I had the same experience as the older post you referenced with these mods on 2 MW system. Lots of burn marks and shattered glass, located at the edges of cells. And under thermal imaging there were clearly lots of issues, including ones that hadn’t (yet) manifested themselves to the naked eye. The mods were quite concave - a straight edge across the short side showed almost a half inch of concavity. I would have a very hard time using them again. Ok, let me rephrase - I would not. 

Brian

On Jul 12, 2023, at 6:14 AM, Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:


I was searching the forums for information on Peimar modules and this is all that came up. Does anyone have any experience with recently produced PERC modules from them? They are being offered through my distribution network at an attractive price, but I am a bit skeptical.

Jason Szumlanski



On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 12:38 PM Luke Christy <sgsrenewab...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ray,
I just saw the same sort of thing on 2-year-old Peimar modules. In my case, there were visible hot spots that had burned through the backsheet in several places on several modules. In some places it was just small blisters, in others there was a clearly melted area of the backsheet. The hot spots seemed clearly associated with the cells that had cracks, but they were always at the edges and corners of cells. Unfortunately I did not have access to an IR camera to view them under load in the sun. 

The manufacturer replaced them under warranty, but I’m not pleased with these modules at all.


-Luke Christy

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Hi All;

I've had a colleague ask that I post a couple pictures of what appears to be cracks in cells under the glass.  The glass is not damaged.  These are Sun Edison modules, so apparently no warranty.  Has anyone seen this, and are these possibly dangerous (hot spots) or is this nothing to worry about?  An Infrared camera did not show any issues.

As always your invaluable input is always appreciated.

Thanks,

--
Ray Walters
Remote Solar
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