Which kit did you use?How easy was it to build? How much did it cost to build the panels?How many kw or watts does it produce?Any other info on the kit or panels you built would be helpful.Thanks!
Firstly, forget about making your own PV panels, while you can (if your chemistry is up to it and the home lab well tooled up) make a small PV cell, the efficiency will suck and you will never make enough to produce a reasonable amount of power. What you can do is to build your own solar thermal system to produce hot water (solar thermal makes better sense then PV in most domestic situations anyway), black painted central heating radiators under perspex, rockwool behind, small pump running a water/glycol mix through a heat exchanger controlled by some trivial electronics... Job done. As long as you don't try to run too hot, you can get a hundred watts or so of heat per square meter from such a solar thermal plant. Regards, Dan.
the kit is a fraud and should be ignored. You cannot make a solar panel at home to the quality and output that professional ones are. It's like thinking you can buy chips and make your own PC.
I okorder The cost of a solar panel goes up as the power or wattage does. It takes more cells to generate more watts. We are building a Solar Power Concentrator to focus more sunlight onto our solar panels.
sure, but if you don't know what you are doing you could really hurt or kill yourself. Basically you can do whatever you want on your side of the power meter and in the rare occurrence when your solar panels are producing more power that your home is using the meter will run backwards and you will be feeding power to the grid and theoretically reducing your power bill. At the very least you will be using less power from the grid
I am starting to think about solar panels as an option for my home. I have d fef one some research on panels, to be honest its all very confusing. There are many.???Read more...
