Featured in Solar America – 06-2010

Tape and paste

Lightweight crystalline modules: Most modules are equipped with thick front glass in order to withstand mechanical loads. Solon presents a module with thinner glass and less weight, one suitable for numerous industrial roofs. The new module is fastened to the roof by adhesives instead of bolts.

While the rechargeable hot-glue gun hums, shining black beads are rapidly placed next to each other on the elevations of the light-gray trapezoidal sheet metal. About sixty centimeters in length, always one pair above the other, and with the whole procedure is repeated six times each time. Thus the first endurance test for a new …

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