Featured in Looking forward – 08-2012

Little black box

Junction box: Intersolar Europe 2012 presented the opportunity to look into the black boxes of the solar industry: junction boxes and the cables and connectors that fuse the entire system in harmony. New products were presented, some older products saw improvements and the question of integration came up.

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Shamsiah Ali Oettinger

27 Jul 2012

The little black box of solar is seeing not just design changes, but also going heavy on electronics. Without physically weighing down junction boxes (JBs), these power electronics promise better energy management and higher efficiency shade or no shade. As Azuray Technologies aptly puts it, “shade has met its match,” in the form of power …

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