ArticlesSolar
Solar
Charging a bank from panels — controller choice, array and inverter sizing, and what off-grid actually demands of the battery.
All 3 articles
Everything on one page · guides firstGuides
1
Articles
2Next door
Battery storage · 67 articlesTesting, grading, fusing and storing cells is covered in depth in Battery storage. Most solar questions end up there.
Browse Battery storageMonthly-ish. New tools, new cells in the database, guides worth reading.
About this topic
Solar charging and off-grid systems
Solar is where a battery bank stops being a project and starts being infrastructure. These articles cover the parts that sit between the panels and the cells: charge controllers, array sizing, inverters, and the wiring that connects them.
Sizing is the question that decides everything else. A bank too small gets cycled hard and dies early; too large and most of the money never does any work.
The pack itself — cell choice, testing, fusing and the BMS — is covered in Battery storage.