Homemade Solar Concentrator

Building On The Ridge or V Trough Solar Concentrator Array

A V trough solar concentrator array would look like the below, not shown is the solar tracker.

This particular array has a 60 degree concentrator, with the reflector surface the same length as half the width of a solar panel. The yellow lines represent the sun and show the sun reflecting to the middle of the [...]

Ridge or V Trough Solar Concentrator

A solar concentrator is a shiny surface that reflects sunlight on to a collector.
One type of concentrator is a ridge or V trough

In this diagram, the solar panel is 50mm wide, the angle of the reflector trough is
60 degrees and the reflector trough in 50mm. You can use the solar funnel
calculator to workout the angle. [...]