Abstract: The present invention allows simultaneous measurement of current and voltage produced by a PV cell by removably pressing first and second parallel spaced apart closely adjacent sensing conductors, electrically insulated from each other, onto a current carrying conductor on a front side of the PV cell to make electrical contact therewith, while removably pressing at least one reference contact to a reference conductor on the rear side of the PV cell to make electrical contact therewith. Current is conducted from the current carrying conductor on the front side, through the first sensing conductor to current measuring circuitry and through the at least one reference contact back to the rear side reference conductor. Voltage is sensed at the second sensing conductor relative to the rear side reference conductor, using voltage measuring circuitry.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 18, 2010
Publication date:
August 8, 2013
Applicant:
DAY4 ENERGY GROUP INC.
Inventors:
Leonid Borisov Rubin, Vasily Yefimovich Tarasenko, Alexander Sergeevich Osipov, Valery Michaelovich Nebusov, Rainer Grischke, Bram Michael Sadlik