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Re: Questions about Solar Energy for my Home Summary:

Derek Broughton

2005-06-28, 6:25 pm

Vaughn wrote:

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> I may have missed something, but this discussion seems to ignore the
> fact
> that larger systems are seldom 12 volt, and so you have panels wired in
> series. In the case of series connection, the failure of one panel can
> remove several (or even all) panels from operation.

All of my 24V panels have a simple jumper (Evergreen, BP & Siemens). There
are no fewer connections if it's wired as 12V than if it's wired as 24V.
All the 24V panels are then wired in parallel, so the worst case is that a
failure takes out twice as much as if it was 12V.
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derek

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