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Ev Archive for March 2001
1589 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:51:22 2001

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Re: Solar Panels



My Arco Panels -labeled rejects in 1982- are still going strong.
12V - 2.2A / 2.4A shorted      They have no model numbers.
DonHall

william glickman wrote:

> What make and model are those 30 year old PV panels that still act like
> new ?
>
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:21:50 -0500 Ron Schroeder <rjs@bnl.gov> writes:
> > At 01:12 PM 3/30/01 -0600, you wrote:
> > <snip>
> > >I used to think that PV panels would last forever, but over the
> > past couple
> > >of years, my Carrizo solar panels (which are at least 20 years old)
> > seem to
> > >have lost nearly half of their output.
> > <snip>
> >
> > I don't think that the Carrizo panels are a fair example.  They were
> > fried
> > before you got them.
> >
> > My oldest panels are over 30 years old and still meet the same
> > current
> > measurements that I made in 1973.
> >
> > Ron Schroeder
> > WD8CDH
> > E. E. S.
> > wd8cdh@bnl.gov
> > rjs@bnl.gov
> > ron@112motors.com
> > 631 344-4561 Day
> > 631 286-5677 Nite
> >
>
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