solar panels with diodes between each cell

pianotuna wrote:
Hi folks,

I stumbled across these panels today:

https://ae-solar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/AE_P6-36_155W-175W.pdf

They apparently have diodes between each and every cell which gives them an advantage for series connection of the panels (i.e. shade tolerant)

Does anyone know of other panels that do this?

where did you read about the Diodes, I cant find anything in the link you posted. Most solare pannels have bypass and blocking diodes, which allows sections to be bypassed in shady conditions or what ever. the lower end only have 3 and higher end ones have more. the cost of adding the diodes is pretty substantial, so if some one is putting them on every cell that would be wild but I wonder how much of a difference it would be from say every second or every 3rd cell.

for me its a 12V pannel so I am not sure I would realy look at it for use, 24V pannels let you run smaller wire and such. but I also have a split cell pannel and they are touted for being more efficient in low light and partial shading situations so dues to the smaller cell design allowing them to have a slightly higher output per cell.

doing some more digging into this my split cell 24V pannel has a bypass diode for every cell, which is why thes pannels are so good in partial shading so I guess that must be becoming a pretty standard thing now.

Steve