The Patented Suntraption Personal Solar Harvesting Machine.

This small-scale solar harvesting machine will precisely track the sun for cooking, PV or both at the same time.

A fine burger cooked by the sun in minutes!

Stepper drive pulses .9° every 216 seconds. Total of 252 pulses provides 227° horizon-to-horizon tracking for Summer Solstice. Push buttons move forward and backward for acquiring sun each day.

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Suntraption works for cooking, PV or both. Fully manual or motor driven.

Simultaneous Cooking with 130W PV

powering drive and charging battery.

Backside shows mounting, drive, controller, power supply and removable assemblies.

Manual cooking only.

Manual cooking and small PV

Motorized drive with cooking and small PV

Precise Tracking Design Confirmation

Concentrated solar using a Fresnel lens. The carriage pivots up and down for seasonal adjustment. Only rotation is needed on a daily basis! This device is using a simple clock timer as a drive.

Coincidental changes of seasonal elevation and sunrise/sunset positions.

Rapid time lapse of PV panels tracking movement operated by patented fluid drive.

Solar Prize 7 PV Genset

Rapidly deployable 4000-watt Photovoltaic Genset has new patented precise tracking technology.

Winter Solstice, Equinox and Summer Solstice Daily Rotations

The Suntraption stand is seasonally adjusted and rotated from three positions showing the changing sunrise and sunset positions. The panels will precisely face the sun from horizon to horizon.