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Aggreko to Light Up the Ryder Cup with 100 Generators, Battery Storage, and 91 Miles of Cable
From: AggrekoDescription: Aggreko will meet all power, heating, and cooling needs for the international golf event, which draws nearly 50,000 spectators each day ...
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Aggreko's World-Class Gas Plant to Slash CO2 Emissions at Gold Mine
From: AggrekoDescription: In what is a world-first for global energy provider Aggreko, the company has introduced its latest highly efficient next generation gas engines at a West Australian gold mine. ...
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Future Fuels: Replacing Diesel in Power Generation
From: AggrekoDescription: We are entering an age of accelerated electrification. Around the world, countries are seeking to cut carbon emissions by moving away from burning fossil fuels to produce electricity and by ...
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How to Deal with Unpredictable Weather at Your Event
From: AggrekoDescription: The weather is one of the only things we can't control, which makes planning and running an outdoor event particularly troublesome. ...
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How to Keep Hospitals Operational and Profitable During a Pandemic
From: AggrekoDescription: With all the additional costs hospitals have been faced with it's clear that they need to become more efficient to protect their profits. But at the same time, they have to be able to guarantee they ...
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Bidirectional Programmable DC Power Supplies Make Battery Testing Easier
Description: In order to keep up with advanced battery technology, manufacturers and users need battery test systems that are flexible and responsive. ...
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Bidirectional Supplies Source and Sink Power
Description: Many test applications require systems that both provide power and consume power. One of the most common applications for this type of functionality is battery testing. ...
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Repurposing and Recycling EV Batteries
Description: As they become more widely used, there is a question of how best to re-use or recycle the lithium-ion batteries that power these vehicles. ...
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Simulate Batteries with the EA Battery Simulator
Description: There are many advantages to simulating batteries when testing battery-powered equipment, battery chargers, or battery-management systems during design and production tests ...
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Benefits of Using Thin-Film Solar With A Flexible PC Board
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Integrating solar panels into a printed circuit board can make life a lot easier for product designers. What if the product design you are working on requires a PCB to be flexible? Luckily flexible ...
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Solar Energy Harvesting For IoT Explained
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Batteries are required for nearly every electronic device, it seems. They allow for simple operation and quick deployment. What happens when those batteries die? In this post we discuss the ...
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Driving Towards Greener Energy: Aggreko Powers the Open with Renewable Energy Solution
From: AggrekoDescription: Aggreko, the world-leading provider of mobile modular power, temperature control and energy services, has partnered with R&A to deliver a renewable power solution at the 149th Open Championship at ...
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How to Connect Flexible Solar To a PC Board
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: PV cells have the potential to supplement power to a wide range of IoT and battery-powered electronics. These devices are often compact and connecting a PV cell directly to the embedded PCB circuitry ...
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E-Mobility: Sustainable Battery Recycling with EA Electric Automatic
Description: E-mobility is booming. In 2020, the global fleet of electrically powered vehicles rose to 10.9 million, powered by lithium-ion batteries. However, with increasing operating time, the lithium-ion ...
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Solar Energy Harvesting Tools and Flexible PV Cells for IoT Devices
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: PowerFilm flexible PV cells and reference designs make implementing energy harvesting into your products more accessible. Our latest cells offer smaller form factors, ideal for the compact electronics ...
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10 MW Renewable Energy Solution Fueled by Biogas from Latin America's Largest Landfill Site to be Delivered by Aggreko
From: AggrekoDescription: * Eight state-of-the-art 1.25 MW gas generators across two landfill sites will provide 10 MW of renewable energy * The solution will power approximately 40,000 households in the region * Carbon ...
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3 Myths About Future Fuels Busted
From: AggrekoDescription: Hydrogen, HVO or FAME- there are many low-emission alternatives to diesel. Some are already available; others are still in development. It isn't easy to keep an overview of future fuels, and sometimes ...
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Aggreko and SailGP Announce New Three-Year Partnership to Deliver Sustainable Event Operations Powered by Nature
From: AggrekoDescription: Aggreko, the world-leading provider of mobile modular power, temperature control and energy services, has partnered with SailGP - the sport's pinnacle league - to support the championship's commitment ...
