An inverter’s main task is to take high voltage DC electricity created by your photovoltaic solar panels, and convert it into usable AC electricity.
Your Solar Inverter is the brains of the outfit (although a PowerBOS is the true genius). The SkySolar Inverter takes the energy produced by your Solar Panels and distributes it into your electric power board. It is then used by your home or business electrics and appliances. Excess unused energy is distributed back into the local power grid.
Here’s a quick illustrated video showing the basics:
There are different types of inverters to suit different solar installations. Most of the time your inverter will be matched specifically to perfectly harmonise with the number of panels you have. For example if you have 8 x 250W panels, we’ll recommend a 2kW inverter. Using a larger inverter initially with the aim of slowly adding more panels seems like a good idea but can often lead to the panels you have not generating enough power to even get the larger inverter working until much later in the day. A good example of matching inverters to panels can be seen in our November Special, a great deal on 1.5kW and 2kW systems bought in the month of November 2015.
There are regular inverters usually attached to a wall in the home, and micro-inverters attached directly to the back or the railings of your solar module. We’ll compare and contrast Micro Inverters with regular Inverters in our next How It Works article.
