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“Innovative products for the solar energy industry”
www.entecsolar.es
With the goal of creating hardware tools to
facilitate field work, Entec Solar has developed
the E-1000 I-V curve tracer to provide the best
possible experience when measuring I-V curves of
photovoltaic installations.
The E-1000 has been developed in collaboration
with QPV
(www.qpv.es)
, a company specialized
in audits and quality controls of large photovoltaic
power plants, which has exposed the current needs
in the measurement of I-V curves in the field. The
combination of Entec’s hardware development
expertise and QPV’s I-V curve measurement
experience has resulted in the fastest and most
innovative I-V curve tracer on the market, all with
an unmatched measurement precision.
This high precision instrument allows the
measurement of up to 200 I-V curves per hour of
work, either of photovoltaic modules or strings of
up to 1000V and 20A. It also incorporates several
new elements such as: a barcode reader for an
automatic identification of the module under test
and its position in the installation, an automatic
report generation tool to reduce processing time,
an automatic measurement option for hands-free
operation during connection and disconnection of
the tested panels, a wireless sensor (E-Sens) with
a communication range of up to 2km to measure
irradiance and temperature conditions, a mobile
phone application to control the device remotely,
and many more options that will change the
way you carry out your I-V curve measurement
campaigns. In addition, through a WiFi connection,
the E-1000 is synchronized with the PVET® servers
(www.pvet.es)
, facilitating the post-processing of
the measurement campaigns, storing all the historical
measurements, and allowing intercomparisons and
data crossing for rapid and precise diagnosis of
possible faults in your plants.
2. General description
