I see a product number brewing On Dec 24, 2015 8:35 AM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed a while back that half of my home solar array was frosted over > and half was clear. > > I figured that one of the inverters must be off line. Any time you are > moving electrons you are creating heat, right? > Yes, one of them had tripped its circuit breaker, but it was the one that > was melted, not the frosty one. > Zero current == warmer panel. > > I am guessing that extracting up to 285 watts per panel with a closed > circuit means up to 285 watts lot left behind to convert into heat. > Not sure if you could use this to help them melt snow. I don’t think it > would work for anything more than a light coating of frost. I wish I > would have taken my IR thermometer out to see the temperature difference. >
