Connecting solar panels yourself
Nowadays, the use of energy sources such as solar energy is a hot item, to use a pun. Solar panels contribute to the generation of alternative energy. Because solar panels are valuable all year round, regardless of the cloudy days in a year, solar panels are also very useful for households in the Netherlands.
If you want to connect solar panels yourself, you must take certain points into account.
Connect solar panels to a free machine
You connect solar panels to a free circuit breaker in the fuse box. If this is not available, you will have to install a new circuit breaker. It is important that the solar panels are connected to a free circuit breaker, partly because there may be no other installations between the inverter and the fuse box. In fact, you do not connect the solar panels to the circuit breaker but the inverter, and you connect the solar panels to the inverter.
PV distributor
The new (free!) machine, as described above, can be placed in the fuse box as well as in a designated PV distributor (PV is an abbreviation of Photo-Voltaic, where Photo stands for light and Voltaic stands for electricity), also called a solar energy distribution box.
You can connect solar panels to the machine in the PV distributor , but you can also install a socket (wall socket) to connect appliances such as a washing machine or dryer.
Read all about PV distributors in this article: ' What is a PV distributor? '.
Below you see an example of a PV distributor:
Overload protection
Connecting solar panels should be done safely. It is very important that you ensure that the devices in the home and/or business premises are protected against overload.
This protection is realized by a free circuit breaker in the PV distributor or fuse box. This way, cables and various devices are not overloaded and the inverter is separately connected to the circuit breaker in question.