Panda...Should I consolidate...Like this...

[saultienut]

I'm torn.  Many of our 'niche' ecommerce products rank ok, however I'm concerned that duplicate content is negatively effecting our overall rankings via Panda Algo.  Here is an example that can be found through quite a few products on the site.

This sub-category page (http://www.ledsupply.com/buckblock-constant-current-led-drivers) in our 'led drivers' --> 'luxdrive drivers' section has three products that are virtually identical with much of the same content on each page, except for their 'output current' - sort of like a shirt selling in different size attributes: S, M, L and XL.

I could realistically condense 44 product pages (similar to example above) down to 13 within this sub-category section alone (http://www.ledsupply.com/luxdrive-constant-current-led-drivers).  Again, we sell many of these products and rank ok for them, but given the outline for how Panda works I believe this structure could be compromising our overall Panda 'quality score', consequently keeping our traffic from increasing.

Has anyone had similar issues and found that its worth the risk to condense product pages by adding attributes?

If so, do I make the new pages and just 301 all the old URLs or is there a better way?

[saultienut]

I thought this question would be very interesting to lots of people.  someone please!