Featured in The Array Changers – 06-2015

From farm to flash

Bypass diodes: The Zurich University of Applied Sciences has developed a new mobile LED flasher that can test module nominal power in the field, rather than in the lab. This flasher can also detect faulty bypass diodes quickly and easily. pv magazine was invited along to see the system in action at a German array.

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Ian Clover

02 Jun 2015

Quedlinburg is one of those typically curious towns of former East Germany: dilapidated but decorous, part deserted but humming with purpose, and cast in an old-world exterior shot-through with the trappings of modernity. It is an intriguing kind of place. Nestled in a no-man’s land midway between Berlin to the east and the Harz mountains …

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