List of products by brand SMA

SMA (SMA AG) is a German inverter company founded more than 40 years ago in the town of Niestetal, with a long history in the design and manufacture of electronic components. SMA has more than 3,000 workers and annual turnover of more than 750 million euros (2018).

The company has focused the last decades on the design of both large-scale solar inverters (central inverters for large plants) and small grid-connected inverters (the well-known Sunny Boy).

SMA is one of the world market leaders in the manufacture and sale of inverters. It has been in the top 10 of global manufacturers every year since statistics are made. Although it is true that in recent years it has lost its global hegemony against the Chinese giants Huawei and Sungrow, SMA is still today a benchmark brand in the solar energy sector, due to its high quality.

As for central (large-scale) inverters, SMA's flagship is the Sunny Central. The Sunny centrals are high-power inverters (from kW to the most powerful of almost 3MW) considered a safe and reliable bet from the beginning of the construction of large solar plants. Thousands of 100 kW Sunny Central inverters continue to operate in Spain after their massive installation in 2007 and 2008, in the first Spanish photovoltaic boom, after more than 12 years of operation.

Already in smaller sizes, SMA has developed the residential and commercial line of small power (1.5 kW to 6 kW-single-phase) with its well-known Sunny Boy. Although it brought to market Sunny Boy microinverters of lower power (240 and 250W) these had little commercial success and ended up being removed from the catalog. The Sunny boy, in the current range, is a “transformerless” technology inverter, very small in size and weight (6kg), robust, very reliable with a remarkable performance compared to most of its competitors. SMA offers high-end products always with their corresponding price.

The initial manufacturer warranty is 10 years, but you can get extensions of warranties of 5 or 10 additional years, and up to 25 years of warranty. At the residential user level, SMA has developed technology in its solar inverters that allows it to approach its products in a more friendly way. The different mobile applications that connect their inverters with the residential user allow SMA solutions to be intuitive and easy to understand solar solutions. This application allows, in addition to monitoring the production of your solar inverter in real time, managing the guarantee of your product and managing the after-sales service directly from your mobile phone. The SMA SunnyBoy are without a doubt a safe bet for your solar installation at home.

For larger sizes SMA has developed the Sunny Tripower range for three-phase connections. Small and medium power SMA Tripower (3kW up to 25kW) are a very good choice for higher power residential installations and medium solar plants for industrial use. The SMA tripower range includes, in addition to monitoring and services (SMA Smart), the active management of solar panel shading, achieving higher installation efficiencies. The flexible MPPT’s management system allows your solar installation to always work at the most optimal point of solar generation.

Both the SMA inverters of the Sunny Boy or Sunny Tripower range are very easy to install with Plug & Play connections and detailed online material so that installing a solar inverter is a simple and grateful task. It is interesting to note that the solar inverters of these ranges have automatic software updates (as long as the inverter is connected to the internet) and it is expandable with a storage system (solar batteries) and energy management systems.

SMA also has inverters for off-grid or hybrid systems. Historically SMA has been a pioneer in these two types of solar installations but especially in large-scale hybrids (those that manage various energy sources such as diesel / solar / solar batteries). For these off-grid and / or hybrid systems SMA has its Sunny Island. Sunny Island products are small in power (4.4 to 8 kW) and allow easy integration of batteries of different technologies into the solar system in an easy way. It is interesting, in this product line, that the different inverters and their associated systems (solar panels and batteries) can be connected in “cluster” or islands and be able to grow a micro-network in a modular way. These inverters can operate without grid (off-grid solar system) and in grid-connected systems with batteries. Without a doubt, a great SMA product that will allow you to adapt to any situation.

SMA is a market leader offering a wide range of highly reliable, robust and long-lasting products. We could consider SMA as one of the kings of the manufacturers of premium solar inverters that offer very good German technology products. You can find more information about SMA products in our inverters section at https://tienda-solar.es/es/1924-inversores-solares