Outdoor Testing
Outdoor Bifacial Testing
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CFV has a state-of the art bifacial test yard with 5 rows of Array Technologies single-axis trackers, each with 30 module capacity.
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Long test rows give results that correlate much better wth utility scale installations.
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Albedo is .30 and well-controlled. GCR is .37.
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CFV can accomodate up to 9 different module experiments at a time, and has built custom instrumentation for this purpose.
Outdoor Roofdeck Testing
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CFV has a simulated roofdeck in the test yard for evaluating residential technolgies including modules, racking systems, BiPV, shingled PV, and power electronics.
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The roof deck is 80 feet long and at 5/12 pitch.
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The roofdeck is fully instrumented and can be configured with string inverters, micro-inverters and optimizers.
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High resolution thermocouple and IR data is available.
Custom Instrumentation
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CFV has a large outdoor test yard and has evaluated almost all data acquistion technologies available for PV.
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We decided to build our own custom equioment optimized for the specific challenges of PV.
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The resulting family of instrumentation is ultra-high accuracy (+/- .2%), with nearly zero temperature coefficients, and can be configured in module or string versions, and with wireless or wired data and power.