A Step by Step Guide to Installing a Solar Electric System

This is a step by step guide, for the novice, on how a home owner can design and install his or her own solar electric system, and where to purchase all of the components necessary to complete it. The guide contains over 8000 words, 22 color photos, 4 wiring diagrams, 6 charts and 6 worksheets. This is from all the experience I had installing my system. The guide includes over 18 good web sites where you can learn more about, and purchase all the components that you will need to complete your system. The worksheets include, AC load sizing, DC load sizing, solar battery sizing, solar panel array sizing, solar charge control sizing, AC volts to DC volts inverter sizing, wire sizing chart, electrical load samples chart, maximum amperage for copper and aluminum wire chart and a sun hours per day chart.