Connected Solar Panels

Just like a typical battery you may be familiar with solar panels have positive and negative terminals.

Connected solar panels.

Then they are connected to the charge controller or to the inverter of the solar system. This is important because solar energy is intermittent. For this example i am showing you connecting panels that are for a 12 volt system. Parallel series and a combination of parallel and series.

This means that the home will get electricity both from its solar panels and the electric grid. Home solar panels and the grid when a homeowner decides to add solar panels to their home in most cases they will choose to be grid connected. Stringing solar panels in series involves connecting each panel to the next in a line as illustrated in the left side of the diagram above. There are 3 ways to connect solar panels.

It stops working when the sun goes down. The first way i am going to talk about is parallel because this is probably the most common way that panels will be connected. The positive wires are connected to a positive connector within a combiner box and the negative wires are connected to the negative connector. Connecting solar panels in parallel wiring solar panels in parallel implies connecting positive terminals of each panel together and wiring the negative terminals of each panel together as well.