Thin Film Solar Modules

Video Transcript

"Now we have here a little different kind of panel. The latest manufactures have gone to what is called the thin film module where they are trying to use the smallest amount of the silicon. Which as it turns out is the most pure product and the most expensive. So with a smaller amount of silicon in the overall panel, one would hope the price would come down. This is a Kinoka Thin Film Panel. And it is designed to generate more like ninety volts DC and that is better off used in larger grid tie systems. Where as these smaller more lower voltage forty volt panels are better for battery charging systems which is what we are putting in today. And as we are seeing here this Kinoka panel is rated at sixty volts or sixty watts. Excuse me ninety volts DC at only one amp. So we have got a little different style of electricity being generated. It still comes out the same way. Through a junction box and through very small gage wires. It is just used by the charge controller in a different way. So this Kinoka panel which is rated now at ninety volts at one amp DC still puts out about sixty watts. And you combine these larger string to get up to your grid tie voltage. And that simply means that with a different style of inverter you are actually connected right to your household electricity and when the sun is out; you are spinning your electrical meter backwards and not paying for that electricity. It is coming in free from the sun."