I found this work to be both comprehensive and easy to read and understand. I've been an electronics hobbyist for years, and I got interested in solar last year and built two panels from scratch. I spent far more time trying to research what I needed to know than I did in actually making it. I wish I'd read this book at the outset. It covers the entire subject in one reference that is best read, as the author suggests, from beginning to end. Having reached the end, one has a basic understanding of all the key concepts and how they fit together, the many different types of solar projects that can be undertaken, and at a nuts-and-bolts level needed for considering ones interests, deciding what is practical, planing a design, and getting the ball rolling.
While it presents a lot of detail, it is written with the novice in mind as well, starting out, for example, with a basic explanation of electrical concepts that will be helpful in developing an intuitive understanding for the subject rather than just applying rules without knowing why. Similarly, it not only covers options for cell types, panels, and batteries, but it provides substantial understanding of how these options work and how they interact. Even though I'd researched the area pretty extensively, I still learned quite a bit that fills in the gaps, and reading it straight through as suggested served to cement a clear, overall picture of this content area enabling me to review what I've managed to do up to this point in contrast to alternatives I might have taken, and various paths I can take going forward to use what I've made. The table of contents and Kindle features like "search" and "notes" make it easy to locate specific interest areas again to go back and re-read in connection with a specific project.
While it may be necessary to acquire a bit more information in some areas, for example if you decide to do your own cell tabbing frame construction as I did versus purchasing panels (which I would have done now in retrospect), you'll be able to do that much more efficiently and effectively having the knowledge imparted by this book. I would highly recommend it to anyone thinking about a solar project and, for that matter, anyone who just wants to learn more about this amazing advance in alternative energy that is beginning to flourish worldwide.
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