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Figure H.3. Current-voltage characteristic curves for a typical commercial PV
system at the light intensities given by Fig. H.2. The curves were generated using
Eqn. (H.12).

Table H.1. Normalised values for the currents and voltages corresponding to the five curves in
Fig. H.3.
curve 1 curve 2 curve 3 curve 4 curve 5
current voltage current voltage current voltage current voltage current voltage
0.000 19.6 0.000 19.5 0.000 19.3 0.000 18.8 0.000 17.2
0.113 19.4 0.113 19.3 0.113 19.1 0.113 18.5 0.034 16.8
0.226 19.3 0.226 19.1 0.226 18.8 0.226 18.0 0.066 16.5
0.339 19.0 0.339 18.9 0.339 18.5 0.283 17.7 0.090 16.1
0.451 18.8 0.451 18.6 0.451 18.1 0.339 17.4 0.113 15.5
0.564 18.5 0.564 18.2 0.508 17.9 0.395 16.9 0.124 15.2
0.678 18.1 0.678 17.7 0.564 17.6 0.429 16.6 0.135 14.7
0.734 17.8 0.734 17.4 0.598 17.3 0.451 16.2 0.141 14.3
0.790 17.5 0.791 16.9 0.632 17.1 0.474 15.8 0.147 13.8
0.847 17.0 0.824 16.5 0.654 16.8 0.485 15.5 0.152 13.2
0.881 16.7 0.847 16.1 0.678 16.6 0.497 15.1 0.154 12.8
0.903 16.4 0.858 15.9 0.702 16.2 0.508 14.5 0.157 11.8
0.925 16.0 0.869 15.6 0.722 15.8 0.512 14.2 0.158 11.3
0.937 15.7 0.880 15.3 0.734 15.5 0.514 14.1 0.159 10.4
0.949 15.3 0.892 14.8 0.745 15.1 0.517 13.8 0.160 9.5
0.960 14.9 0.903 14.2 0.750 14.9 0.519 13.6 0.160 0.0
0.965 14.7 0.909 13.6 0.756 14.6 0.521 13.3
0.971 14.3 0.914 12.8 0.762 14.2 0.523 13.0
0.976 13.9 0.916 12.2 0.765 14.0 0.525 12.5
0.981 13.3 0.917 11.8 0.768 13.7 0.526 12.2
0.987 11.8 0.919 10.4 0.770 13.5 0.527 11.8
0.989 10.4 0.920 8.4 0.772 13.2 0.528 11.3
0.990 8.0 0.920 0.0 0.773 13.0 0.529 10.4
0.990 0.0 0.776 12.2 0.530 0.0
0.777 11.8
0.778 11.3
0.780 0.0

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