• DocumentCode
    122245
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    3104
  • Lastpage
    3107
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925594
  • Filename
    6925594