[RE-wrenches] Teacher wants a cutaway PV module

[David Katz]

I am pretty sure that tempered glass with shatter as soon as you cut 
into the edge.  That is the nature of tempered glass. 
David

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Windy Dankoff wrote:
> Mick,
>
> If you have a junk module, I'm fairly sure you can cut it up by using 
> a lapidary saw - the wet diamond slow-speed kind that gem and mineral 
> people use. I mean I'm sure you can cut it. Fairly sure it will not go 
> to pieces. I'm not sure there's much to be learned by looking at it, 
> but ...
>
> Windy
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Mick Abraham wrote:
>
>> Yo, Wrenchies~
>>
>> Does anyone offer a sample PV module which would allow a 
>> cross-section view of the laminate/metal frame?
>>
>> I told my teacher friend that a laminated glass unit could not be 
>> sawed in half without totally shattering the glass. I also told him 
>> that I would ask around to see if anyone makes a cutaway especially 
>> for show & tell purposes.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be welcomed. If nothing else maybe we buy some 
>> of those mini-modules that are potted in plastic, no metal frame, 
>> then get after it with an angle grinder and a thin cutting wheel. 
>> That sounds like a lot of carnage but I haven't done any major 
>> destruction so far this year, so maybe it's time...
>>
>> Jolliness,
>>
>> Mick Abraham, Proprietor
>> www.abrahamsolar.com <http://www.abrahamsolar.com>
>>
>> Voice: 970-731-4675
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