Apologies for my ignorance, i don't have much of a background in electrical engineering, i just like to tinker with stuff. Surely, the cheapest and simplest way to achieve what i'm looking for is hooking up some solar panels to a roughly impedance matched immersion heating element so it produced...
as the title says, i'm trying to heat water for domestic use via PV. From my research so far, the most popular suggestion seems to be solar thermal. That isn't the right option for me.
Pros of solar thermal:
smaller surface area
Pros of solar PV:
cheaper (depending on the solution)
no/fewer...