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Apr 29, 2013Explorer
harold1946 wrote:
One of the main reasons for early failure with all PV made by Unisolar is that the protective coating for both their rigid and flexable panels is plastic. UV destroys plastics, and it has to pass through that before reaching the cells.
Actually I think it's the other way around. I believe the plastic lense on the front of Unisolar units is heavily UV stabilized, resulting in the lower efficiency rating per square meter, because some of the light energy is absorbed by the stabilizing additive in the polymer coating.
UV stabilizer
Jim
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