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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mike-s wrote:
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.
What does PWM vs MPPT have to do with it?
There was something about cells in panels being damaged by some light effect, can't remember what that was (not the water one either), but it wasn't mottled shading or the diodes. Where a cell got too hot ISTR.
