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<DIV><SPAN class=125304423-03082011><FONT size=4>I just think nobody is taking
the geography in to account.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125304423-03082011><FONT size=4>There are plenty of PV
installations around here, but I have never seen or heard of a tracking one.
This is probably because there is no point in them. The situation could be
quite different in the more frigid parts of the world for two
reasons.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125304423-03082011><FONT size=4>1. Even in what is laughably
called the banana belt of Canada, the insolation is not that great, and the
skies are not so clear, so you would need to chase every watt you can
find.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125304423-03082011><FONT size=4>2. In the summer, the days are
longer. Hence the practical window of opportunity may be as much as an
hour wider, but the hourly march of the sun is the same.
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<DIV><SPAN class=125304423-03082011><FONT size=4>A tracking system helps in both
cases, and this heathen would imagine the more polar you get the more sense a
tracker will make. </FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Nick Pyner<BR><BR>Dee Why NSW </FONT></P>
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<P>I told him that I had been telling people (this List) that his single-axis
tracking array had produced 40 and sometimes 44% more than the Enphase fixed
array and that you (the Listmembers) were telling me that I was full of
$#!+.</P>
<P>We both just shrugged our shoulders (as if to say "Nyeh! What can you do
about unbelieving heathens ?") </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>