"Why You Shouldn’t Choose an Inverter Before You Know Your Panel Setup

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You don‘t build Solar around an inverter. First thing is always how many space with how many panels can you run and how many you want to run. Next step is hunting the panels with cheap price and decide if you want to run monofazial or bifazial (Meadow / free area lower cost many panels, cheap wide area VS house / building most efficiency a bit more cost. And after this you check which inverter is needed for your situation. If you start with the inverter and don‘t know how many panel you wanna build around it - you will most time end up with headache. Your inverter is always picked by the solar panels you have installed (and direction).
For example if you want to run between 1-4 Panels I suggest a simple Growatt 800 / 1000 M-X, without making it to complicated. You can upgrade this to more Panels with a simple bat like Noah 2000 (for example). I still think this is better for the simple home usecase. If you want to run 10+ i suggest to first calculate how many panels you really wanna setup. In the Mid Range + 10 Panels i only suggest Hybrid inverters especially for home usecase. In terms of insurance / solar „experiments“ if you are not 100% familiar with it go with the simple stuff you can‘t do something wrong especially in home usecase.
A wrong fuse or a wrong sized cable is still enough for a smokey day.
The reason why there are so many restrictions in so many countries is not entirely unfounded.

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