Expert Solar Panel Installers in Thetford

A Gel battery is a VRLA battery with a jellified electrolyte; the sulphuric acid is mixed with silica fume, which makes the resulting mass gel-like and immobile. Unlike a flooded wet-cell lead-acid battery, these batteries do not need to be kept upright.

The State of Charge (SOC) of a battery describes how full a battery is. The exact voltage to battery charge correlation is dependent on the temperature of the battery. Cold batteries will show a lower voltage when full than hot batteries. This is one of the reasons why quality regulators or high-powered charging systems use temperature sensors or probes.

A Modified Sine wave inverter (sometimes referred to as Quasi Sine Wave Inverters) produces a modified AC supply from a 12vdc or 24vdc supply. As the name suggests the supply does not match a mains supply. These inverters are more affordable and are sufficient for most applications, but will not run the following:

To calculate an approximation of what power the inverter may use, first find the power (wattage) rating of the appliance that will be used with the inverter and divide this wattage by eleven. So a small TV taking 100W (watts at 240vac) will be taking approximately 9 amps an hour off the battery.

A grid tied inverter converts solar panel charge into 240vac mains supply and is connected directly to a consumer unit. These inverters usually have larger panels connected in series to create strings. Depending on the size of the grid tied inverter these strings of solar panels are then connected in parallel to the Grid Tied inverter.