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What To Expect From Home Solar Kits
by Gordon Freeman Freelance Writer Many homes are beginning to go green. Some are do-it-yourself installations while others are professional projects. How it's installed or who did the work is normally less important to homeowners than how it functions and what kind of price point they're looking at. In order to address the needs and interests of as much of the market as possible, many manufacturers have begun putting together home solar kits of various sizes, capacities and designs. This makes available full kits with everything included to make installation easier and take a lot of the guess work out of the project for a do-it-yourselfer. By the same token, being able to order an all inclusive kit for each solar renovation makes home solar kits fairly attractive to professionals as well. When you start shopping around for a solar installation though, make sure you have a few things sorted out first.There are several different kinds of home solar kits on the market today. Depending on your home's energy needs, your location and your region's climate you may need either more or less power generating capacity in order to reach your goal. That goal should be a percentage of your home's average power usage, not a monthly dollar amount. This is because your power usage will fluctuate from month to month, either increasing or decreasing the total amount due on your bill. If you are looking only at the money side of things you'll be sorely disappointed more often than not. By paying attention to a monthly average for the year you'll see much more significant results. This is because of the manner in which solar power is generated. Since it is a passive collection system, rather than a production of energy, the amount of electricity generated by your solar panels will remain relatively consistent, year after year.
Besides just looking at how much power you're producing with your solar panels, there are also different ways to utilize that power. Some people prefer to remain on the municipal grid, acting effectively as a power generating station, while others prefer to do away with their reliance on public power altogether. In order to address both of these groups, home solar kits have been designed around their different needs. Instead of supplying cables and wires that allow your solar panels to feed their power back to the public power grid, an off grid kit includes a number of high capacity batteries as well as the materials necessary to feed that power back into the home. This allows for storage of surplus energy produced during the day and on demand access to that stored power at night.
Besides just addressing on-grid versus off-grid plans, the same companies that manufacture these kits also offer a number of other products, such as solar water heaters, flexible photovoltaic panels and a host of accessories that allow homeowners to get the most out of them. Regardless of why the interest in converting your home to rely on solar power has struck you, before you move forward with your plans, it's essential that you figure out just what you hope to get out of the final product. If you're just looking at cutting your energy usage in half then you'll want a much smaller capacity kit than someone who is hoping to fully convert their home to rely on solar power. The latter of these will also want to review their energy usage habits as well, and take steps towards curbing as many of their bad habits as possible. The same is true, to a lesser degree, for the former homeowner as well. In order to get the most out of your solar panels it's important to change your own behavior as well.
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