An advanced measurement equipment for the tracing of photovoltaic panel I–V curves
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Gaiotto, Stefano; Laudani, Antonino; Fulginei, Francesco Riganti; Salvini, Alessandro
- Source
- 2015 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA), 2015 International Conference on. :1010-1014 Nov, 2015
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Load modeling
Consumer electronics
MOSFET
Mathematical model
Current measurement
DC-DC power converters
Employee welfare
- Language
In this paper a measurement equipment designed to trace the I–V characteristics curves of a photovoltaic (PV) panel in a lot of working conditions is proposed. The approach exploits a microcomputer assisted DC-DC converter used as electronic load. The microcomputer also controls the voltage and current measurements process and provides connectivity with remote clients requesting the PV panel experimental data. The proposed approach does not require additional expensive equipments and it is very accurate and simple to use. Validations on commercial PV modules are presented.