Opaque solar panels🙄

[Grubscrew]

Time ticks by and two years or so after the solar panel install I was surprised, but not overly, at the opaque sheen the panels on the roof have developed.

Wind back the clock…..I put some flexi panels and made a super job of then too..

To be fair, they were not hugely expensive, but guess this is what happens. They produced a reasonable amount of power all three , but no way the 160max per panel claimed , I found after the opaque sheen developed, the output was reduced.

Incidentally, I’ve a solar pond fountain , the small 4” square panel was also opaque. It produced 6” of verticle shower. Clean the panel with wd40 not really advised, but hey) but the panel then proceeded to a 9” verticle shower, all in the space of 2 minutes, full sun all day.
Back to the van. The old flexi ones are coming off soon, the second pic doesn’t quite show the extent , so be replacing them with 170watt x3 .

 

[Scottish Scrutineer]

I clean the panels on our house every couple of years, just to remove some of the atmospheric fall out from the glass.

 

[Tor]

They look like flexible panels, if so they all seem to go that way, though not a fix you may have to consider changing them to regular type panels.

I got mine from Craig Solar which were vastly more expensive than I wanted to pay, however, they were exactly the size I needed for my roof so I had to suck it up.