Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Make A Solar Panel

How to Make Solar Panels
With the economic difficulties of the last several years, more and more people want to learn how to make solar panels. Solar panels and grren energy are becoming more of a common site around the world from neighborhood to neighborhood

In addition to lowering your energy bills, they are also friendly for the environment. You do not have to be a technical whiz to make your own solar panel.Earth 4 Energy

A solar system with all of its benefits and money saving features can be very expensive to have built and installed. Solar systems bought from a distributor can costs thousands of dollars and that is just too much money for most people

This is the main reason why I decided to find out how to make a solar panel myself

Learning to build a solar panel was easy this is how i learned , if I can do it anyone can.


It will cost around $200.00 to build a solar energy system for your home , once you figure in how much you will save with smaller or non existent electric bills it really makes this a no brainer.

What is the most important part of a solar energy panel? I still have a hard time pronouncing it , the photovoltic cell basically this converts the suns energy into energy you can use in your home. My solar panel is rated as a 200 watt and this is enough energy to use for my average size home
Okay so lets get into the nuts and bolts of build a solar panel , what we are going to need.

You can see by the things we need how simple this is going to be to startt you will need a photovoltic cell, glass, copper wiring and wooden boards as well as a good soldering iron. On a sidenote , spend some time researching photovoltic cells there are a lot out there and they are not all the same quality.

We already realize that building a solar panel is going to be much less expensive than buying one One of the first questions I asked was how many solar panels am i going to need , this is going to be determined by the size of your home.

I almost forgot you are also going to need a charge controller. Basically a charge controller is a regulator tell the solar panels how much energy to send to each battery If a battery is over charged it can reduce the life of the battery.

For many years I wanted to build my own solar panels I just never knew how to get started. At around $200.00 a panel for free green energy why would yo not build a solar panel or even better build three.

How to build a solar panel although very easy to do is something that eludes most people , I have often thought about building them for other people or just teaching them how to do it themselves that is one of the reasons I am writing this article. Another great source of supplies is yard sales and military surplus stores to even reduce costs more.

So why are you waiting , like me I know you want to save money on your energy bills and help save our environment so get started and build a solar panel.

Whatever your reason, why not join thousands of other homeowners and fight back against the continuously increasing costs of energy


Click here For Step By Step Instructions on How to Build a solar panel

Build a solar panel