How To Connect Solar Cells To Make A Solar Panel

Double or triple check how the terminals of each solar cell or panel have been connected.

How to connect solar cells to make a solar panel.

It is a piece of 3 8 x 6 black pipe. When using 1 solar cells i use tab wires that are 1 3 4 long. As clearly visible in the picture it will be enough to wire the positive pole of one panel to the positive pole of the other one and then wire the negative pole of one panel to the negative pole of the other one. There are 3 ways to connect solar panels.

When you wrap the wire around the 3 8 pipe it comes out close enough to what i need 1 2 pipe o d. If we have two solar panels with same voltage and power the connection will be very simple. The first way i am going to talk about is parallel because this is probably the most common way that panels will be connected. The outside diameter of a 3 8 pipe is a little more than 1 2.

For this example i am showing you connecting panels that are for a 12 volt system. Parallel series and a combination of parallel and series. In the solar industry. To have a functional solar pv system you need to wire the panels together to create an electrical circuit through which current will flow and you also need to wire the panels to the inverter that will convert the dc power produced by the panels to ac power that can be used in your home and sent to the grid.

Parallel connection of two identical solar panels.