So when we received our kits it was as barebones as the cheapest assemble it yourself furniture store that you’d buy from Staples or the worst Ikea in the world. I take it back it was far worse, and the biggest stumbling block was this solar power inverter. Being that we were all geeks at heart we all took to using our main source of power, Google.

1. Solar Power Inverter
What the Heck is a Solar Power Inverter Good for?
By
Daylin Herbersen
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2. Solar Power Inverter
So one day a bunch of us wanted to go hiking and bring along our new solar
power kits because there was no way we were going to go without our smartphones
between the five of us there were two iPhones a BlackBerry and a droid and HTC
Evo, we needed a way to power these things. Unfortunately even having a guy’s
weekend ended up being more than we bargained for since we decided to buy a few
solar power kits, what perplexed us the most was the solar power inverter that we got,
what was this thing for!
So when we received our kits it was as barebones as the cheapest assemble it
yourself furniture store that you’d buy from Staples or the worst Ikea in the world. I
take it back it was far worse, and the biggest stumbling block was this solar power
inverter. Being that we were all geeks at heart we all took to using our main source of
power, Google. We put our Google hats on and went to town with the research. It
turns out in the end it was just labeled incorrectly, it really was not a solar power
inverter but rather an AC to DC converter, just that the terms got all mashed up
together since these solar power kits are so haphazardly put together.
What we found out was that a solar panel get’s charged by the sun’s rays and
produces electricity in a very layman kind of way. This electricity goes to what is
basically a car battery and that energy charges the battery and get’s stored. Now the
car battery is a DC battery and while it holds power, that power is useless unless we
can turn that DC power into what all our appliances and cell phone chargers use, AC
power. This is where the solar power inverter comes in, it is actually just a DC to AC
power inverter and let’s us use AC power.
So in the end after hours of using Google we were able to demystify this solar
power inverter. However if you really want a great guide to how solar panels are made
we were finally able to find it after hours of Google at
http://www.DiyHomeMAdeSolarPanels.info
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3. Solar Power Inverter
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4. Solar Power Inverter
Recommended Solar Power Kit Resources:
 Solar Knowledge Series
 Green DIY
 DIY Solar Water Heater
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