Electronic control of microwave antennas and circuits is usually based on the use of reverse biased semiconductor junctions. Optical control of such circuits has been by directly illuminating the active (depletion) regions of the semiconductor junctions. In this paper we report indirect optical control of microwave antennas and circuits using a photovoltaic array that generates a light dependen...

Faults of photovoltaic systems often result in an energy drop and therefore decrease the efficiency of the system. Detecting and analyzing faults is thus an important problem in the analysis of photovoltaic systems data. We consider the problem of estimating the starting time and end time of a fault, i.e. we want to locate the fault in time series data. We assume to know the power output, plane...

As photovoltaic systems become larger and more numerous, improved methods are needed for testing and modeling their performance. Test methods that successfully separate the interacting, time-of-day dependent influences of solar irradiance, operating temperature, solar spectrum, and solar angle-of-incidence have now been developed. These test methods have resulted in a new array performance mode...

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Knowledge of the charge efficiency of lead-acid batteries near top-of-charge is important to the design of small photovoltaic systems. In order to know how much energy is required from the photovoltaic array in order to accomplish the task of meeting load, including periodic full battery charge, a detailed knowledge of the battery charging efficiency as a function of state of charge is required...