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Home Made Solar Panels – Residential Solar Power Panels Home Use

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There are certain points that a homeowner should keep in his mind before powering his home with solar energy.

There are a numerous vendors in the market supplying solar panels and other related equipments. Before dashing into the purchase of the solar power generators panels, as an home owner you need to inquire about all the aspects relating to the making of a residential home solar panel.

A few suggestions to make your decisions appropriate are given below, which need to be kept in mind before you decide to buy the materials to convert your home to a solar powered system.

Energy Consumption Wattage:

Various types of solar panels and solar arrays, which give out different amount wattage, are available in the market. How to get the right one depends up on the energy consumed by household [load]. So the first step towards purchase of a solar array is to determine the average power load requirement of a household.

The easiest way to arrive at this figure is to take the average of the power consumed per month by the household appliances for the past one or two years.

Efficiency Residential Solar Power Panels

The next step is to get the rated efficiency of the photovoltaic cells of different companies. The priority must be given to the photovoltaic cell with higher percentage of wattage output. Its always better to go with a product which offers longer guarantee periods. In the above case, it would be better to go with a product, which offers lifetime guarantee or at least a 30 year guarantee.

Since the amount that you are going to spent on solar power generators are considerably high; it is advisable to do internet research on the different products and manufacturers as well. You can turn up plenty of information from the solar companies.

Selection Residential Home Solar panel systems:

One important decision  has to be made by the homeowner is regarding the grid system to be used. Solar panel systems are of two types:

· Grid-Tied System:

Your residential solar panels are connected to your current power source. This system supplements the energy from your do it yourself solar panels with the power from your electric company.

· Battery backed Grid-Tied System:

The power from your residential solar panels are collected in a battery and used in urgent situations and the excess power is passed through your meter to electric company.

REMENBER to source out the correct package that gives you all this information as some do every little in the way of explaining the details, so be aware, Read  the SITE  carefully.

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