GuidesSolar power for the house: what a home actually needs
A solar home starts with the loads, not the panels. How much inverter and how much battery, and how to work it out before you pay.
Deep, decision-grade guides for choosing solar gear.
Buying solar equipment is a five-figure decision: the wrong inverter or panel can cost you years of returns. These guides walk through the trade-offs that actually matter — temperature coefficients in the Gulf heat, battery chemistry vs. cycle life, hybrid vs. string inverter topologies, sizing rules of thumb that survive contact with a 70 °C rooftop. Every guide is written for installers and serious homeowners, with worked examples in AED, real model comparisons, and the trade-offs vendors won't put in their datasheets. Browse the full set below or jump to a specific question.
GuidesA solar home starts with the loads, not the panels. How much inverter and how much battery, and how to work it out before you pay.
GuidesA solar fridge is usually not a special fridge — it is an ordinary one on a correctly sized inverter and battery. Inverter-compressor fridges make it easier.
GuidesRun a submersible or surface pump from a Deye hybrid inverter instead of a separate pump controller — provided you size on starting current, not the nameplate.
GuidesA 12 V lithium battery, a LiPo pack, an 18650 cell and a car battery are not the same thing. What separates them, and which belongs in a solar system.
GuidesEvery capacity the Deye battery records state: 20, 39, 40, 100, 120, 200, 208, 235, 280 and 314 Ah, 1.28 to 4340 kWh — and how your own figure gets built.
GuidesWe list 134 solar inverters, each with a published spec record, from 300 W to 136 kW. Five rows separate them: phase, battery, efficiency, derating and noise.