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New Design In AC Solar Panels Combines DC Panels And Enphase Micro Inverters

Why you should consider AC Solar Panels

Since solar panels are manufactured from like materials to computer electronics, we get more for less in smaller and smaller packaging. Many of the same rules of computer components apply to solar technology, since most of a solar photovoltaic system is electronics.

Traditionally designed solar photovoltaic systems use strings of solar panels hooked in series to combine the low wattage in each panel and add together a large stream of direct current (DC) electricity which is then sent to a central inverter, which converts all the DC electricity from the solar strings into alternating current (AC) electricity, the stuff we use in our homes and businesses.

You will find that the inverters are nothing more than electronics, and the primary system component solar companies are gaining the same economies of scale as {occurs in computer technology|we see in computers). Most inverter design houses have developed what is referred to as a microinverter, an inverter that operates with just a single solar panel, instead of a large arrays of panels wired together into an array.

Todays latest technology gives us solar panels and micro-inverters. Next generation systems combine panels and inverters into an integrated component, and therefore the AC solar panel was invented. And with AC solar panels comes the ease of purchasing panels as needed and hooking them up yourself.

AC panels, or DC panels and micro-inverters such as the Enphase M190 have many distinct advantages over traditionally designed solar photovoltaic systems. The best part is, much less math is required, since there is no longer any sizing of arrays of modules to leg of electricity inside the inverter. Yeah, that hurt just to read it. What it means that solar has moved into the control of the masses, to something the average do it yourselfer can accomplish over a weekend at home.
Another big advantage has to do with sun coverage. In current solar system design, if a few panels in an array are sun blocked, or parts of more than a few panels are not in the sun, the array may not produce enough power to drive the inverter, which may mean little or no electricity being created by the system, even if parts of the array are in the sun. With AC solar panels having their own microinverter built in, if the panel is in the sun, it is generating juice, even if the panels on either side of it are blocked from the sun. Measured over years, this can significantly increase the amount of power from your solar electric system.

AC solar panels are simply the next logical step in solar photovoltaic systems. You gain the same advantage today combining DC solar modules with Microinverter Technology.

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