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12thgenusa
Explorer
Oct 23, 2013

What is your solar panel operating temperature?

Comments in an earlier thread concerning solar panel operating temperature and the effect it has panel output and particularly on MPPT controller output, led to searching the web for information on ac...
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Almot
Explorer III
Oct 24, 2013
What BFL said. Temperature effect is useful to estimate the expected output. Different panels have a different power loss coefficient, see the 3rd table . Those numbers 0.3-0.5 are % of power loss per 1C degree.

At 45C it's not terribly bad, around 12% loss for the most temperature-sensitive panel.

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