If we have a photovoltaic self-consumption installation, the days we live can help us maintain the solar panels and maintain their maximum efficiency.
Therefore, we offer you four tips for the care of your photovoltaic panels. You will extend their useful life with them, and they will always work like the first day.
- Keep Solar Panels Clean
The most important advice is the simplest; cleaning is the most fundamental aspect of solar panel maintenance. Dust, dirt, and other particles settle on its surface and block the incidence of the sun.
Therefore, if we want maximum efficiency in our installation, it must be clean. That does not mean that every weekend we have to be washing the solar panels, but it is better if we do it once every month or two months instead of every six.
- Visually Check The Solar Installation
Although a specialized technician must carry out the thorough maintenance of the panels, we can visually verify the solar installation from time to time.
Although we are not experts, certain anomalies can be seen and can even be easily corrected. In that verification, we must be attentive to things such as:
- Monitor The Performance Of Your Solar Installation
Within the maintenance of solar panels, there is also the verification that their performance is adequate. Externally it may seem all correct, but if we do not extract as much energy as possible or the flow suffers, something internally is not working well.
Although it is never advisable for us to try to correct these inefficiencies in these cases, it is very important to detect them to call the technician or enforce the warranty.
- Look Especially at The Inverter
The inverter is probably the most delicate and important part of the installation. Therefore, solar panels’ maintenance does not begin and end only in taking care of the plates and socket outlets (เต้ารับ เต้าเสียบ which is the term in Thai).
Clean the inverter, change the filter mats when they have told us, check the data … That the inverter works well is essential for everything else to do so.
