[kkfx]

Consider the peak power of the panel vs the maximum power of the microinverter... My very small p.v. if converted to microinverters from string inverters would be FAR LESS productive due to the maximum power limit of the microinverters, surely they allow "free" panels, mixed with any orientations, many different numbers, even different kind of panels, but they cut much the output to a point they are IMVHO interested only if you can't make chains due do shadows / physical location issues...

[malchow]

No, these days microinverters aren't the bottleneck. The IQ7 can handle up to a 460 W module, with 366 VA output. The IQ8 can handle up to a 540 W module, with 384 VA output. 97.6 efficiency.

[kkfx]

Mh, from Enphase catalogue in my country (France) I do not see such data, the IQ8 are not on sale here and IQ7 variants arrive at maximum at 315 VA for the IQ7X-96-2-INT witch is the top performer on sale here. Anyway, it's still less than classic string inverters even if they give "resilience" and "installation freedom"...