Solar Panel Laminators | Solar Panel Laminator

How Do Solar Laminator Work?

The process of manufacturing the solar panel requires a temperature control, pressure and vacuum process to get all the air out. All of the different components that make up a solar panel have to be heated up to bond everything together. Of course you have to have the heat to get it up to temperature so that the materials will bond properly. You have to have a control vacuum process to get the volatiles out so you don’t end up with bubbles or discontinuities in the panel. And then you have to be able to apply mechanical pressure to it to kind of squeeze it all together under pressure. So that’s what a solar panel laminator does. It gives you temperature, mechanical pressure and vacuum control to be able to successfully laminate the panel together successfully. There are lots of different types of laminators out there. High volume production laminators, which are made for making lots of panels an hour, and are multimillion-dollar pieces of equipment.

A small manufacturer obviously has a hard time coming up with that amount of money to buy a laminator. Where can they get laminators that are really intended for development and short-run manufacturing? And that’s why we decided to develop various Bent River solar panel laminators. The solar laminators that we build and manufacture are really geared toward people that are doing research and development on panels and smaller, short-run manufacturing people that really can’t afford to spend two or three million dollars on a big production laminator. Our laminators are really for development and short-run manufacturing.

There are different sizes up to and including very large laminators to fairly small laminators. Bent River offers the following sizes of Solar Laminators:

Our Newest Models…

Model SPL2828 PIN

Model SPL5075 PIN

Model SPL2460

The numbers strictly represent the panel size. Everything else about the Bent River Solar Laminators are in essence, the same.

However, the feature that we have that is unique to some laminators is that these are pin laminators. So pins come up for the vacuum step. That’s the very first step where you’re trying to get all the air out of the panel. And the pins pull the panel up, away from the hot platen so that the hot glue or the EBA inside the panel doesn’t begin to melt immediately (because that can cause contamination where all the air is not able to get out). So that’s a function that not all laminators have but all of the Bent River Solar Laminators have that function.

We’ve discovered that there’s an application as well, for flat panel development and design. If companies are experimenting with or do flat panels, all the touch panels and all the amazing products that are out there right now, the Kindles, the books. Those can also be laminated in one of our laminators.

At Bent River, we have a fairly sophisticated control system in it that is designed to allow research and development folks to experiment with different processes. We have very precise control of all of the process parameters so they can do experimentation and process qualification. There is a mode that you can put our laminators in for manufacturing, where it will just run the same production recipe over and over and over again with operators. It also has a mode that is very hands on driven for the research and development folks, which is kind of unique for laminators.

Solar Laminators ‘Trial Run Before You Buy’ Program:

There are lots of companies we talk to trying to develop something new in a solar panel so the efficiency in the panel is up. So, we’ve decided is to offer to laminate some samples, to prove out that our laminator would work for them and be a good fit for their process that they have. The people that would qualify are the people that are serious about purchasing a solar laminator but we want a test run before the purchase. If you have an actual design Bent River will be able to do some free laminations of samples for prospective customers.

How To Get Started With The ‘Trial Run Before You Buy’ Program:

First step is to contact us. We would need to understand the specifics.

Step 1: Have Bent River sign an NDA with you (so you can protect your new design).

Step 2: Explain what you need as far as lamination.

Step 3: Provide Bent River with at least, four to six samples (we have to make adjustments to the machines because of all the variabilities to try to get a good lamination).

Step 4: Check the size of your samples. Samples must be smaller than 27 by 27 inches.

Step 5: Send samples to Bent River Machine for lamination.

Step 6: Bent River performs trial on laminations for you and sends panels back to you.

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