Considered to be the most sophisticated and well designed active pole-top tracking system available, Wattsun trackers help keep your solar panels precisely fixed on the sun all day long. The result? A Wattsun tracker can provide up to 40% more power than a comparable fixed array, depending on weather and latitude. These simple and highly reliable trackers need no seasonal adjustment, and are available to fit all commercially manufactured solar panels.
How It Works
Wattsun Solar Trackers actively follow the sun across the sky with low speed motors or linear actuators guided by an electronic light sensor. This guarantees that the plane of your array is always perpendicular to the sun’s rays, giving you the maximum power your solar panels can produce at all times.
Will a Wattsun Tracker Work with My Solar Array?
Many owners don’t equip their PV arrays with solar trackers even though tracking will greatly increase the power output. The experience has been that passive trackers (which typically use the expansion of harmful freon gas to provide collector movement), have serious limitations: they do not reset quickly enough to fix the panels on the early morning sun, they are often overpowered by the wind and they do not work well at low temperatures. Hence, their pointing accuracy is not precise and (because they are single axis) they require seasonal adjustments to maximize power output.
The Wattsun Solar Tracker is different. Its revolutionary solid-state sensor finds the maximum sun available in the sky, even under overcast skies, from sunup to sundown. Using dependable motor-driven actuators it keeps the panel array pointed accurately at the sun at all times. And Wattsun trackers are extremely efficient, using very little power while harvesting every possible kilowatt from the available sun.
Use a Wattsun Tracker for:
- Grid-Tied residential solar electric systems
- Off-Grid residential solar electric systems
- Telecommunications systems
- Solar water pumping systems
- Utility Scale solar electric power plants
- Exposure Testing Laboratories
- Concentrating PV systems
Wattsun Solar Trackers are available in five standard models. Your selection of a tracker depends on your application, specific solar panel and PV array size. Tracker frames are precisely engineered for strength, are fabricated from steel and structural aluminum and disassembled for ease of shipping and installation. Fire Mountain Solar can help you choose the appropriate tracker for your needs. Wattsun Solar Trackers offer the best tracker price and value in the PV Industry.
Azimuth Trackers
Wattsun standard single and dual-axis Azimuth Series residential and light commercial trackers can mount over three kilowatts of solar panels.
Small Azimuth Trackers
AZ-125 Gear Drive
12 to 18 – 75 Watt solar panels
Large Azimuth Tracker
AZ-225 Gear Drive
Up to 24 – 75 watt solar panels
Rack over 2000 Watts on a single tracker
Wattsun Fixed-Tilt Azimuth Series trackers mount three to six kilowatts.
HZ-Linear Axis Trackers
The TrackPort™ HZ Carport trackers mount ten to twenty kilowatts.
Low Profile DuraTrack-HZ installations of one MW and more.
The easy-to-install Wattsun solar tracker features rugged anodized aircraft-quality aluminum frames that come in standard array sizes ranging from 2 panels to 24 panels. Larger sizes are available on special order.
The Wattsun tracker comes complete with all of the hardware needed to mount it and the collector array on your pole.
The unique and custom nature of most mounting layouts makes it difficult to provide pricing without information specific to your application. Please call us for a quote.
