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kind off, except it was right at the interrconnection joint and was due to heat of a poor solder joint. Your photo looks like an internal short on the cell causing a similar heat related fault. The manufacture had given me a replacement panel for the defective one, so thats not the issue, I was only responding to the idea of thermal shock breaking the glass


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 Post subject: Re: Panel Maintenance
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Hi, does anyone wax their panel? like car wax, or maybe rain-x on the glass surface? I get the dust, also some sort of insect crap.. (not bird crap) on the glass. :? its been raining alot lately, but the dust film still sticks.


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 Post subject: Re: Panel Maintenance
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For the first year or so after I built my Solar System I would wash the panels every few weeks with dish soap and scrub with a brush. 6 years later, I don't even bother to wash them once a year ... and I haven't applied any wax or coating to the panels. :oops:


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