TESTING OF PV CONNECTORS

The paper presents the reliability study on field-aged photovoltaic connectors of different makes, collected from solar PV plants situated in different regions across India, each characterized by diverse climatic conditions having an operational life of two to ten years. A series of tests conforming to IEC 62852 incorporating C-AST is conducted on connectors encompassing both field-aged and control samples. Thereafter these samples and new field-aged samples underwent SEM for further analysis.