> > Summary: Comments and ideas  welcome. re performing surgery on
> > Silicon/glass laminated PV panels
> >
> > I have access to a useful number of new Silicon / glass (standard
> > construction) 300W PV panels which have "low output".
> > "The price was right" even with their issues.
> > And even better if restorable.
> > I'm surprised that these have reached here in this condition as other t=
han
> > utterly nominal testing would have shown the fault.
> > (Factories I have been involved with have used Xenon flash illumination=
 to
> > plot full load lines for every panel).
> >
> > There are 72 cells per panel in 6 strings of 12 panels.
> > These should produce about 46V oc but do not produce much above 30V.
> >
> > I now have 8 of these panels.
> Total cost was $NZ160.
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> Rear access methods through rear sheet as per Ken's links seem by far the
> best means.

Those big panels must be a handfull... I have the smaller 60 cell ones, but=
 you still=20
know you've done some exercise getting 20 of them up a flight of stairs~!

Do you tend to set them up as a string with one inverter, or micro-inverter=
s to take=20
care of variances between panels - in case some can not be restored to100% =
?




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