67King
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So everything you read everywhere says that an input has to have panels all getting equal sun, blah blah blah. Looking at putting panels on a covered boat slip/dock, and I can run 2 strings, but I'd be beyond the nominal voltage. Why would I have a problem putting a 3rd input with an E facing 6 panel series string wired in parallel to a W facing 6 panel series string? How would the inverter "know" that the 17 Amps it sees is from one string making 11 amps and the other making 6, as opposed to each one 8.5? I know I could run optimizers or microinverters, but I don't understand why I'd need to spend that money?
Maybe everything I am reading only applies to series connected strings, and either I just miss that disclaimer, or it isn't made. But I don't see how it would matter if the parallel strings have different current.
Maybe everything I am reading only applies to series connected strings, and either I just miss that disclaimer, or it isn't made. But I don't see how it would matter if the parallel strings have different current.