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Originally Posted by All Darc
I need some help. In a solar car that is not very well flat on top, how would be the solar cells connection, since if just one cell get shade the entire cell connceted in series will get problem.
I presume they need to very vey plan what areas will have independent conncetion, in relation the the angle to the sun, in orther to minimize the risk.
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The solar racers I've seen all had what they called a solid state solar tracker. Series/parallel panel array segments were wired in to the solid state device,which during partial shading,directed the 'live' segments through the power converter to the motor,while isolating the 'dead' areas so as not to create an open-circuit condition which would otherwise occur if any series elements were to go into shade,knocking out the whole array.