Solar Cell Cleaning

10 responses to “Solar Cell Cleaning”

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   The Rocketeer

   Aug 11, 2008 at 6:58 pm

   Wow… what a difference. And they said you didn’t do windows…

   Now off to Mars with you to follow the rovers.

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   xouroborus

   Aug 11, 2008 at 7:10 pm

   ^
   LOL!

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   Todd Huffman

   Aug 11, 2008 at 7:51 pm

   So, how often should you clean your cells? What’s the integrated difference over the course of a month? How much efficiency is lost by a month of dust?

   It would be neat if you could track half the solar cell performance, so you could have an experimental and control.

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   drona

   Aug 11, 2008 at 8:54 pm

   Neat…important lesson…

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5. 

   Leino88

   Aug 12, 2008 at 12:11 am

   now i want to move out there and start a solar cell cleaning-maintenance business…..sigh

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6. 

   jurvetson

   Aug 12, 2008 at 8:20 pm

   Todd- I am learning. I do have two panels with separate data feeds so i could do an A:B comparison over a few days (to control for weather variations, mild as they are) and extrapolate from there, but I’d want to keep both clean for the long term.

   Rocketeer: I don’t do Windows. Never will. Go Mac!

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   Jonathan Ruff

   Aug 13, 2008 at 12:28 am

   I’m impressed at how well they were performing with a year’s worth of build-up on them.

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8. 

   Black&Color

   Oct 29, 2010 at 1:52 am

   Well, the power of a little dusting…

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9. 

   ceo-me

   Oct 29, 2010 at 6:09 pm

   Really wonderful illustration steve…
   Thanks for making this a CC

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10. 

    righteous cough

    Mar 21, 2011 at 10:58 am

    How did you clean the solar cells? Mine have a chimney to the side of them on which is mounted an aerial. Unfortunatley birds treat this as a resting spot and do what birds do over one of my panels. I am concerned that as I have a string inverter that I am not getting the full output on sunny days like today.

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