I have some photovoltaic panels with intermittent contacts. When I flex / press on the back of the panel the output will (sometimes) reach nominal values, otherwise remain low (not zero) The break is somewhere in the general real estate and not at the lugs. The back of the panel is covered by plastic + aluminum foil, glued no doubt by state of the art process 1990. Removing the foil to find the bad spot(s) is not a likely option - skinning the patient to set a bone - but if I can pinpoint the break I'll go in! Is there a signal I can feed into the panel from the lugs, and map the traces with some kind of pickup? Thanks Fritz
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15 years ago