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To simplify the question, the rest of this post analyzes a PV system with a
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shade obstacle like a wind turbine tower, a telephone pole, or a chimney, that casts shade
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perpendicular to the strings. My analysis is in this Jupyter notebook on Google Colaboratory:
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[mismatch_vs_strings.ipynb](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1b2Ll7G-4WBKPl57m-FPBhU8MLjLOTfIb)
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[`mismatch_vs_strings.ipynb`](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1b2Ll7G-4WBKPl57m-FPBhU8MLjLOTfIb)
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>TL;DR: When shade cuts perpendicular to strings, cells go into reverse bias,
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bypass diodes activate in the shaded submodules, and the other modules operate
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A look at the module IV curves tells the rest of the story. The shaded module
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still has to carry the 5[A] of the string, but 2 bypass diodes are triggered
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so the voltage is down 75%. Note: these are SunPower/Maxeon 310[W] modules,
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so the voltage is down 75%. Note: these are SunPower/Maxeon 320[W] modules,
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that have 96-cells in 8-columns with 3 bypass diodes in a 24-48-24 cell arrangement.
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![20 string PV system with cross-string shade](./images/cross-string-mismatch/pvmod0-20strings.png)
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![20 string PV system with cross-string shade](./images/cross-string-mismatch/pvmod1-20strings.png)
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Please check out [`mismatch_vs_strings.ipynb`](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1b2Ll7G-4WBKPl57m-FPBhU8MLjLOTfIb)
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because the 1-string example isn't limited by the voltage of parallel strings, so it's free to operate at the max power
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point, and the losses are lower. Recall in the 20-string example, the shaded string lost about 15%, but in the 1-string
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example, the loss was only about 8%. Another variation is allowing the shade to cross two or more strings. I covered
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a scattershot of scenarios and found that parallel string voltage began to dominate sowmhere between 5 to 10 strings.
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Of course, that only applies in this contrived example, but it was interesting nonetheless.
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## Conclusion
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I wish I could say, "that's all there is to it." But as my first blog post
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says, electrical mismatch in crystalline silicon is very counter-intuitive.

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