What types of inverters are there?
There are stand alone inverters and grid interactive inverters. Among the stand alone inverters, there are square wave inverters, modified square wave inverters and pure sine wave inverters. What can be run on inverters? Inverters ran typical AC appliances like blenders, hair dryers, microwave ovens and computers. Heavy duty inverters can run motors like in washing machines. What is a blocking diode, and what does it do? A blocking diode is like a check valve for the solar system. It allows current to go from the panels to the batteries, but prevents current drain from the battery into the solar panels at night. What would I lose if I didn’t have a blocking diode? The losses through a solar panel at night without a blocking diode amount to about .03 amps per solar panel in parallel. So if you have a 4 panel system and the night is 10 hours long, you would loose 1.2 amp hours. If you generate about 12 amps for 6 hours, this is less than 2%. Are there ways other than blocking diodes to p
