Solar Panel Thermal Imaging in Temple Terrace, FL

Why Temple Terrace homes need this service

• Shading loss separated from genuine module and diode failures
• Hot spots at connectors caused by rodent chew damage located precisely
• Drone plus handheld FLIR, with a written report and imagery

Local conditions we work around

• Dense oak canopy

  Leaf litter, acorns and small branches land directly on arrays and pack into the gap behind the lower row, where they hold moisture against the roof.

• Sap and honeydew

  Aphid honeydew from oaks leaves a sticky film that grabs every particle of dust that lands on it and needs pure water and dwell time to release.

• Biological growth

  Shade plus river humidity means algae and mildew along frame edges, which spreads inward across the glass if left.

Older mid-century homes with low-slope shingle and some flat and built-up roofing, plus barrel tile on the golf-course-adjacent properties. Older roof structures mean we are careful about load and always prefer ground-based work.

Drone and handheld radiometric scanning

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.

What infrared finds

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.