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CA_Traveler
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Jan 23, 2016

Understanding Solar Irradiance for Solar Panels

In another thread it was suggested that you could use the University of Arizona at Tucson solar data to determine the maximum expected solar panel output at that location. Using that data from 1/20/16...
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red31
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Jan 23, 2016
I understand DNI to be a small window about the sun, beam, 'straight line' from the sun.

see page 12 of chp1 manual
http://www.kippzonen.com/Product/18/CHP1-Pyrheliometer#.VqPrKZorI1g
The beam of light that reaches the detector is limited by the field and aperture stop.

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