Building Your Own Solar Panels
June 26th, 2009I have never built my own solar panels. With the research I have made, making individual cells is beyond the reach of most people. But you can make up you own panels from pre-made cells.
New pre-made cells are not cheap. Perhaps if you can source them in bulk cheap enough it might be worthwhile in building a panel in comparison to just buying the panel.
One idea though is to dismantle panels that have faults in them. It is likely that most of the cells in the panel are OK. The idea is to gather, interconnect and sturdily mount individual working cells on a frame to make the panel. I have found a website giving details of how one person did this. It is a time consuming process but if you have the time as opposed to the money and are a good scrounger that you should find this page interesting. The article is called “How I built an electricity producing Solar Panel”.
Have a good day.
