Connected Solar Panels

This is important because solar energy is intermittent.

Connected solar panels.

There are 3 ways to connect solar panels. Connecting solar panels in parallel wiring solar panels in parallel implies connecting positive terminals of each panel together and wiring the negative terminals of each panel together as well. This means that the home will get electricity both from its solar panels and the electric grid. The first way i am going to talk about is parallel because this is probably the most common way that panels will be connected.

Home solar panels and the grid when a homeowner decides to add solar panels to their home in most cases they will choose to be grid connected. This power inverter converts the solar energy into energy that is consumable at home. Connect the solar panels either directly to a power inverter and then connect it to the home grid or connect the inverter to the battery and then to the home power grid. This is necessary because the current produced by the sun my vary depending on the intensity of the sunshine.

The connection of multiple solar panels in parallel arises from the need to reach certain current values at the output without changing the voltage. Then they are connected to the charge controller or to the inverter of the solar system. For this example i am showing you connecting panels that are for a 12 volt system. In fact by wiring several solar panels in series we increase the voltage keeping the same current while wiring them in parallel we increase the current keeping the same voltage.

Connecting solar panels to charge controller.