SOLAR INVERTER
- The Solar Inverter ways to incorporate solar energy into your home.
- one of the first things you knowing that the electricity created by solar panels
- Also called direct current electricity or DC.
- The power that is stored in the batteries of a solar system is also DC.
- While this type of electricity is used by many appliances and machines
- it is not what is used in homes.
SOLAR INVERTER WORKS OUT OF THE NETWORK
- The power of a solar panel to supplement or replace the electricity that would traditionally come from the grid
- An inverter is needed to change the electricity generated by the DC to AC or alternating current panel.
- Therefore it is necessary that you know how a solar inverter works outside the network.
- There are many types of inverters available.
- All perform the same basic function of converting the power from DC to AC,
- For starters, the inverters used in a solar system in the network are simply used
- Convert the DC power that enters the solar panel into AC
- Off-grid solar systems involve solar panels and battery storage
- so energy can reach the home from any of these two sources at any given time
- depending on the solar situation.
- several inverters may be necessary
- such as an inverter connected to the network or pure sine wave inverters as well as a charge controller.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOLAR INVERTER
- Solar Inverter
- Micro Inverter
Solar Inverter
- A Solar battery inverter would handle the energy that reaches the house from the battery source.
- Also usually responsible for managing the charging and discharging of the battery
- The difference between the two has to do with the way solar panels are arranged within the solar system.
- The DC power generated by the chain comes in a single connection from the end of the line to the solar inverter.
- At this point, the solar inverter converts the DC power into AC power and sends it for use in the home.
Micro Inverter
- The second form of the solar inverter is the micro inverter.
- usually in the back,
- Obviously, as the number of panels in a system increases,
- the number of micro inverters needed increases by the same amount.
- The AC power now flows from the individual panels to the home control panel for use.
- Although it may seem more convenient and cost effective to use a single chain inverter in a system that uses multiple panels,
- it may actually be better to use micro inverters in each panel for several reasons.
- as it travels along the chain and the load placed on each inverter does not risk overwhelming it,
- while a chain configuration is a bit more risky
- The use of micro inverters is also useful if there is a malfunction in the panel or in the inverter.
- In a string system, this could affect the whole group and make diagnosis difficult,
- but in a system that uses strictly micro inverters,
- it is easier to diagnose the problem and replace the defective part without altering the general configuration.
AC
- Just make a quick dive into basic electrical engineering to understand what is happening here.
- As we have established, the power generated by solar panels is DC while the power that our homes use is CA.
- The characteristic difference between these two is that the current of electricity
- Direct current goes in a single constant direction while the current of electricity in the AC supply changes from one direction to the other many times per second.
DC
- Think of DC as a constant stream of electrons entering while
- AC is more like a line of electrons running in its place.
- The current inside the inverter starts to rise and fall instead of moving in a straight line.
- Then it goes out the other end of the inverter on an AC wave.
- There are many types of inverters that produce different AC outputs,
- from soft ware to square wave, and the voltage they can handle also varies,
- so it is important to research and get the right inverter for your system.
- The inverters are also not 100% efficient, since they require a little power to operate