I have an existing ~11 year old Enphase M215-based system (with 2 or 3 warranty replacements in that time span) using 265w panels. I ran across a post for some used Qcell 315w panels (40.29 Voc) locally that should physically fit on my racking (I left the rails a little long), and I am interested in getting more area under the curve. I am prone to making decisions based on them being interesting, not necessarily financially prudent, but I wanted to make sure there aren't any major gotchas.
The array is oriented pretty close to 135 degrees, so I'm already off-azimuth from nominal. Looking through data for this year, I'm not seeing any inverters hit more than about 210 watts. I think when everything was brand new, they did clip a small amount.
Would 315w panels (probably degraded a bit) on M215s be a terrible idea? On a cold day (midwest), would I potentially be in danger of exceeding the input voltage?
The array is oriented pretty close to 135 degrees, so I'm already off-azimuth from nominal. Looking through data for this year, I'm not seeing any inverters hit more than about 210 watts. I think when everything was brand new, they did clip a small amount.
Would 315w panels (probably degraded a bit) on M215s be a terrible idea? On a cold day (midwest), would I potentially be in danger of exceeding the input voltage?