Solar Panels
Posted on January 1, 2010
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The thought of buying solar panels for your home or business can be somewhat daunting. It’s a big initial expense, but purchasing the solar power generator that can produce inexpensive electricity is a step toward savings money year after year for decades to come.
There are several considerations and types depending on your needs such as portable, residential, and commercial. Portable panels are of course much less expensive and manageable because of their small size that generate low voltages, which means limited power, eg. hand-held, small, thin-film panels.rollable solar chargers, and foldable photovoltaic panels. Commercial solar panels are powerful enough to power your home or business. Because they’re much larger than portable solar panels, residential and commercial solar panels require inverters, which in turn converts direct current to alternating current.
Choosing a reliable brand is the major consideration. Like all products you purchase, knowing the leading solar panel brands will, in most cases, give you the satisfaction that you’ll get good service, timely repairs and maintenance if and when you need it. Here is a list of leading solar panels brand:
- BP Solar
- Evergreen Solar,
- General Electric
- AEE Solar
- Kaneka
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Kyocera
- Sanyo
- SunWize
- Suntech
- Sharp
- Uni-Solar
- Mercury Solar Systems
Based on your budget, these companies will determine the size of your solar power system, your average power consumption figures, the number of available sun hours at your location, and the specifications for your solar panels and any other related components such as inverters, batteries and mounts. They may recommend that install as many solar generators as is required to supply your electricity needs or advice you on installing the solar panels in stages.
Lastly, whatever brand or company you choose to go with, ask about their warranty periods. You’ll want that to be much longer than the estimated payback period as this is not standardized across manufacturers.
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