Buying a solar system can be a confusing and painful task that often leads to a bad decision in purchasing an underrated system that doesn't support your needs and can leave may owners asking the age old question of why did I bother.
There are many things you need to consider before you purchase or design your system.
The first being, what is my power usage in my home? Do I use the TV power sucking devices a lot...
if so you will need a larger system.
Hence a larger inverter to cope with this.
The second question you need to ask yourself is, do I build it myself or do I invest in knowledge of how to build this system, as I'm guessing we're not all electrician's.
In saying that you may also need a licensed electrician to connect this up for you.
Also allow for this in the cost when adding up your sums.
Try asking friends, you never know how many of them may have or are thinking of installing themselves and could have great contacts for electricians.
The more you ask the more you find there are others trying.
The third part of the planing, is to decide if you want an On the grid or Off grid system On grid feed power back to the electric company Off the grid systems are totally dependent and require no power company to support it On grid feed power back to the electric company Off the grid systems are totally dependent and require no power company to support it.