Solar Panel Maintenance Checklist for Texas Homeowners
So you've gone solar in Texas. Smart move! You save money on electricity bills, and you are also doing something positive for the planet. What many people are not aware of here, though, is that solar panels do require some care in order to work at their optimum. And Texas? Well, our weather deals with all it has with these systems. Summer is brutal, dust storms, the hail every now and then... all this, it adds up. But don't worry. Panel care is not that hard. This is a solar panel maintenance checklist that is divided into all that you must know to ensure your system is running at high performance. How Home Solar Panels Work Let's talk about the basics for a second. Your solar panels have these things called photovoltaic cells. They generate electricity when they are hit by the sun. Pretty cool, right? That force is sent to your inverter, which essentially converts that into the type of DC power that is used by a battery, but then turns it into the type of AC power...