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BFL13
Explorer II
Jan 16, 2019

Solar on Roof -- How You Park-Series vs Parallel ? UPDATE

Update 8 March -------------- Got my second 255w on the roof and went camping where I could check it all out. Solar here in January with such low sun angle is not worth much, but I was able to ge...
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2oldman
Explorer II
Jan 16, 2019
BFL13 wrote:
I then went to a place where it turned out one of the 255s was shaded and I got nothing from it, but got 4.56 and 4.4 from the other two arrays. If they were the usual set-up all in series, and that end of the roof were shaded, what would I have got?
Maybe the same thing if the shaded panel has good diodes. If no diodes, then zero...well, ok not zero but not much.

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