Photovoltaic system the outer edge. Electrically connected and mounted on a supporting structure, solar modules build a string of modules, often called solar panel. A solar array consists of one or many such panels. A photovoltaic array, or solar array, is a linked collection of solar modules. The power that one module can produce is seldom enough to meet requirements of a home or a business, so the modules are linked together to form an array. Most PV arrays use an inverter to convert the DC power produced by the modules into alternating current that can power lights, motors, and other loads.
Length of a module precisely the simple modules. For every finite-dimensional vector space (viewed as a module over the base field), the length and the dimension coincide. The length of the cyclic group Z/"n"Z (viewed as a module over the integers Z) is equal to the number of prime factors of "n", with multiple prime factors counted multiple times. A module "M" has finite length if and only if it is both Artinian and Noetherian. (cf. Hopkins' theorem) If "M" has finite length and "N" is a submodule of "M", then "N" has finite length as well, and we have length("N") ≤ length("M"). Furthermore,