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by kragen 284 days ago
Yes, agreed, especially if you're "short-circuiting" them with MOSFETs or TRIACs or something instead of relays.

I did know that normally-operating panels were significantly cooler (23% efficiency means 23% less heat than a regular black body) but I had no idea that people used this feature to detect broken panels with thermal cameras. I'd only seen people forward-biasing the panels from an external source to stimulate NIR light emission and using NIR cameras.