Transcript How much energy does a solar panel produce is one of the most common questions we encounter from prospective customers? To understand that, you have to understand how a system is sized, or what the nameplate capacity means. If you take one module that is 300 watts and multiply

Transcript The solar panels on your roof collect the energy from the sun and convert that into DC voltage. That DC voltage then travels down into your inverter which converts into AC voltage. That AC voltage is going to be used by the loads in your home like a refrigerator

Transcript Here’s a little science lesson for you. A kilowatt is a unit of measurement, and it’s a thousand watts. A watt is the electrical Standard for energy transferred and is calculated from volts X amps. You’ll typically see watts, like a 60-watt lightbulb. If I had a 60-watt lightbulb

Solar Monitoring Explained There are a lot of different inverter manufacturers out there, and they all provide–or the majority provide–some sort of solar monitoring. Monitoring is the ability for you to see the performance of your system remotely. That’s either going to be on a website or on an app

Transcript Some of the main issues we run into when you have a monitoring site–it’s really just internet related. You may go log in and see that you don’t have a few days of data or sometimes even a month’s worth of data. If that happens, it’s typically that your

Solar Monitoring: Checking Your System’s Production There is a fair amount of systems which will have built-in solar monitoring. That monitoring is provided by the manufacturer and it’s run by the manufacturer. This monitoring is going to be something that you, as the end user, can log into and see

Transcript With your photovoltaic system, there aren’t a whole lot of moving parts, and there’s not a lot of things to fail. Typically the PV modules are going to be the most robust part of your system. There are modules out there that have been performing since the ’70s, so