This section is to help calculate the distance
between the front and the rear solar array
so that the rear one does not get
shaded by the front one.
If you want to place a solar array behind another array, you would need to ascertain whether
the front array will cast a shadow on the rear array.
There is a trigonometric formula to
calculate how far the shadow of the front array will be cast at midday during the winter
solstice.
Winter of course is when the shadow is the longest and longer in the morning and
afternoon than at midday.
But to calculate the length of the shadow at any time of day and
from that to calculate how far behind the front array you need to be gets very complicated,
mathematically speaking.
You would need to calculate how far south (in the southern
hemisphere) the eastern corner of the front array casts on the rear array in the morning and
how far south the western corner of the front array casts on the rear array in the afternoon,
taking the width and placement of both arrays into consideration.
To help to figure this out,
we have produced a series of tables covering latitudes from the northernmost tip of
Queensland down to Tasmania.
Winter Shadow Digram is an illustration to help understand the tables
WinterShadow is series of tables with the for various latitudes.