Hi all,
I stumbled across the forum a couple of weeks back and have been researching about what I need but I'm at a lost and wondered if anyone could provide some advice / wisdom? Looking at setting up a basic grid tie setup for POC on my garages just hopefully reduce some of the load from the grid - Currently on tick over the house consume anyway from 250 - 450w.
I've got two of these panels - Viridian pv16-300 with the following spec:
Rated Power: 300 W
VMPP: 32.51 V
IMPP: 9.23 A
Isc: 9.6 A
Voc: 40.1 V
Connector Type: MC4
Efficiency: 18.4 %
I got given two of these panels brand new which is great but don't know what Grid Tie inverter to link them with and which will work? - I found this one online - WVC-600 (https://www.craigsolar.co.uk/shop/f72k623g0t500tvoasqolv2tqvf23b) Or I've been offered a Growatt 1000-S 1KW inverter for £50.
The company in the UK (CraigSolar) which is supplying the WVC inverter has said I can use it with one or two solars panels upto 600W which the panels I've got would fall into but with the Growatt one - It states a startup voltage of 80V which that's the bit I don't really understand - How do the solar panels make that startup voltage and do I need more than two panels for the growatt one to work?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
I stumbled across the forum a couple of weeks back and have been researching about what I need but I'm at a lost and wondered if anyone could provide some advice / wisdom? Looking at setting up a basic grid tie setup for POC on my garages just hopefully reduce some of the load from the grid - Currently on tick over the house consume anyway from 250 - 450w.
I've got two of these panels - Viridian pv16-300 with the following spec:
Rated Power: 300 W
VMPP: 32.51 V
IMPP: 9.23 A
Isc: 9.6 A
Voc: 40.1 V
Connector Type: MC4
Efficiency: 18.4 %
I got given two of these panels brand new which is great but don't know what Grid Tie inverter to link them with and which will work? - I found this one online - WVC-600 (https://www.craigsolar.co.uk/shop/f72k623g0t500tvoasqolv2tqvf23b) Or I've been offered a Growatt 1000-S 1KW inverter for £50.
The company in the UK (CraigSolar) which is supplying the WVC inverter has said I can use it with one or two solars panels upto 600W which the panels I've got would fall into but with the Growatt one - It states a startup voltage of 80V which that's the bit I don't really understand - How do the solar panels make that startup voltage and do I need more than two panels for the growatt one to work?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt