Introduction to combiner boxes
A combiner box houses all the wiring from the solar panels and collectively outputs them into a single connection, allowing cables to be neat and tidy. The single output then goes to an inverter or charge controller, depending on the solar PV system design. Combiner boxes naturally positioned after a string or an array of solar panels.
Why are combiner boxes so important?
Within a combiner box, we’ll find a section to place and connect circuit breakers. By installing circuit breakers into combiner box allows a layer of safety. Circuit breakers is “an automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by excess current from an overload or short circuit. Its basic function is to interrupt current flow after a fault is detected” according to Wikipedia.
