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Solar box cookers and solar panel cookers normally do not need to be turned to follow the sun unless you are cooking beans or an especially large amount of food. If tracking the sun is necessary, some of the ideas below might serve this purpose.
350px|none|See Tracking Solar Accumulating Barbecue.
Brian White's diagram of the dripper tracker which is potentially a highly accurate waterclock. Graphic by Mike Murphy.
qtsunshine@hotmail.com's design for a simple system to reposition a solar cooker automatically while unattended.
]Tracking mechanism that uses the hour hand of a clock to control the turning of a solar cooker
A plan for a solar water clock drive submitted by ChrisM1111@aol.com
Solar oven repositioning device designed by Jeff Monaco. Tom Sponheim suggested using wax melting instead to remove the need for a magnifying glass.
Tom Sponheim suggested using wax melting instead to remove the need for a magnifying glass
Provisionally called liquid piston tracker
Programable tracking systems
Still in its infancy, programable tracking systems are being developed with software to not only rotate the reflector to maintain maximum exposure to the sun, but to also control cooking time and desired temperatures.
thumb|400px|left
Audio and video
425px|| April 2010: UC Berkeley student tracking system demonstration |
| March 2010: Tracking Solar Accumulating Barbecue - Brian White |
| May 2008: Clock based dripper tracker demo |
| June 2006: Dripper tracker for parabolic solar accumulator |
See also
- Sun Switch
- Tracking Solar Accumulating Barbecue
- Tanoor
- Brian White
- Super Solar Tracker for Solar Ovens
External links
- Solar cooker research in Jordan
- Solar Tracking With A Box-Style Cooker - Jim Thomasson
- Readymade Solar Oven Trackers available for purchase at: www.solaroventrackers.com
- Solar Oven Trackers - Small Power Systems
- French: Pisteurs pour four solaire