Solar Panels

The most common encapsulant is polyurethane.

When I worked at BP Solar, that's what we used in the panels. Essentially the panel was evacuated with a vacuum pump. Then urethane was injected into the void.

Panels were good for 20 years or so.

Or how about sandwiching it between a second piece of glass?

I would look into what 3M sells...

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/dyneon_fluoropolymers/Home/

I suggest that you try one of the following Di-electric encapsulating products:

1). Dow-Corning I-2620, a 1-part low VOC conformal encapsulating product.

2). Dow-Corning Sylgard 184, a 2-part encapsulating product.

There's also a Dow-Corning Silicone sealant that's need to seal the front and rear panels to the surrounding frame...I can't remember the product name at this time....works great (adhesion bonding and temp characteristics) on aluminum frames, glass and and all sorts of plastics)

You can buy these products on Ebay (cheaply) or directly from Dow-Corning, or you use to be able to do so!

I've build several DIY solar PV panels and had great success with both products. The are other, but they're hard to come by unless you're a PV manufacturer....larger quantities, more expensive, and generally sold only directly to the PV manufacturers.

If you have never built a solar PV panel before you must be aware of several pitfalls that can happen to you while building them.

If you can drop a note into my CR4 Forum email box and provide your private email Addie I can send you a very good and through "how to" PDF that shows you step-by-step instructions of how to properly build your panels, large or small or in-between. This guide simplifies the build and takes out the "magic" connotations.

Please let me know if you want it, okay? Word of warning.....promise not to share it with anyone online or elsewhere, because it is Copyright material that I personally bought. I don't want to be op[en to a lawsuit to the Author's attorneys/

Have a great sunny day!