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Has anyone tried those new "flexible" solar cells?
I've been installing regular silicon cells (polycrystaline) on my cars for while now, and I have never had a problem with them, until these last three snow storms we had. One of my hoods actually collapsed from having almost three feet of heavy, wet snow on it (and of course all the cells cracked and broke) but my other car, which hardly had a foot of snow on it came out looking like this.
I'm not sure if they cracked due to the weight of the snow bending the hood, or it was temperature related.... but I'm willing to bet it's the hood bending from the weight. I used 2-part epoxy to hold them onto the hood, then two coats of non-UV clear on top of them to protect and seal them.
Does anyone who tried this have any ideas, or should I just go with the flexible panels that they are now selling??? And how do they make the panels flexible? If they are crystaline cells, then won't they crack as well?
- Paul
I've been installing regular silicon cells (polycrystaline) on my cars for while now, and I have never had a problem with them, until these last three snow storms we had. One of my hoods actually collapsed from having almost three feet of heavy, wet snow on it (and of course all the cells cracked and broke) but my other car, which hardly had a foot of snow on it came out looking like this.
I'm not sure if they cracked due to the weight of the snow bending the hood, or it was temperature related.... but I'm willing to bet it's the hood bending from the weight. I used 2-part epoxy to hold them onto the hood, then two coats of non-UV clear on top of them to protect and seal them.
Does anyone who tried this have any ideas, or should I just go with the flexible panels that they are now selling??? And how do they make the panels flexible? If they are crystaline cells, then won't they crack as well?
- Paul
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