{"id":2017,"date":"2012-10-22T18:53:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T09:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2017-04-28T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T04:47:07","slug":"poly-vs-multi-crystalline-solar-panels-lets-put-this-argument-to-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/poly-vs-multi-crystalline-solar-panels-lets-put-this-argument-to-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Poly vs. Monocrystalline Solar Panels &#8211; Let&#8217;s put this argument to bed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One steaming pile of Solar BS that you hear all the time from worst sales people in this industry &#8211; who will feed you any line to get a sale &#8211; is that polycrystalline panels are better than monocrystalline solar panels, or vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>In this video I finally get off my chest why you should avoid anyone spouting such drivel:<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"What Is The Difference Between The 3 Major Solar Panel Technologies?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xn78SHbhQvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Transcript follows if you don&#8217;t like listening to angry, sweary solar geeks, and I go into great detail about the two technologies over on the main site:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More info on the main site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 3 major <a title=\"Photovoltaic Solar Panels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/photovoltaic\/\">Photovoltaic Solar Panel technologies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>How <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/photovoltaic\/monocrystalline\/\">monocrystalline solar panels are made<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>How p<a title=\"Polycrystalline Solar Panels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/photovoltaic\/polycrystalline\/\">olycrystalline panels are made<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A detailed argument as to why the<a title=\"mono vs poly\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/photovoltaic\/monocrystalline-vs-polycrystalline\/\"> monocrysrtalline vs. polycrystalline argument is a load of tosh<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the video transcript is here:<\/p>\n<p>Hi! I&#8217;m Finn Peacock. Here&#8217;s a sticky question, what&#8217;s the difference between the three major solar panel technologies; that is mono-crystalline, multi-crystalline or poly-crystalline (same thing) and the wild card: thin film solar.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with mono-crystalline and multi-crystalline, it&#8217;s an easy answer, there&#8217;s no difference! I say that because I get emails all the time, &#8220;oh this solar sales guy that sells mono-crystalline solar panels, he tells me that multi-crystalline solar panels are crap.&#8221; And I hear exactly the opposite from the guys that sell multi-crystalline solar panels they say, &#8220;oh this is better for Aussie conditions, that&#8217;s better for Aussie conditions&#8221;, pure bullshit!<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, this might have been true, I won&#8217;t go into details, but solar panel technologies have come on. A good mono-crystalline solar panel and a good multi-crystalline solar panel &#8211; to all practical purposes &#8211; perform identically, so don&#8217;t get hung up over mono or multi, mono or poly. Just get a good brand of solar panel, okay.<\/p>\n<p>Where there is a difference between solar panel technologies is thin film solar, thin film solar is a completely different way of making solar panels and I&#8217;m not a big fan of them, I&#8217;ve got to say. For a start, they have half the efficiency, which means that they take up twice as much space on your roof, so you need a huge roof to get any decent size solar system. One of the advantages that people claim for them is that they&#8217;re shade tolerant &#8211; that winds me up. There is no such thing as a shade tolerant and solar panel! 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