NREL / bifacial_radiance

Toolkit for working with RADIANCE for the ray-trace modeling of Bifacial Photovoltaics
https://bifacial-radiance.readthedocs.io
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demo.makeModule parameters unclear #466

Open olipfeifferthkoeln opened 1 year ago

olipfeifferthkoeln commented 1 year ago

Hello,

i am experimenting with the demo.makeModule function. In Example 13 parameters of the function are given as shown in the picture below. About them i have a couple of questions:

  1. Since x and y are length and width of the module, z must be the thickness. Does z refer to the whole module with glass and frame, or just the cell? Because 0.0002 m seems too thin to be the thickness of the module.
  2. Is it possible to define the thickness of the glass when it is added to the module?
  3. Is it possible to consider an AR coating?
  4. What exactly is meant by xgap, ygap and zgap? From the descriptions given, I would think that the offset to the torque tube is meant. But how can there be a x or y offset between torque tube and module?

Since i couldn't find further information about this I kindly ask you for your help.

kind Regards Oliver Pfeiffer

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