Neuchâtel and the lake Neuchâtel

Located in Valangin, near Neuchâtel / Switzerland, in the midst of a lovely region renowned for watchmaking industry, Belval S.A. develops and produces under the Pasan-brand highly advanced systems for the measurement of photovoltaic cells and modules.

The dynamic company with 15 employees has already installed more than 100 systems worldwide. The manufacturing program consists of Sun Simulators, Cell Testers, Cell Sorters and Shuntometers.

Castle and old town of Valangin

	Pasan Sun Simulator with Tunnel

Pasan
All Pasan equipments are based on xenon single-flash technology, giving closest approach to spectral irradiance of sun, with negligible heating of module or cell to be tested. Pasan systems are developped with high-accuracy in mind.

The most important parameter is light uniformity on device under test. Pasan Cell Testers and Sun Simulators largely exceeds requirements of most demanding IEC standards.
 
Belval proposes various softwares to meet different requirements. For laboratory, the company has developped fully parametrable programs, while for production features as automatic sorting, statistical analysis, log files and label printing are available.

PET
Furthermore Belval SA represents the continnous-light Sun Simulators of Photo Emission Tech. (PET), Newbury Park/CA in Europe.
 

Meterdrive products are applicable for lengths up to 250 m

Meterdrive
The second activity of the company consists of Meterdrive displacement detectors based on a perforated stainless steel ribbon and associated optoelectronic detectors.

Meterdrive products are applicable for large lenghts up to 250 m.