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Question about fill factor?

Postby gogogo05 » Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:03 am

Does there any effect on the mesurement of fill factor with different solar simulator??
One solar simulator is 1 sun,the other is 500 sun.
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Re: Question about fill factor?

Postby TonyB » Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:49 pm

Hello,

Fill factor is usually measured at 1 sun.
You will get a varying fill factor using different light sources/intensities.
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Re: Question about fill factor?

Postby LaptopNomad » Mon May 31, 2010 7:48 pm

What's considered as a reasonable / good fill factor?
What's the current industry trend in fill factor improvements?
Any references to measurement specs for fill factors?
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Re: Question about fill factor?

Postby TonyB » Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:08 pm

These days reasonable quality panels have fill factors about 72% and above.
Some modules Sunpower makes have 80% FF.
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