Each of the solar cells referred to in FIGS. 3A-3D may optionally be a plurality of solar cells connected in series and referred to as a serial unit. For example, the solar cells represented by A and L may include a serial unit of two or more solar cells connected in series. This is illustrated in FIGS. 3E and 3F which show physical and electrical layouts respectively. FIG. 3E illustrates a physical matrix of 4 rows while FIG. 3F illustrates the same matrix but with 3 electrical rows as A and A′ as well as L and L′ are serial units of 2 cells each. Current I is shown as flowing through all available paths in FIG. 3F.

Serial units may be utilized to reduce the amount anti complexity wiring needed in the solar array module. While a serial unit is shown as having two cells it should be appreciated that any number of cells may form a serial unit.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary generic solar module according to at least some embodiments of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a generic illustration of the embodiment of FIGS. 3A to 3D. As shown in FIG. 4, a pre-configured, non-reconfigurable solar module 400 has X physical rows and Y columns or solar cells 302. X and Y may be any integer. References in the description of FIG. 4 are to physical rows and columns. As above, cells 302 may be serial units of 2 or more solar cells electrically connected in series.