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So you want to learn about solar. Good, this is the place to start. How does a solar system work? It's a battery running a box called an Inverter that makes power you use every day in your house. That power is called AC power and that's what's available in each one of your wall sockets. When you plug a TV or cell phone charger into the wall socket you're plugging into AC power coming from the grid which is your electric company. In a solar system, a box called an Inverter stands in for the power company and makes the AC power from the batteries and solar panels it's hooked up to. AC stands for "Alternating Current" and in America the wall outlet voltage is 120 volts.
So as you can see, the solar system is really a battery powered system running an Inverter. The solar panels are there mainly to charge the batteries.

Next you have another box called a "Charge Controller" that goes between your solar panels and the batteries. The Charge controller is there to make sure you don't over-charge your batteries. Without the charge controller, the solar panels would over-charge your batteries and ruin them or worse, maybe even cause a fire in rare situations.

Once you get the basic idea of how the system works it will be easier to make decisions about how to order or build one.

This is the basic system as explained in the Beginners Basic book. The book contains more information you need to know.

If you decide you need more help, use the contact page and I will do my best to get back with you as soon as I can.

Don't be one of those people who says, "Duh, I shoulda paid more attention to that"..

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