Add Solar Panel Group To Stk

Adding panels to an existing system is more common than you might expect.

Add solar panel group to stk.

Your solar panel system could be undersized to begin with or you might have increased your electricity usage since installation due to new additions to your house new appliances or adding an electric. It contains all the elements one would need to set up their dae file for use in stk. The solar panel area report for satellites provides data related to the area of the solar panels illuminated by the sun. But you may want to add more solar panels to your existing system.

This shows how to take a generic model in sketchup format set up a solar panel groups and convert it to collada so that it can be used in stk satellite tool kit with the solar power tool. Stk displays a window that allows you to choose. If your solar system isn t quite meeting your electricity needs it s almost always possible to expand your system to incorporate more panels. You can also use the jump to drop down and select all solar panel groups.

For this reason you can specify a start time a stop time and a time step for the analysis. When the solar panel area report displays scroll down to the all solar panel group section. The solar panel tool computes solar illumination over time by animating the scenario and periodically counting the pixels corresponding to illuminated portions of the solar panels under consideration.