Konza Solar Trackers launches first man-portable, 200 Watt, automatic dual axis tracker. This development will enable remote researchers and emergency management personnel to charge computers and communications equipment and to expand their use of drones to save lives and collect important data.
Incorporating high-efficiency, flexible modules and Konza Solar’s patented dual axis tracking system has resulted in the lightest weight and most compact tracking system available today.
“We wanted to design a system that a single person could carry long distances, but it needed to provide enough power to be useful in the field,” said Mark Moser, the engineer behind the Konza Solar Tracker. “We’ve been in touch with universities and wildland firefighters, and we saw that aerial drone use was becoming an important part of their operations.”
While communications equipment requires very little energy, drones have high energy requirements. Charging the lithium ion batteries that drones use takes time and a consistent power supply.
Taking advantage of the most efficient, lightest, and most compact tracking solar array available will reduce the need for gasoline generators in remote, often sensitive, environments, while expanding operator capabilities with a consistent 200 Watt, all-day supply of energy.
