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Frames, clamps or backrails?

Securing thin film modules: The way modules are secured plays a key role in the mechanical stresses generated in them and likely resultant glass breakage, as has been shown in several studies by glass makers and thin film module producers.

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pv magazine

21 Apr 2011

It’s quite windy on the hurricane test system at Florida International University, Miami. The wind roars against two-and-a-half-square-meter glass-glass modules at 130 kilometers per hour, first from the front and then again from behind. Gusts going up to 184 kilometers per hour are added in. Thin film modules that a layperson might think were particularly …

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