Product Description

Since 2008, hundreds of thousands of solar panels have popped up across the country as an increasing number of Americans choose to power their daily lives with the sun’s energy. You also may be considering the option of adding a solar energy system to your house’s roof. When you evaluate solar panels for your photovoltaic system, you will encounter three main categories of panel options: monocrystalline solar panels, polycrystalline solar panels, and thin-film solar panels. All these types of panels produce energy from the sun, but they each have different features. In this article, we will take a closer look at the polycrystalline solar panel. Follow this new blog in Linquip to learn more about this type of solar panel.

Polycrystalline or Multicrystalline solar panels are solar panels that consist of several crystals of silicon in a single PV cell. Several fragments of silicon are melted together to form the wafers of polycrystalline solar panels. In the case of polycrystalline solar cells, the vat of molten silicon used to produce the cells is allowed to cool on the panel itself. These solar panels have a surface that looks like a mosaic. They have a square shape and a shining blue hue as they are made up of several polycrystalline silicon. As there are multiple silicon crystals in each cell, polycrystalline panels allow little movement of electrons inside the cells. These solar panels absorb energy from the sun and convert it into electricity.

Polycrystalline Solar Panel Features

• Polycrystalline solar panels are more eco-friendly than monocrystalline solar panels as they do not require individual shaping and placement of each crystal and most of the silicon is utilized during production. So, very less waste is produced.
• The acceptable maximum temperature of polycrystalline solar panels is 85 °C while the acceptable minimum temperature is -40 °C.
• Polycrystalline solar panels have lower heat tolerance than monocrystalline panels. So, at higher temperatures, these solar panels have lower efficiency than others.
• Polycrystalline solar panels have a higher temperature coefficient than monocrystalline panels.
• These panels have a high power density.