Inverters & Components
8 articles in this category.
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Inverter Clipping: When Lost Solar Power Is Actually Fine
Inverter clipping explains the flat top on a solar production curve. What causes it, how much energy it really costs, and why systems are designed to clip.
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Inverter Sizing and the DC-to-AC Ratio Sweet Spot
Why solar arrays are sized larger than their inverter, what the DC to AC ratio means, and the reasonable range for oversizing an array without wasting power.
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MPPT: How Inverters Squeeze Every Watt From Your Panels
What is MPPT solar tech? Maximum power point tracking explained in plain terms — how it works, why MPPT channel count matters for your roof, and what it costs.
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Why Grid-Tied Solar Shuts Off in a Blackout: Anti-Islanding 101
Why does solar shut off during a power outage? It's not a fault, it's anti-islanding, a safety feature. Here's what it does and the hardware that changes it.
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Hybrid Inverters: One Box for Solar and Storage
What a hybrid solar inverter does, how a battery-ready inverter differs from a standard one, and whether paying for hybrid up front is worth it before you add storage.
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Power Optimizers: The Middle Path Between String and Micro
How solar power optimizers work, the problems DC optimizers actually solve, and when they make more sense than plain string inverters or microinverters.
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String Inverters vs Microinverters: The Real Trade-Offs
String inverter vs microinverter, without the sales spin: how each handles shade, failures, monitoring, and cost — and which architecture fits which roof.
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The Solar Inverter, Explained: Your System's Hardest-Working Box
What does a solar inverter do? How it converts DC to AC, the string vs microinverter choice, MPPT, sizing ratios, and why inverters fail first.
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