A failing solar cell looks exactly like a working one. It only reveals itself as heat — and by the time the loss is obvious in your monthly bill, the fault has usually been degrading neighbouring cells for months. Infrared makes it visible in a single pass.
$200 flat residential · custom commercial quote
We fly a radiometric thermal camera over the full array under load, then follow up with handheld imaging on anything ambiguous or shaded. Radiometric means every pixel carries an actual temperature value, not just a false-colour gradient, so we can measure the delta between a suspect cell and its healthy neighbours instead of guessing from a pretty picture.
Single-cell hot spots from micro-cracks or manufacturing defects. Whole-substring heating that points to a failed bypass diode. Warm junction boxes and connectors that signal a resistive joint on its way to an arc fault. Reverse-biased shaded cells that soiling or a new tree branch has pushed into dissipating power instead of producing it.
Every inspection ends with a written report: annotated thermal and visible-light images of each flagged module, the measured temperature delta, a severity ranking, and a plain-language recommendation. It is formatted so you can hand it straight to your installer or manufacturer for a warranty claim.
$200 flat rate for residential systems anywhere in Hillsborough County. Commercial and multi-array sites are quoted per scope. Many owners pair the inspection with a cleaning visit, since a clean array produces cleaner thermal data.
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