MCS Approved Solar PV Kits

Complete solar PV Kits - everything in one box to install at solar photovoltaic system

Solar power systems that are connected to the electricity grid, otherwise known as grid connected, grid tied, or on-grid photovoltaic systems enable you to generate electricity for your home or place of work and feed any excess energy produced back into the electricity grid system. This is now know as the feed-in-tariff.

Grid connected systems are designed to replace all or a portion of the building’s total electricity needs. The energy generated by such a system is used first within the home, and surplus energy can then be sold back to the grid. The surplus energy “spins the electric meter backwards” when the energy produced by the solar PV system is greater than that being consumed by the home. In actual fact the utility company will normally install an export meters which measure the amount of electricity generated by the solar PV system.

Our grid tie solar power kits include solar modules from leading manufacturers such as Kyocera, Schott, Sanyo, Sharp et al. Each of our systems is supplied complete and solar modules, solar mounting frames, wiring, combiner box, inverter, DC and AC isolating switches and circuit breakers, if required. 

We're happy to help you compare the quality, convenience and pricing on all of our kits.

We have a wide range of kits to suit your purposes.  Typical kit sizes are shown below.

We also offer kits based around, Sanyo, Sharp, Schott, BP, Suntech, Yingli and many other solar panel manufacturers. Let us do the work for you.  All kits are available wholesale.  Call us for trade pricing.

Advantages of Grid Connected Systems

There are two types of grid connect systems, those without battery backup and those with battery backup.

Grid connected systems without a battery consist of two main components, a solar PV array and a grid-connect inverter. If the utility grid fails then the solar PV array has no way of providing power as the inverter will automatically disconnect itself from the utility grid.

Grid-tied systems with a battery backup also have an array and a grid-tied inverter, but include the addition of a battery bank and charge controller. Systems with a battery bank can provide power in the event of the electricity (utility) grid failure.

There are many advantages of using a grid connected system

• a) Simple to install;
• b) High efficiency;
• c) reliable;
• d) flexible;

A typical household installation has a number of essential components that comprise the solar photovoltaic system.

• 1. Solar panels - one or more modules wired together to generate a specific voltage and current
• 2. Combiner (junction) Box - allows termination of the solar panels
• 3. Grid tie inverter -  device that converts DC (direct current) to AC (alternating current).
• 4. import / export meter - records energy generated and consumed
• 5. Grid connect point - distribution board connection
• 6. Electrical load - appliances that are powered by alternating current.
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In a typical grid-tied solar system, the DC electricity produced by the solar array is fed by cables into a combiner (junction) box where the solar panels are terminated and connected together. A cable from the combiner box feeds the DC electricity into a grid-tied inverter. The inverter converts the DC electricity into AC electricity which is used by the appliances or fed into the grid. The output from the inverter is fed via a fuse directly into the main distribution (fuse board).