<html><head><base href="x-msg://369/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue">Ok so its a reading night.</div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue">There are a bunch of very good papers about this effect on all the different types of modules.<br><a class="resultDisplayUrl" data-icl-coi="540" data-icl-cop="results-main" href="http://cs.dogpile.com/ClickHandler.ashx?du=http%3a%2f%2fwww1.eere.energy.gov%2fsolar%2fpdfs%2fpvmrw2011_p25_tf_dunn.pdf&ru=http%3a%2f%2fwww1.eere.energy.gov%2fsolar%2fpdfs%2fpvmrw2011_p25_tf_dunn.pdf&ld=20130219&ap=4&app=1&c=info.dogpl&s=dogpile&coi=239138&cop=main-title&euip=24.147.2.48&npp=4&p=0&pp=0&pvaid=b38b38d290ad401eb6a632df17eb8c15&sid=1830193568.2660773008126.1361238904&vid=1830193568.2660773008126.1361138254.13&fcoi=417&fcop=topnav&fpid=2&ep=2&mid=9&hash=60D4EDF8C76D3C8BF8BF97A0BBCF6F57" target="_blank">www1.eere.energy.gov/…dfs/pvmrw2011_p25_tf_dunn.pdf</a>
</div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue">Best summary of Soaking would be : controlled exposure to light under controlled environmental conditions.</div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue">The "soaking" seems to come from exposing the panel to light for --extended-- periods.</div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue">Thus finding the effects on the panel after it has reached a critical point of light exposure.</div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue">Like a sponge, the panel has been fully soaked with light.</div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue">Then they observe effects. Some pretty interesting effects in some panels.</div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue"><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Doug Wells</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">The Solar Specialists</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Morrisville, VT 05661</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">(p) 802-223-7014</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">(c) 802-498-5856</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.thesolarspecialists.com/">www.thesolarspecialists.com</a></div></div></span></div><br></body></html>