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Battery Storage to Supercharge Electric Vehicles
From: AggrekoDescription: Aggreko partners with Argonne National Laboratory to strengthen EV infrastructure ...
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First Battery in Turkey Commissioned by Aggreko to Stabilise National Grid
From: AggrekoDescription: Aggreko, the global leader in mobile and modular energy solutions, has successfully commissioned Turkey's first grid-stabilising battery. ...
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Ground-Breaking Hybrid Power System to Be Delivered by Aggreko for Gold Mine 4,500m Above Sea Level
From: AggrekoDescription: Aggreko to deliver 25.9 MW hybrid solution for gold mine which sits at altitude of 4,500m 16 MW of thermal and 9.9 MW solar PV, which represents Aggreko's largest solar PV installation in Latin ...
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How Can Power Distribution Make or Break Your Construction Project?
From: AggrekoDescription: We take electricity for granted in our day-to-day lives, but it's a different story when it comes to construction projects. Typically, jobsites begin where there is no built-in power source, so you're ...
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Powering a Greener Future with Gas-Battery Hybrids
From: AggrekoDescription: While the energy landscape seemed frozen in time for several decades from the 1950s until 2000, we have certainly come out of the ice age and are now headed, perhaps a little too quickly, to much ...
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Want to Know How to Get More Benefit from Your Planned Maintenance Outages?
From: AggrekoDescription: We get it. Downtime is a pain. You want production to be up and running at all times to maximize your profits. But you know that at some point a planned maintenance outage is necessary so you can ...
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Characterizing Your Indoor PV Energy Harvesting Environment: 5 Key Factors
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Harvesting indoor light energy is a viable power solution for many wireless sensors, trackers, and low-power devices used in a growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Indoor ...
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Aggreko's Solution Generates Power from Biogas from the Largest Landfill Site in Latin America
From: AggrekoDescription: Biogas power expertise and solution required for energy company ...
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Centralised Power for ESP's De-Risks Operations and Delivers Cost Savings
From: AggrekoDescription: THE CHALLENGE Reduce fuel consumption and associated operations and maintenance costs with alternative power approach ...
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Efficient and Cost Effective HFO Power Plant for Madagascar
From: AggrekoDescription: THE CHALLENGE-Deliver stable power and lower the total cost of energy ...
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Engineering a Novel Solution for Gas to Power Drilling Rigs
From: AggrekoDescription: The challenge-Develop a solution that enables gas generators to handle typical swing loads of a drilling rig and reduce costs by monetising APG ...
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Flare to Power Firs to Oman
From: AggrekoDescription: THE CHALLENGE Design and engineer a flare gas to power solution for critical oilfield areas ...
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Power and Load Bank Support Enables Overhaul of NOC's Jack-up Rig
From: AggrekoDescription: THE CHALLENGE Power for upward and downward jacking during refurbishment and conversion of jack-up rig ...
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Preventing Bottlenecks and Sustaining Naphtha Production During the Summer Months
From: AggrekoDescription: THE CHALLENGE Sustaining a hydrocracker at maximum throughput during summer and avoiding downtime ...
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Rapid and Modular Power Solution to Commission World's Largest Stacker for Ambitious Mine Project
From: AggrekoDescription: THE CHALLENGE Extra power to meet load demands from largest ore stacker in the world ...
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Wet Stacking Prevention Technologies for CAT® 3500 Diesel Generator Sets
Description: What is wet stacking and what causes it? What technologies has Caterpillar implemented to help prevent wet stacking? This paper answers these questions while explaining the cylinder cutout strategies ...
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Six Questions to Ask Before Designing a Solar Solution
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: To many, solar is a fascinating but confusing technology. There are so many factors to think through and variables to consider. It would be enough to make anyone's head spin. That's where we come ...
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What You Need to Know About Indoor Solar
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Indoor solar is somewhat of an oxymoron. How can a solar panel work without sunlight? Solar panels, or Photovoltaics (PV), work via the photoelectric effect, which converts light into electricity. ...
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Combined Heat and Power and A Changing Climate: Reducing Emissions and Improving Resilience
Description: The global climate is changing, and many are working to reduce emissions and build up resiliency across sectors, including electricity generation, transportation, industry, and commercial and ...
