Product Design Specifications

The main product design specifications related to embodiment design are:

• Being a mobile system, it must assure safe movements and statically determined positions;

• Considering the main purpose of the installation, which is the experimental high accuracy use, an increased stiffness of the structure must be accomplished, in order to protect the most sensitive devices equipping the tracker;

• The material will be mainly construction steel; only some specific parts will be machined from alloy steel with proper treatment;

• The tracker is equipped with a PV panel with a surface 1.48×0.67 m2, approx. 1 m2;

• The tracker’s angles у and a must cover the ranges у = -90°.. .+90° and a = 9°.. .67°, set for the specific location of the system;

• Linear actuators must be used for both movements;

• The temperature field on which the system must work is -5 … 50°.