Same sun. Four very different paths.
Drag the sun across the sky. Watch how much of its power survives the trip to your outlets — and how each system decides what to do with it.
Grid‑tied solar
Panels feed an inverter, which syncs to the grid. The grid absorbs whatever the sun sends — loads run at fixed rates whether the sun is blazing or barely out.
Off-grid solar
Panels charge a battery bank through a charge controller, then an inverter turns stored DC into usable AC. No grid at all — if the battery runs dry, the loads go dark.
Hybrid solar
A hybrid inverter sits at the center — splitting power between a battery bank and a distribution box that ties to both the grid and your loads. Every path still runs through at least one full conversion.
DSI — power that thinks
DSI delivers stable AC straight from the panel to the load — no battery, no grid interconnection. Smart loads talk back over a live wireless link, so consumption adjusts to what the sun is actually doing. Solar power only ever goes to loads — never out to the grid.