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Controlling Acid Gas Mists
Description: New and strict regulations in metallurgical plants worldwide are restricting particulate and acid gas emissions to extremely low levels. Because of that, sulphuric acid plants are being installed to ...
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Gas Cleaning
Description: An Integral Step in Biomass Gasification ...
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Sourcing Sulfur
Description: Sulfuric acid is a major industrial chemical used to produce end products, such as fibers, chemical compounds, paints, detergents, and dyes. The most abundant amount of sulfuric acid production is ...
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Wet Electrostatic Precipitators
Description: A preferred Technology for Emission Control ...
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Wet Electrostatic Precipitators: The Proven Technology for Sulfuric Acid Gas Cleaning
Description: Since the wet electrostatic precipitator (WESP) achieved emission control of gas streams by removing up to 99.9% of the submicron particulate matter, it was evident the WESP system would be a perfect ...
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Our Custom Solar Design Process
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Inspiration can strike at a moment's notice. One minute you're at a cafe sipping coffee and reading a magazine when all of a sudden, the lightbulb turns on, and your next great product idea is born. ...
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What Features are Most Important for Energy Harvesting PMICs?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Energy Harvesting Power Management ICs (EH PMIC) are critical components of energy-autonomous electronics. They connect PV, energy storage, and the load ensuring power flows efficiently between all ...
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43 Percent of U.S. Power Generation is from Gas-fired Power Plants
From: Conax TechnologiesDescription: According to a new report from the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA), gas-fired power plants accounted for nearly half of U.S. electricity generating capacity last year. A recent article ...
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How T&D Companies Can Reduce Planned Outages During Grid Modernization
From: AggrekoDescription: Grid modernization projects are necessary to ensure the grid is resilient for their customers for years to come. The challenge T&D companies face is that in order to modernize the grid sometimes they ...
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The Increasing Importance of Remote Monitoring in These Troubled Times
From: AggrekoDescription: What happens if your generator overheats? If your chiller breaks down? If you run out of fuel faster than you expected? After all, you can't do everything at once. You can't be certain when a unit is ...
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When will Battery Storage Power O&G Applications?
From: AggrekoDescription: From carbon capture to addressing flaring to making their operations as efficient as possible, O&G companies around the world are striving to find innovative ways to reduce their emissions where they ...
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Aggreko Completes Renewable Microgrid at Gold Mine
From: AggrekoDescription: Project will reduce fuel consumption by 10-13% and cut carbon emissions ...
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Aggreko Passes 1GW Milestone in Flare Gas to Power Generation Projects
From: AggrekoDescription: The IEA has called flared gas a "wasted economic opportunity", and flare to power technologies are set to grow in popularity as companies and oil-producing nations look to cut carbon emissions. ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Peak Shaving for Manufacturing Facilities
From: AggrekoDescription: Peak shaving has been heralded as an innovative way to cap your energy spending and improve power reliability in manufacturing facilities. ...
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Industrial IoT is Revolutionizing Oil and Gas
From: AggrekoDescription: How do you stay competitive in a volatile market? How do you make your refinery more cost-efficient and profitable without putting people at risk? ...
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Sparking Change: the Five Drivers of Growth in the Flare Gas to Power Market
From: AggrekoDescription: We have identified five factors which are driving growth in demand within the flare gas to power sector. ...
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Amorphous vs Crystalline: The Best Technology For Your Application
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: In the age of portable electronics, companies need unique ways to power products that enhance value, lead to a great customer experience and make business sense. Often grid power is unavailable, and ...
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Calculating Your Power Budget
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: There are many considerations when calculating your power budget. ...
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Charge Controllers Limiting Your Losses
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Often you might think about inexpensive batteries versus their elite counterpart, but many times we neglect the importance of a charge controller in the solar collection process. ...
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Comparing Solar Charge Controllers
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Solar panels provide meaningful power at home, on the road and anywhere you need it. A complete solar solution includes the panel, a storage device which is usually a battery, and a charge controller ...
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Custom Solar Panel Options
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: In the solar industry, one size does not fit all. PowerFilm's unique technology and custom solar capabilities enable us to develop power solutions that match the requirements of an application ...
