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Would having permanent nets severely affect the efficiency? Specifically for baseball-sized hail, i.e. large gaps between threads.

• foxhop 3y ago
  shade causes the panel to shut off or under perform.
  • rjmunro 3y ago
    But a net designed to catch e.g. golf balls and larger will probably only block a few percent of the light.
    • gpm 3y ago
      And with modern weather forecasts could probably be only put up when it's going to be cloudy with a chance of hail anyways.
• sumtechguy 3y ago
  There is one vid of a guy on YT talking about his daily drop off in power. Turns out it was 1 small cable shading out one small part of a panel Which was enough to shut the whole panel down. His conclusion was the way they were wired up caused it to stop working due to the shade on one set of cells.
  • ars 3y ago
    That's because it was wired with a single inverter for the whole string. So it can only generate power based on the weakest panel. Instead you can use micro-inverters by each panel. Or optimizer's which are dc-dc converters and basically do the same thing. This is very common when you have a chimney, and the shadow from it moves around. I think installations where it's all on a single inverter are not very common - a cloud moving in the sky will mess with the entire array, it's just not a very good way to design it.