CyboEnergy, an auxiliary of CyboSoft, General Cybernation Group, has unveiled its plans to showcase a solar powered mini-inverter, known as CyboInverter, at Intersolar North America in San Francisco on July 12-14, 2011.
For the purpose of easy connectivity to four solar panels, the mini inverter incorporates 4 pairs of DC wires with normal MC-4 connectors and 4 input channels. More number of CyboInverters can be used to link the AC input and output cables and connections. The CyboInverter is designed to execute maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for each of the connected solar panel to overcome partial shading ills and achieve maximum power production. The mini inverter with scalable features enables easy installation of solar panels and the inverter.
Presently, the inverter market provides two types of inverters such as Micro inverters and centralized or string inverters. It is a fact that the performance of a weakest solar panel will affect and control the performance of an entire solar installation. The power production performance of a solar facility may perform poorly in power generation due to variations or partial eclipse of sun light, non-uniform installation of solar panels or due to shading due to trees, clouds or just due to collection of dust over the panels. More over the MPPT facility can be enforced only at system level and not for each panel thus requiring around 40% to 50% investment towards proper orientation of solar panels in a facility that utilizes centralized inverter facility.
The CyboInverter model currently available is designed to use with a majority of the 60-cell crystalline silicon solar panels available in the market. The inverter is designed for use in outdoor installations and work comfortably in natural cooling. The mini inverter can be reached by utilizing a power line connectivity reliably instead of unreliable wireless access.