Full Description

This document is designed to be used as a guide to visually inspect front-contact polycrystalline and mono-crystalline silicon solar photovoltaic (PV) modules for major defects (less common types of PV modules such as back-contact silicon cells or thin film technologies are not covered herein). The modules under consideration may be of any size or rated power, however some specific use-cases for solar modules may have different requirements and therefore adaption of this document is application and institution dependent (ex. labelling may not be present for a solar module sold as part of a small off-grid lighting kit). This document is meant to supplement and support rather than replace international testing standards (forexample IEC 61215 or UL 1703 [1], [2]). A lack of visually observable defects is necessary but not sufficient to determine if a module would pass IEC 61215 testing.

Cross References:
IEC 61215 (all parts)


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Published: 09/16/2019 ISBN(s): 9780580991479 Number of Pages: 36 File Size: 1 file , 4 MB Product Code(s): 30363152, 30363152, 30363152 Note: This product is unavailable in United Kingdom