What makes a Solar-In-A-Box hub different from existing solar power inverters?
There are two types of solar inverters available today – grid-tied and non-grid-tied. Grid-tied inverters take the electricity generated by the solar panels and feed it back into the electrical grid. This is a very complicated process because the inverter must be exactly in sync with the electrical power being generated by the local utility. The grid-tied inverter must also meet very stringent regulatory requirements because it could potentially effect a large number of people. The existing grid-tied inverters are fantastically engineered to meet all these difficult requirements, but all this extra functionality makes them expensive to produce. Because they feed power backwards, they must be hard-wired into a dedicated breaker on your electrical system. This usually has to be done by a qualified electrician. Non-grid-tied inverters are not attached to the grid at all so they are much simpler and cheaper than grid-tied inverters. Because they are not connected to the grid, they typicall
