follow the sun along its path from dawn until dusk, capturing the maximum solar radiation for the longest time possible.

Effect of the tracker on the efficiency of the inverter

Solar trdackers make a positive impact on the total gain of the whole system, causing the inverter to work as much time as possible at a better level of performance.

WORKING WITH ADES: Customer Service

ADES offers the maximum level of consultation available in the marketplace from a Solar Tracker manufacturer point of view :

Solar plant design

Customers enjoy the advice of ADES technical staff for the design of the plant [implantation of the trackers on the land]

Logistics and schedules

A realistic and reliable planning schedule is determined between the customer and ADES in order to guarantee deliveries and the installation process.

Installation

ADES will always provide a chief installation officer to train your workforce and guarantee the quality installation of your trackers.

After sales

ADES maintenance programs are available for our customers. The maintenance can be conducted by our team (or authorized team) or by your own labor force trained by ADES experts.

A RANGE OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

Thanks to their unique design, ADES trackers offer an important increase in production compared to a fixed installation panels. 

The objective is to ensure greater freedom and flexibility in the design of your solar project, and increasing output with the greatest speed and technological simplicity possible.

Design Structural Advantages

• Arrangement of module rows at different levels and on two slopes:

  • Improved ventilation for the modules, which increases their efficiency and useful life.

  • Perfect stability of the assembly and improved coefficient of wind resistance for the machine, due to the ‘steps’ design of panel structure.

    • Centre of oscillation [bolt] slightly above the centre of gravity, endowing the tracker with greater stability.

    • Guaranteed stability even in conditions in which the protection systems fails due to gusts of wind of over 65 mph (30 m/s), as demonstrated by tension and fatigue resistance studies carried out on each component.

Bigger is better

Compared to solar park designs utilizing smaller trackers, using ADES solar trackers for your project allows:

• Reduction of the number of trackers for the same level of power.

• Rapid assembly and start-up by reducing the number of machines to install.

• Minimization of the space occupied by shadow, with the elliptic tracker form.

• Significant savings on infrastructure costs [foundations, wiring, land, fencing, service roads, ditches, etc]

• Reduction in voltage drops due to minimized number of trackers and distances between trackers.

• Important reduction of the whole life maintenance cost of your solar park.

Tracking system

The procedure is carried out by electronic card that performs the astronomic calculation of orientation, depending on the geographic location of the tracker. The program contemplates the tracker “lying down” during the night and in gale force winds as a protective measure and to avoid the theft of panels.

Traction clamp: ADES exclusive technology (patented)

Solar trackers perform step-by-step movements and spend more time closed down than actually in action, making it necessary to use a negative brake.

This system reduces the maintenance requirements of the tracker by eliminating the motor reducers and using the pure tangential force maximizing the tracker’s energetic performance.

Thus, instead of braking, the tractor clamp increases the reliability of the system by sliding, thereby guaranteeing that the system will be more profitable.
 

Communications and Monitoring Systems:

Comprehensive solution, information, remote control

In the solar parks there are many elements that need to be controlled (trackers, inverters, counters, security cameras). Understanding the complexity of the process, ADES offers control system which provides real-time information of the status of the solar trackers, production and allow remote control of the system.

PRODUCTS UNDER PATENTS