How To Wire Two Solar Panels Together

This is the first part of our video on how to connect your panels in series and parallel.

How to wire two solar panels together.

When solar panels are wired in series the voltage of the panels adds together but the amperage remains the same. Wiring solar panels in a parallel circuit. If we have two solar panels with same voltage and power the connection will be very simple. We put solar panels together to increase the solar generated power.

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. Both have their own purpose and applications and both have different outcomes when hooking up solar panels of different wattage together. The video will go over the basic installation and can apply directl. If you had 4 solar panels in parallel and each was rated at 12 volts and 5 amps the entire array would be 12 volts at 20 amps.

The following wiring diagram shows that the two 12v 10a 120w solar panels connected in parallel will charge the two 12v 100ah parallel connected batteries as well as power up the ac load through batteries and inverter during the day in normal sunshine. So if you connect two solar panels with a rated voltage of 40 volts and a rated amperage of 5 amps in series the voltage of the series would be 80 volts while the amperage would remain at 5 amps. When you intend to wire two panels produced by different vendors the vendors are not the problem. Firstly lets take a look at connecting solar panels in series.

During shading night when there is no generating power from solar panels the battery stored energy will be used as a backup power and it. There are two ways to wire up solar panels. 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.