Top 40 Costly Mistakes Solar Newbies Make Your Smart Guide to Solar Powered Home and Business
By Lacho Pop, MSE and Dimi Avram, MSE
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About this ebook
The book "Top 40 Costly Mistakes Solar Newbies Make" is the new completely revised, expanded and improved 2019 edition of the previous best selling book.
It includes new answers to many questions posed by our readers.
This new edition is a simple and practical guide that could save you a lot of money, headaches and time during the planning, buying, implementation, and operation phase of your solar power system designated for your residential or off-grid home, cabin, RV, camper, boat, prepping and survival activities or business.
Whether you have decided to buy a solar electricity system or assemble it yourself, you need a guide.
There are thousands of books, articles, leaflets, forums and many other resources available online telling you what to do.
Unfortunately, most of them are written by unqualified authors or do-it-yourselfers.
However, it is always easy first to find out what NOT To DO, and get that in a straightforward and comprehensible manner, in the form of practical tips and hints given by engineers with long-term experience in electrical and electronic engineering.
Do you know when you need a solar photovoltaic stand-alone system and when - a hybrid one?
No matter whether you are a potential buyer or an avid do-it-yourselfer, you are probably curious to find out the best site in your property for a solar array to install.
Or you are eager to know which solar panel type is the best for your case?
Let's say you're a solar system buyer.
Are you aware of solar panel guarantee?
The most important question, however, is - are you sure you can seed the 'good' solar offer, from the 'bad' ones?
Or you're a solar do-it-yourselfer and want to implement a solar system all by yourself.
Surely you need to know the most common mistakes in panel installation or system sizing.
What system voltage would be best for your system?
Do you know how to choose the right type of battery and charge controller also-known-as a solar battery maintainer?
....Or how to avoid some mistakes in connecting system components, which could ruin your solar project?
Here are the most common groups of mistakes commonly committed by people who have decided to go solar:
- General mistakes and misconceptions
- Mistakes during location assessment
- Mistakes with solar panels
- Mistakes in solar system sizing
- Mistakes in assembling the system components
- Mistakes in buying a solar system
- Mistakes in solar power system maintenance
Although solar power electric systems are everywhere around us and there are tons of resources available on this topic, you don't need to be an expert to assess what is right for your specific case.
This book can save you both money and trouble down the road. It is written frankly by experts for everyone who cannot get started.
Get started your solar journey today!
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Top 40 Costly Mistakes Solar Newbies Make Your Smart Guide to Solar Powered Home and Business - Lacho Pop, MSE
Introduction
Going solar is considered cool nowadays and, most importantly, can save you money, regardless of whether you live in a city or remote area, whether you are connected to a local power distribution grid or not.
Photovoltaics are becoming more and more attractive. With the demand for solar, there are thousands of solar-related products available on the market. Fortunately, solar power is not rocket science, so you don’t have to pay thousands to experts to figure out whether your house is suitable for installing a solar system or not. Also, you don’t need a solar power guru to reveal you what kind of a solar system would best meet your daily electricity needs.
With the enormous supply of all solar related products on the market – solar vendors, installers, books, leaflets, how-to-do guides, magazines, and online forums – there are lots of traps you can easily fall into. That is why it is vital to have some idea about the basics of photovoltaics, as well as to be armed with tips and hints how to assess whether to go solar or not and how to select the right solar vendor for your case.
This book helps you benefit from the most common mistakes, no matter whether you have decided to buy a solar power system or implement it yourself:
General mistakes and misconceptions
Mistakes upon location assessment
Mistakes committed with solar panels
Mistakes upon solar electric system sizing
Mistakes when assembling the system components
Mistakes when buying a photovoltaic system.
At the end of the book, you can find the essentials of the main types of solar power systems revealed.
Some of the mistakes mentioned here are actually not targeted towards beginners, since grasping or correcting those mistakes requires practice and knowledge that can be acquired in our other books:
-The Truth About Solar Panels: The Book That Solar Manufacturers, Vendors, Installers And DIY Scammers Don't Want You To Read [eBook and Paperback Edition] ISBN: 978-6197258011
-The New Simple And Practical Solar Component Guide [eBook and Paperback Edition Edition] ISBN-10: 6197258099, ISBN-13: 9786197258097
- The Ultimate Solar Power Design Guide: Less Theory More Practice [eBook and Paperback Edition] ISBN-13: 978-6197258042, ISBN-10: 6197258048
-Off Grid and Mobile Solar Power For Everyone: Your Smart Solar Guide [eBook and Paperback Edition] ISBN: 978-6197258103
On the other hand, we want to help you save money by getting an inexpensive yet effective system, built with reduced hardware costs, a system that is easy to maintain and less prone to failures.
We, therefore, take the risk of not being fully understood by keeping a somewhat technical language at times.
Above all, unlike some other authors, we want to be honest to you, our readers, and voice our concerns about some of the most frequently committed mistakes that can drain your pocket.
General mistakes and misconceptions
Mistake No. 1: Photovoltaics are a bed of roses
If you’re planning to buy a solar power system, please mind the following:
The power generated by a solar system is still more expensive than the electricity supplied from the utility grid unless you live in a remote area, where connecting to a utility grid would cost a fortune. Photovoltaic systems do make solar electricity more affordable than it was 30 years ago, but prices remain relatively high. Nevertheless, for the last few years, prices of solar photovoltaic panels have dropped 80% on average and are steadily going