Patent ID: 7605498

Claim:
A highly efficient method of series string solar energy power conversion comprising the steps of: establishing a plurality of solar energy sources, each providing a DC photovoltaic output; creating a plurality of high voltage highly varying DC photovoltaic outputs from said plurality of solar energy sources; individually establishing each of said high voltage, highly varying DC photovoltaic outputs as an individual DC photovoltaic input to a plurality of individual high efficiency switchmode photovoltaic DC-DC converters; individually high efficiency conversion duty cycle controlling operation of a plurality of switch elements within each of said individual high efficiency switchmode photovoltaic DC-DC converters; photovoltaic boundary condition controlling said plurality of switch elements within each of said individual high efficiency switchmode photovoltaic DC-DC converters; maximum photovoltaic power point controlling said plurality of switch elements within each of said individual high efficiency switchmode photovoltaic DC-DC converters slaved to said step of photovoltaic boundary condition controlling said plurality of switch elements; feeding each of said high voltage, highly varying DC photovoltaic outputs through a photovoltaic voltage increase modality of photovoltaic DC-DC power conversion; feeding each of said high voltage, highly varying DC photovoltaic outputs through a photovoltaic voltage decrease modality of photovoltaic DC-DC power conversion responsive to said photovoltaic voltage increase modality of photovoltaic DC-DC power conversion; slavedly individual panel dedicated maximum photovoltaic power point DC-DC converting each of said high voltage, highly varying DC photovoltaic outputs; boundary condition DC-DC converting said high voltage, highly varying DC photovoltaic outputs; individually substantially power isomorphically converting each said high voltage, highly varying DC photovoltaic outputs into a plurality of converted DC photovoltaic outputs while accomplishing said step of individual dedicated maximum photovoltaic power point converting said DC photovoltaic input from each of said plurality of solar panels; serially connecting said plurality of converted DC photovoltaic outputs to create a combined higher voltage converted DC photovoltaic output from said plurality of solar panels; establishing said combined higher voltage converted DC photovoltaic output as a converted DC photovoltaic input to a high voltage, high power photovoltaic DC-AC inverter; and inverting said converted DC photovoltaic input into a high power inverted AC photovoltaic output.