Design A Grid Tied Solar Photovoltaic System

A practical DIYers guide to understand and design your first solar photovoltaic system.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.2

- 2019 How to design a grid tied solar photovoltaic system
- Working through designing a grid tied solar PV system
- Electrical Wiring

What you'll learn

2019 How to design a grid tied solar photovoltaic system

Working through designing a grid tied solar PV system

Electrical Wiring

* Requirements

* Basic electrical knowledge is a plus
* Electrical Wiring

Description

A practical DIYers guide to understand and design your first solar photovoltaic system.

Wether you want to start a career in the solar industry, have a system installed, or install your own system yourself, this course is a great resource.

We go through the process that professionals use to design solar PV systems and the explain the fundamentals along the way in order to give you a working understanding of the mechanics of solar PV.

Solar Energy Simplified has been professionally installing solar photovoltaic systems for over 10 years.

We are now focused on having the biggest positive impact possible by teaching as many people as possible how to install their own solar energy systems.

We have spent a lot of time simplifying the process in order to provide you with a unique, straight forward way to learn practical solar energy knowledge.

Who this course is for:

Everyone

Course content

4 sections • 22 lectures

Electrical Design & Plans 7 lectures

Intro to electrical design Preview 00:05

Download the electrical design PDF and fill it out throughout this section. You will need that Info for the final design.

Conduit selection and fill Preview 03:29

Overcurrent protection and disconnects Preview 01:52

Equipment grounding Preview 01:41

For the final layout, it would be easier to get the info from the PDF that I included, it will walk you through using the info that you have collected along the way to put it all together into a final design for your system.

I also included an example of what plans can look like.