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What if you manually adjust them based on the season?





In the West, the cost of labor makes that unappealing. From a DIY standpoint it'd still be a pain. Those things are heavy and usually require at least 2 to 4 people to install or move. It's not something you'd want to do regularly if avoidable.

I see.

I imagined then being panels on like a hinge that you like unbolt, tilt a little and then bolt down again. I didn't know it would take multiple people to do it.


Yeah, you could maybe design something like that. It'd still be quite a lot of work to go through all the panels one at a time every few months, though. And doing the math to remember what angle to point them at would be annoying and error prone.

Couldn't you tilt different panels at different angles for a few days to measure their output and then go with the one that performed the best?



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