{"id":2169,"date":"2013-01-12T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T04:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2018-06-28T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:53:05","slug":"how-to-choose-a-good-solar-inverter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/how-to-choose-a-good-solar-inverter\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Choose A Good Solar Inverter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you choose a good solar inverter? It&#8217;s a really important question. If you choose a bad inverter, it may turn out to be noisy, inefficient and unreliable. If you have a look at the<a title=\"Solar Inverter Reviews\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/reviews\"> inverter reviews<\/a> that are coming in to SQ, some inverters appear to have an awful failure rate. For example at the time of writing the <a title=\"KLNE Inverter Reviews\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/beijing-kinglong-new-energy-technology-review.html\">Beijing Kinglong New Energy (KLNE) inverter reviews<\/a> report 7 failures from 13 reviews! Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>Here is my attempt to answer this important question. And I&#8217;ve provided a transcript of my rantings below the video.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"How To Choose A Good Solar Inverter\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3KiqhMQkoxE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Transcription:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi. I&#8217;m Finn Peacock. How to choose a good solar inverter? That is an absolutely critical question because I would argue that the solar inverter is the most critical component in your solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, one, all the power goes through it. So if the solar inverter goes down, then the solar system goes down. Another thing, because all the power goes through it, the efficiency f the solar inverter will directly affect the efficiency of the solar system as a whole. And thirdly, the solar inverter is the most likely component fail early in the solar system, even a good one. So it&#8217;s absolutely critical that you don&#8217;t skimp on these components and if you can afford to upgrade any components in the system before you buy then upgrade the inverter to a quality one. I really think it would be worth it over the next 20 years that you own the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the two most critical factors when choosing a solar inverter are: Number 1, reliability and then number two, efficiency. I would even go so far as to say it\u2019s worth taking a small hit on the efficiency if you have to to get a highly reliable inverter. Now of course you can get super efficient, super reliable inverters.\u00a0 Some of the good SMA&#8217;s for a start, but you would pay more for those. So if you have to\u2026 If you are on a budget and need to make a trade off, take a small efficiency hit before you take a reliability hit on the inverter. You don&#8217;t want your inverter to fail, trust me.<\/p>\n<p>Now the other big debate in the solar industry is Chinese inverters versus European inverters and you definitely get two camps here.\u00a0 You get the guys who say, &#8220;Oh Chinese inverters are crap.&#8221;And then you get the guys that say, &#8220;No, Chinese inverters are actually better than the European ones.&#8221; Well, I personally think that the European inverters are a little bit better than the Chinese inverters. Just. China will probably catch up with Europe soon because the Chinese they learn fast. Five years ago, Chinese inverters were pretty crap. I wouldn&#8217;t get one. Today, 2012, I would be happy with a good Chinese inverter. Although if I would be spending my money, I would pay a little bit more and go a European. Just because they&#8217;ve been making them for longer you know, they have been in the business 25 to 30 years. They have ironed out most of the reliable issues in the modern inverter, those European guys have absolutely nailed it. So it\u2019s a lower risk. I think it\u2019s a slightly better quality inverter if you go for European one, but some Chinese ones are good.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about some brands, good European brands: there&#8217;s the big daddy of the inverters that\u2019s SMA, giant German company, biggest manufacturer in the world. You can\u2019t go wrong with the SMA inverter, generally. But they are the most expensive. Horses for courses right? Slightly cheaper and also out of Europe is, Power One Aurora, those guys are Italian and they make great inverters. The other European brand is, Xantrex. I think all of those inverters are now made in the Far East but they\u2019ve got great quality control. And I&#8217;ve never seen a bad Xantrex.<\/p>\n<p>Good Chinese brands: you\u2019ve got three that stand out; pretty low risk you&#8217;ve got Samil Power, you&#8217;ve got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/growatt-review.html\">Growatt<\/a> (who have had a few reliability issues maybe 3 years ago but they seem to have fixed them.) And you&#8217;ve got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/zeversolar-review.html\">Zeversolar<\/a> making some really good inverters these days. There&#8217;s probably some of the good Chinese brands that I&#8217;m not across and if that\u2019s the case, give us a \u201cshout\u201d let me know and I&#8217;ll add it them to the list. But you know, at the end of the day why go with the brand that&#8217;s unheard of and you can&#8217;t get third party information on it. There are plenty of good inverters just go with the good brand. It&#8217;s worth it trust me. Even if you have got to pay an extra couple of hundred dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing you should know is this: get a 10 year warranty on your inverter, that&#8217;s critical. The standard warranty is 5 years. You can usually get a 10 year warranty if you push for it or you pay an extra hundred dollars or so.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth it. Like I&#8217;ve said, if anything will fail in your solar system, if it\u2019s a well installed solar system, it will be the inverter. It is just the nature of the beast.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, let&#8217;s talk about inverter sizing. <strong>Don&#8217;t get an oversized inverter.\u00a0<\/strong> It&#8217;s a waste of time and a waste of money. Unless, you&#8217;re going to expand your solar system in the next 12 months, you are probably just gonna spend more money than you have to. There are companies out there selling 5 kilowatt inverters with 1.5 kilowatts of solar panels. They say, &#8220;Oh you can upgrade your system in the future&#8221;. Yeah, but if you upgrade your system in 3 years, the chances of you still being able to buy the same solar panel are almost none. Why? Because the technology is changing so fast. I&#8217;m getting calls from people who bought their system 2 years ago, big inverter, back then 165 watt solar panels were the go. Try and find a 165 watt solar panel in 2012. Good luck, If you do find them, you would pay a fortune for them. So they are really struggling to upgrade the solar system. It\u2019s working out cheaper to just get a new solar system. <strong>So don&#8217;t get an oversized inverter, it\u2019s just a marketing ploy.<\/strong> Don&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>It is actually okay to get a smaller inverter than your panel array and not a lot of people know this. You can, it\u2019s in the standards, it\u2019s in the guidelines. You can oversize your panel array to your inverter by up to 15% and that&#8217;s because you get inherent losses in the solar panels which means that you&#8217;re unlikely to ever get more than 80% of the rated power out of your solar panel array. So basically what I&#8217;m saying is, for example, if you&#8217;ve got 2 kilowatts of panels and the installer specifies a 1.8 kilowatt inverter. Don&#8217;t stress; he&#8217;s not ripping you off, it\u2019s just kinda good, efficient design. The inverter in that case is 10% smaller than the panel array which is well within the safety margin of 15%. And it\u2019s just a good economical way to size your system and you are not gonna be losing out.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s everything I think you need to know about inverters to make an informed decision on your solar system. The inverter is absolutely critical. Please don&#8217;t skimp on the quality. If you can afford a few extra hundred dollars, upgrade the inverter, upgrade the inverter warranty. Many Chinese inverters are fine. If you can afford it, European inverters there&#8217;s a probably a little lower risk. Efficiency is very important and reliability is more important. So good luck buying your solar system, don&#8217;t skimp on the quality of the inverter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you choose a good solar inverter? It&#8217;s a really important question. If you choose a bad inverter, it may turn out to be noisy, inefficient and unreliable. 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