Client type and design mode
Client type
You can choose residential, commercial or industrial. This choice determines which consumption profiles are offered in step 3:
| Client | Available profiles |
|---|---|
| Residential | Primary residence, home with heat pump, holiday home |
| Commercial | Office, shop, restaurant |
| Industrial | Industrial with 1, 2 or 3 shifts |
See Typical profiles.
Design mode
It is chosen at the top of step 4 · Design.
Automatic
The engine decides for you which planes to use, how many modules, how to group them into strings, how many inverters to use and, if there is a battery, how many units. It checks the electrical limits of the inverter for each candidate. You can choose the criterion:
- Optimal: maximum NPV.
- Conservative: shortest payback.
- Ambitious: maximum production.
Details in Automatic topology.
Manual
You define, for each MPPT input, the plane, the modules in series and the strings in parallel. The engine validates voltages and currents against the inverter limits and warns you about anything that does not comply. Details in Manual topology.
Which one to choose?
Start in automatic to get a reference in seconds; switch to manual when you want to fine-tune a specific configuration you already have in mind (for example, a client who requires a certain inverter and number of modules).