Sensor location

[VENKATESHYARAMACHA]

Hi, everyone. Hope all are doing well.

In the Analysis parameter section, we need to enter Mod wanted and Row wanted. I used 4L7 structure in the design. If I enter Mod wanted = 5 and Row wanted=4 then the yellow highlighted module will be the selected module. (refer to the attached 4L7 structurer image).

1. I entered no. of sensors =7. Then all sensors are located in a particular location. How this location is selected?

2. With the same number of sensors, same design I changed the Mod wanted = 6 and Row wanted=3 then the bifacial ratio value got changed. How the sensor location will impact the bifacial ratio?

3. Whether we can select the sensor location where we want?

[cdeline]

Hi Venkat, here are some responses.

1. The sensorsy variable selects the number of sensors to be deployed uniformly across the middle of your chosen module.
2. the bifacial ratio will change slightly depending on whether the module is in the interior of your array, or along an array edge. Moving closer to the edge of the array row will increase the amount of back-side irradiance collected by that module.
3. You can manually select the sensor location. This is a new feature in the current development branch, by manually specifying modscanfront and modscanback in the AnalysisObj.moduleAnalysis() function