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Determining Voltage & Current
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: How can you determine voltage and current of a solar module? This is a pretty common question so let's dive right in. The voltage of a solar module is based on the number of cells in a module. ...
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Energy Harvesting Methods
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: In 2025 there are projected to be over 70 billion connected electronic devices worldwide. Every electronic device needs power to operate which usually comes in the form of a battery. Batteries are ...
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How Does Partial Shade Affect Solar Panels?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Solar panels love the sun. They perform best when they're in it and angled appropriately, but what happens when these ideal conditions aren't achievable? What happens to a solar panel when it's ...
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How Does Temperature Affect Solar Panels?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Temperature, both hot and cold, are vital parts of determining how well a solar panel will operate and has to be accounted for when designing a solution. ...
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How To Choose The Best Solar Panel For Your Application
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Over the years many different types of photovoltaics (PV) have been created, each possesses unique qualities, but one thing remains true, all applications aren't necessarily satisfied by the same ...
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How To Size A Solar Panel For Your Battery
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: How do you determine the power output required from a solar panel to recharge a battery based on current load? This is a great question and important when thinking about what solar panel to select ...
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How To Use Our Custom Solar Panel Design Tool
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: PowerFilm has been providing custom solar solutions in the IoT, military, and commercial spaces for over 30 years. But what does that mean? Due to the many parameters and complexity of our process, ...
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Indoor Solar: Powering A Bluetooth Beacon
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Beacons don't waste power maintaining a connection, are one of the lowest power wireless protocols available and ideal candidates for indoor solar. ...
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Indoor Solar: Powering A Bluetooth Door Lock
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Solar isn't just for rooftops with direct sunlight anymore, many electronics can be powered using solar in shady and even indoor conditions. ...
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Indoor Solar: Powering Higher Draw Devices
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: In some cases, devices may require more power than a reasonably sized solar panel can produce. If the device doesn't need to run continuously, a solar solution is usually still possible. ...
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IoT Solutions For All Industries
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: The Internet of Things (IoT) industry isn't slowing down any time soon. It's picking up pace. More devices than ever before are simplifying our everyday life, tracking cargo, assisting in logistics, ...
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New Energy Harvesting Solar Development Kit with e-peas PMIC and CAP-XX Supercapacitors
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: An effective solar energy harvesting solution requires more than just a solar panel. We have partnered with e-peas, an energy harvesting PMIC solution provider, and thin prismatic supercapacitor ...
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Outdoor vs Indoor Solar: The Key Differences
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Can I use my solar panel indoors? We get that question a lot at PowerFilm. The answer isn't as cut and dry as you might think. To our eyes, indoor environments seem pretty bright. That's only ...
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Owning The Process
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: What does it mean to truly own something? To control the ins and outs of a process until you are almost one with it? To ensure things fit, perform and make sense? ...
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Power Supplies vs Solar Panels
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: When people think of a power supply they typically think of a device that will put out a constant voltage and supply current to a device as necessary. A solar panel, on the other hand, will vary its ...
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PowerFilm Extreme Durability Test
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: While it is important to take care of things, do you ever feel like putting something to the ultimate test? I do. "Let's see what kind of damage this thing can take and still function," I say to ...
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Prototyping With Solar Energy Harvesting
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: "Energy Harvesting." This buzz word sounds straightforward, but what does it actually mean? Where does this energy come from, and how do you "harvest" it? Is it useful for real-life solutions? How ...
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Seasonality of Solar
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: You might have wondered, how do shorter days affect solar? Well, as I'm sure you can imagine, they don't produce as much energy. Many environmental factors affect the amount of light your panels ...
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Solar Cell Efficiency
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: What exactly does solar cell efficiency mean? If you've spent any time in the solar industry you understand that one of the first questions out of a person's mouth when it comes to solar technology ...
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Solar Doesn't Have To Be Scary
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: To many, solar isn't just confusing; it's downright scary. There are so many factors to think through, so many variables to consider. It would be enough to make anyone frightful. Luckily, that's ...
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Solar Intensity: Looks Can Be Deceiving
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: It looks bright, why doesn't my solar panel produce more power? This is a fantastic question and one that we get a lot. The root of this issue is actually our eyes. ...
