🌡️ Find Faults Fast

Drone Thermal Solar Panel
Inspections

A solar panel can look perfectly clean and still be quietly underperforming. Our drone-mounted thermal cameras scan your whole array from above and map exactly which panels are losing you money — with a written report of every fault found.

Find The Faults Your Eyes Can't See

Hotspots, failed bypass diodes, cracked cells and dead strings don’t show up from the ground. They show up as heat. The old way to find them is a technician on your roof with a handheld camera, panel by panel — slow, costly, and on commercial roofs it means harnesses, permits and downtime.

A drone scans an entire residential array in minutes, and a commercial rooftop or solar farm in a fraction of the time ground inspection takes, with nobody walking on your roof or your panels.

Thermal imaging works best on clean panels, so booking an inspection alongside a professional clean gives you the clearest picture of your system’s true condition — and you only pay one call-out.

Eco Shine Solar drone pilot flying a thermal inspection at a New Zealand solar farm

Thermal Imaging

What a Thermal Inspection Finds

Every inspection produces a report that flags each affected panel and what the thermal signature suggests is wrong — so your installer or our team can fix exactly what needs fixing instead of guessing.

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Hotspots

Localised heat from damaged cells or baked-on soiling. Left alone, hotspots degrade panels permanently and in rare cases become a fire risk.

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Failed Bypass Diodes

A single failed diode can knock out a third of a panel's output while the system keeps humming along, looking normal.

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Dead Panels & Strings

On bigger systems, whole strings can drop out without anyone noticing until the power bill creeps up.

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Microcracks & Wiring Faults

Cell damage invisible from the surface is obvious in thermal, and loose or corroded connections run hot before they fail.

Straight From The Thermal Camera

Real captures from our drone inspections. Bright areas are heat — and unexpected heat means faults.

Drone thermal image of a commercial rooftop solar array captured by Eco Shine Solar
Thermal image showing heat signatures across solar panels during a drone inspection

Who Books Thermal Inspections

  • Homeowners whose generation has dropped and can’t work out why.
  • Commercial system owners who want a documented health check for insurance, warranty claims or asset management.
  • Solar farm operators needing regular O&M inspections across thousands of panels.
  • Buyers and sellers of properties with existing solar, as a pre-purchase check.

Inspections are quoted per project based on system size and location. Tell us roughly how many panels you have and we’ll come back with a price, usually same day.

Automated drone mission map covering a solar farm during a thermal inspection

How We Work

1 Book

Tell us roughly how many panels you have and where they are. We quote per project, usually same day.

2 Fly

We scan your whole array with the thermal drone — nobody on your roof, no downtime. Most residential systems take under an hour.

3 Report

You get a written report flagging each affected panel and what the thermal signature suggests is wrong, plus the images for your records.

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