PV cells test bench system with remote access trough Internet

Author

Borza, Paul Nicolae ; Cotfas, Petru Adrian ; Cotfas, Daniel Tudor ; Carp, Marius Catalin

Author_Institution

Transilvania Univ. of Brasov, Brasov, Romania

fYear

2012

fDate

24-26 May 2012

Firstpage

1046

Lastpage

1051

Abstract

A test bench system for testing the solar cells is presented. The system allows remote access through Ethernet in order to measure the I-V characteristics at different levels of lighting and the dynamic behaviour of solar cells using light or current pulses. The paper presents two different solutions and emphasizes their advantages allowing high accuracy in the measurement of the PV cell parameters. The paper shows the architecture and elements of a data acquisition system that was developed based on high resolution ADCs. The user interface is implemented in the LabVIEW environment.

Keywords

Internet; data acquisition; power engineering computing; solar cells; user interfaces; virtual instrumentation; I-V characteristics; Internet; LabVIEW environment; PV cell parameters; PV cell test bench system; current pulses; data acquisition system; high resolution ADC; lighting; solar cell testing; user interface; Actuators; Data acquisition; Light sources; Lighting; Photovoltaic cells; Temperature measurement; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (OPTIM), 2012 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brasov

ISSN

1842-0133

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1650-7

Electronic_ISBN

1842-0133

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OPTIM.2012.6231969

Filename

6231969