Let’s get right down to the important facts.
Without a doubt, the most cost effective way to take advantage of electricity produced directly from the sun is to build your own solar panel system. Solar panel systems consist of a few basic components.
First and most noticeable are the panels of solar cells.
These are typically seen on the roofs of buildings and homes. They consist of arrays of silicon that convert sunlight directly into electricity.
Individual solar cells are combined to form modules. Modules are combined to form arrays ... and arrays are combined to form systems for homes or businesses.
Your system can start with one array that meets some of the power requirements you have or enough arrays to meet all your electricity needs. It’s up to you and your budget.
The solar panel arrays only produce electricity during the day, so the second important part of any complete system is a set of batteries where the electricity that is produced during the day can be stored for use at night.
In a typical home, more electricity is produced during the day than is used, and that means the excess can be stored in the batteries to turn on the lights, TVs, and appliances at night.
The third important component of a solar panel system is called an inverter.
This device converts the low voltage direct current that the arrays produce into 120 volt alternating current that is found in the typical home or business and that most of your electrical devices expect to be connected to.
It makes the electricity produced by the solar panels and stored in the batteries look just like the electricity that comes from the power company.
Finally, inverters have the ability to connect to the conventional power grid.
That means that your house will connect to both your solar power array and to the power company. This has two big advantages.
First, you know you will always have enough electricity because your home or business can always draw from the power company when it needs it.
But second, and this is the best part ... in most states you can sell the excess electricity that your solar panel array system generates back to the power company. That means that instead of you paying the power company for electricity, they will pay you for electricity!
What could be better than that?
Building your own solar array system is a lot easier than you mighty think.
There’s nothing to build when it comes to the batteries and the inverter. You just buy them ready to go.
All you have to actually build are the individual solar cell arrays ... and to do that you just need to find out the exact tools you need and learn the secrets of how to buy individual solar cells at a special low price, how to assemble them together into modules, how to assemble modules together into arrays, and how to put the arrays inside a box that will protect them from the environment.
Then put the arrays on your roof and wire everything together to have a complete solar power system.
