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Old 13-09-2012, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by acropolite View Post
That's normal behaviour, backscatter from the clouds together with light reflected from the ground and back from the clouds cause the increase. It's no accident that the US National Electric Code specifies that solar controllers be rated at 125% of the array output.
Yeh Thats what I reckoned was happening, that's why I wanted the scatter pattern machine

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Originally Posted by Larryp View Post
That's interesting, Ken. But I can't explain why-you would think with some cloud, you would get less light falling on the panels
Not less light just the angular difference and reflected as mentioned above
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