Title :
Development of a string level I–V curve tracer
Author :
Erkaya, Yunus ; Flory, Isaac ; Marsillac, Sylvain X.
Author_Institution :
Virginia Inst. of Photovoltaics, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA
Abstract :
Monitoring systems with high precision and high reliability are of great importance in the interest of harnessing solar power with ever increasing power outputs and efficiencies. Typical monitoring systems do not allow for the tracing and analysis of I-V curves. A portable and light-weight method for tracing I-V curves of photovoltaic strings has been developed using a capacitive load.
Keywords :
fault diagnosis; photovoltaic power systems; light-weight method; monitoring systems; photovoltaic strings; solar power harnessing; string level I-V curve tracer; Arrays; Capacitors; Current measurement; Monitoring; Photovoltaic systems; Voltage measurement; I–V measurement; curve tracing; fault detection; monitoring; photovoltaics;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925594
