September 20, 2026

Why Your Solar Panels Are Almost Always Bigger Than Your Inverter If you’ve looked at a solar quote and noticed the panels add up to more capacity than the inverter is rated for, that’s not a mistake. It’s standard practice, and there’s a name for it: the DC-to-AC ratio, or Inverter Loading Ratio (ILR). Here’s […]

Somewhere between the sales pitch and the signature, most solar buyers get handed a datasheet full of numbers they’ve never seen before — Voc, MPPT range, THD, weighted efficiency — and asked to trust that everything checks out. Most people don’t. They nod, sign, and hope the installer knew what they were doing. Sometimes the