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Solar Panel Encapsulation: Why It Matters
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Lamination affects every single thing you tested and is an incredibly important piece of the solar-build puzzle -- one that is often neglected or not understood entirely. It is a balancing act in ...
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Solar Power For Commercial IoT
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: As the IoT industry rapidly expands into commercial, consumer, and industrial spaces, new and innovative ways to power the increasing number of connected devices are needed to ensure sustainability, ...
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Solar Power For Consumer IoT
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: In the consumer world, convenience is king. Consumers want devices and systems that are easy to use and dependable. The best consumer IoT solutions are those that people can set up and forget about. ...
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Solar Power For Industrial IoT
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Like commercial businesses, companies in the industrial space are also driven by cost saving. Although they can benefit from building automation and asset management systems just like commercial ...
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Solar Powered Asset Tracking
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: In today's hyper-competitive landscape, businesses are looking for any way possible to get more out of less. Modern technology gives businesses the tools they need to make smart, data-driven ...
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Solar Powering Your IoT Devices
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: It seems that everywhere you go these days people are talking about IoT. Whether it's smart light bulbs that respond to your voice or sensors that transmit data, these devices are everywhere. While ...
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The Triple Test
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: At PowerFilm we take great pride in our products and quality is of the utmost importance. To ensure quality at a reasonable price, periodic tests are performed throughout the manufacturing process. ...
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Top Three Solar Myths
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Today we are going to address solar's most famous myths, why they are so attractive and the truth behind them. ...
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When To Use A Charge Controller
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: When do I need a charge controller to charge a battery with a solar panel? This is a very common question and one that is absolutely crucial. In most cases you will need some type of a charge ...
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Which Battery Chemistry Is Best?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Batteries are everywhere. They're in a seemingly endless number of devices we use from cell phones, remotes, Bluetooth speakers, GoPro cameras and everything in between. While batteries are nothing ...
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Which IoT Radio Is Best?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: The world of IoT is rapidly developing and changing. Since the industry itself is still in its infancy, there are many options for radios and varying standards for different IoT segments. When ...
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Which Portable Solar Technology Is Best?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: When you think of solar panels you might picture large expansive solar fields or an array of solar panels installed on a home near where you live. While "solar farms" and building-integrated solar ...
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Whole Cells vs Cut Cells: What's The Difference?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: There are incredibly inexpensive options that are attractive at first blush, but when you dig deeper the quality of these panels and their assembly process leave much to be desired. ...
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Will A Solar Panel Work Behind Glass?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Through the years we have fielded almost every solar related question you can imagine. One that consistently comes up is the possibility of collecting solar energy through glass. Let's explore if ...
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Your Power Budget
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Taking a product "off grid" and having the piece of mind that it will continue to work year after year at the highest level is no simple task. Understanding the power budget of your system is a ...
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Benefits of Single Cell Solar Designs
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Solar panels are typically made up of many cells connected in series, which increase the output voltage of the panel. Multiple cells used to be a requirement when circuitry could not run on low ...
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Solar Solutions For Transportation Part 2: Telematics
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Telematics is a growing field in the industry allowing fleet managers and dedicated telematics solution providers to dramatically improve fleet operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. What ...
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Solar Solutions for Transportation Part 3: Battery Maintenance
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Commercial vehicles and trailers have a surprising number of batteries to power auxiliary systems including APU (Auxiliary Power Units) battery banks, the truck battery itself, and liftgate batteries. ...
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"Sealed Maintenance-Free" Batteries. What a Myth!
Description: The term "Sealed Maintenance-Free," in my opinion, is a marketing-driven term. In the early 1980's, when telephone Private Branch Exchanges (PBX's) were being deployed into customer premises, computer ...
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Solar Energy Harvesting vs Coin Cell Battery: Which is Better?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Many microcontrollers, sensors, and reference designs are built around coin cell batteries, making designing with them very easy. Since they are so popular, mass production has also made them very ...
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Do IoT Devices Really Need Batteries?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: With millions of sensors, beacons, trackers, nodes, and devices, the Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding into every nook and cranny of the modern world. What do all these devices have in common? ...