<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks for your comments Brian. I would also consider these to be "low grade", even though we did not order or pay for "low grade". I did get in touch with the module manufacturer and found out that these did sneak past their QC checkpoint. I was told that their general tolerance for the bus/ribbon alignment is within 1/2 the ribbon width.<br><br>I was told that internal arcing is not a concern here because the individual cell is at the same potential, so arcing should not happen with the ribbon/bus being misaligned.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Yes, the small amount of cell shading will reduce output, but it is a minute amount of shading, so the loss is negligible.(?)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I would appreciate any feedback from any other module manufacturers on this, if we have any on this list?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Benn<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:1em 0px;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><div style="text-align:left"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Benn Kilburn <span style="font-size:9px"></span></strong></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Benn Kilburn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benn@skyfireenergy.com" target="_blank">benn@skyfireenergy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Wrenches,<br>
Have any of you noticed misaligned cell interconnections like the ones in the attached photo?<br>
I'm hesitant to use these and I already returned another module back to the distributer that had several cells with misaligned conductors as well, but just came across these in the order we just picked up.<br>
I'm waiting for a reply from he mfgr but in the meantime I'm wondering if any of you have seen this and should we be concerned with quality or safety (arcing?) in the short or long term?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Benn<br>
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Benn Kilburn<br>
SkyFire Energy Inc.<br>
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