How to run a standard geyser directly from your solar panels Part 2 - How and why it works

"It will not work", he said...: a geyser is AC and the solar panels is DC ", he said... And so I phoned someone else, just to be met with another in the same "stuck in a box" syndrome. So I went ahead and did it myself... Four years ago, my mother-in-law came to live with us. She has breathing issues and is assisted via an oxygen unit. She struggles to breathe every time the power fails (it is called load-shedding in our country). To assist her with her problem, I installed some solar panels. However, I could only afford a basic system—not powerful enough to heat up our water geyser. So, I made a plan and converted my old existing geyser to run directly from the same panels as the house's system without installing a "magic box", different panels or replacing the element and it does not steal energy and run from the battery or inverter, but directly from the panels. This is that story. In this episode, we look at how and why it works