smeredith Posted Wednesday at 07:29 PM Posted Wednesday at 07:29 PM In PVsyst's documentation, it's stated that due to computational problems, PVsyst requires that the saturation current of a module at STC (I0_ref) be at least 0.01 pA, or 1e-14 A. However, after playing around with the single-diode parameters of modules in PVsyst, it seems like in reality the minimum saturation current of a module is 0.01 nA, or 1e-11 A. This is 1000 times greater than what is stated in the documentation. Is the value quoted in the documentation an error? Or is there something else going on here? Attached is a screenshot of the documentation text for reference.
smeredith Posted Wednesday at 07:34 PM Author Posted Wednesday at 07:34 PM After posting this, I realized the documentation may be referring to the saturation current evaluated at the actual cell temp, rather than the reference value. Is that the case?
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