Featured in Solar square off – 09-2016

The heart of PV

Junction boxes: An often underexplored component in the PV system, the junction box holds immense potential as a means of safeguarding power production, protecting modules, increasing yield and monitoring output and an evolution is underway.

By

Ian Clover

19 Aug 2016

The little black box is having a makeover. In an industry where the smallest fractional improvement in efficiency or balance of system (BOS) costs can make a significant difference, attention has turned to junction boxes as a means of extracting more juice from the solar architecture. While ostensibly low-tech, junction boxes have been manufactured to …

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