What Will Students Learn In This Solar
Tracker Circuit Design Workshop?

HANDS ON SOLAR TRACKER CIRCUIT WORKSHOP
  • Solar energy & its positive impact on the environment
  • Electricity
- Learn about: electrical current, voltage, resistor, power, amp-hour and insolation
  • Photovoltaic
- Solar cell, panels, array
- What is a photovoltaic system?
- Calculation of electrical load requirement
- Solar panels sizing per load requirement
  • Solar tracker
- What is a solar tracker?
- Different types of solar trackers and their usefulness
  • Hands-on Solar tracker circuit design
- Electronics parts familiarity (learn about resistors, capacitor, bipolar junction
transistor, LED)
- Prerequisite activities:
-> Activity 1: Use of multimeter
-> Activity 2: How to measure resistance, current and voltage in the circuit
-> Activity 3: Current amplification using a bipolar transistor
-> Activity 4: LED as a light sensor
-> Activity 5: How to divide voltage (voltage divider)
  • Built the solar tracker circuit
- What is a schematic of a circuit?
- Circuit functionality
- Activity 6: Build the circuit
  • Learn to trouble shoot the circuit