What are the Other Varied Kinds of PV Solar Generators?
As soon as you have produced your monocrystalline solar panels. You now need to connect them to a system that will allow you to either use, store or feed to the grid the electricity you have generated. You probably have a rough idea of what you want your finished system to look like, but plan very carefully. Know exactly how many watts of energy you need and how many watts of energy your solar panels are capable of producing.
Transportable Solar Powered Generators
Smallest, cheapest and the most simple system. It only consists of four components – a battery or batteries, inverter, solar panel and the charge controller.
The important thing here is that you can increase the capacity of the system very easily just by adding more solar panels. Solar panels supply electricity as Direct Current. Your appliances use an Alternating Current, so the inverter converts DC to AC.
If you find yourself in the enviable position of having excess electricity, instead of wasting it, you can feed it to a battery bank. Do not use standard auto battery, use a deep cycle battery.
Solar Power For a Grid Tied Home
Are you tied to the national grid? If so then this is a very good system to use. Instead of storing the excess electricity in batteries, you feed it to the national grid. The benefit is you get paid by your supplier for producing the electricity, how cool is that.
Once you know how to do it, build a solar panel is very straight forward. It takes less than a day to manufacture a solar PV panel and in one year you can easily make 26 of them. You will be sending so much electricity back to the grid, that you can make a nice little income on-the-side to supplement all your other household bills.
Grid Tied Generator + Battery bank
To add more security to your power supply, you may want to consider having a battery bank to go with your grid tied system. Should you have a cloudy day, or at night when you are generating no power, what do you do then? The battery bank is a passive supply of electricity, which has been previously charged up with any unused electricity generated over the past couple of days.
Off-Grid Solar Power Generator
I would think that if you do not have electricity piped straight to your home then definitely look at having a battery bank integrated with your setup. And by having a battery back-up you will not have wasted any power you may have generated and not used.
Batteries perform better when they are warm so it is wise to invest in a battery box and keep them in your garage. Not only does the battery box keep your batteries warm they also prevent them from being tampered by children or animals. If a dog weed on a battery it would do a lot of damage let alone what it might do to the dog!
The other thing to bear in mind is that for long cloudy periods or during the winter when you don’t get much sun, it would be worthwhile connecting a traditional generator to your solar powered system.
Different Types of Solar Powered Systems For the Home
- Grid tied systems
- Solar panel with a battery backup
- On Grid + battery bank + generator
- Grid tied system without a battery bank
- Photovoltaic system without a battery backup
Read further about how to build a solar panel and in addition learn how to build a complete system for producing solar electricity for your property visit build a solar panel.
