Featured in Solar Speaks – 08-2016

Adding more strings to the bow

Stringer-tabber equipment: A new generation of stringers are delivering vastly increased throughput on limited fab floorspace. They are also embracing the shift towards four, five and even six busbars. But how can quality be maintained within this crucial process? pv magazine investigates.

By

Jonathan Gifford

20 Jul 2016

There’s no question the look and feel of the solar industry is always changing. From an immature industry with high levels of process variation last decade, to one in which automation is becoming increasingly common and material variation reduced. The appearance of modules themselves is also always in flux, with a commonly observed transition being …

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