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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So diodes are not damaged by repeated partial shade. Great. I have a Morningstar mppt controller but I had to go parallel on my three 315 watt panels because of the voltage cap if in series being exceeded when the panels would first get light. By the way, I had my first opportunity this last week to truly drycamp depending on the solar array to keep my residential fridge running. Despite continued cloudy skies, it worked like a champ.
