Mottled shade on solar panels not good?
I may have misunderstood, but I read something while on a trip (I can’t remember where I read it) that left me with the impression that it was damaging to the diodes on my panels to leave them operati...
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It won't damage the diodes. They're there to bypass shaded strings of cells. But, especially if you use a PWM controller, shade on even a single cell can stop all power output from that panel for as long as it's shaded. But nothing gets damaged.
