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This stress can cause solar panel degradation due to back-sheet failure and produce partial power losses or compromise the PV module components. To reduce solar panel degradation caused by cracking on the
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Cell cracks appear in the photovoltaic (PV) panels during their transportation from the factory to the place of installation. Moreover, some climate proceedings such as snow loads, strong winds and hailstorms might create some major cracks on the PV modules surface [ - ].
This paper demonstrates a statistical analysis approach, which uses T-test and F-test for identifying whether the crack has significant impact on the total amount of power generated by the photovoltaic (PV) modules. Electroluminescence (EL) measurements were performed for scanning possible faults in the examined PV modules.
It is concluded that the influence of cracks does not always necessarily lead to severe performance degradation; as a result, the impact of cracks on PV modules’ electrical characteristics is controversial.
Nine solar cells out of 60 have been affected by micro cracks in PV module 4. There is a large damage on the top left solar cell of the PV module, this big damage in the PV solar cell affects the total amount of current flows from the PV module.
Diagonal cracks and multiple directions cracks always show a significant reduction in the PV output power . Moreover, the PV industry has reacted to the in-line non-destructive cracks by developing new techniques of crack detection such as resonance ultrasonic vibration (RUV) for screening PV cells with pre-existing cracks .
PV module 7 contains only eight solar cells out of 60 which are affected by micro cracks. These micro cracks reduces the amount of power generated by the PV module up to 19.27%. This reduction of the PV output power could be enhanced by replacing the cracked PV solar cells or adding a bypass diode in parallel with the solar cells PV string.
