Faulty Solar Panel Calculator

A while back I had some issues with my solar array where a string would throw a ground fault on the inverter. It turned out Trina had made a faulty batch of panels where water would leak into the side of the frame. When it rained, the inverter would detect a ground fault.

So I built a calculator that lets me quickly identify one or more panels that are leaking.

String details

Calculated values

Vocp per panel
V1 ÷ Vocp
V2 ÷ Vocp
V1 + V2

Fault location


String map — positive end (left) to negative end (right)

Likely fault
Adjacent / suspect

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