Home Build Solar System

Home Build Solar System

Why pay lots of money (or any money) for a program that shows you how you can make your own solar panel as you can get this for free.

Visit Home Build Solar System on http://home.kpn.nl/maas5455/and experience how also you can make not only solar panels but also how to make the whole system for half the price of panels you buy in the shop for free.
Those systems are mostly made from materials you can buy locally in your DIY shop and materials which are easy to get online.

Its time to harvest the sun and get your electricity for free.

See you at http://home.kpn.nl/maas5455/.

Step 1 The initial intention

I could see that my electricity bill was increasing year after year, just because the modern day appliances cant be turned off any more and before I noticed I had many appliances in the house which are on standby day in day out.
This all not only harm the environment but also my bank account as I am using electricity for nothing.
Not to solve this problem (as this is how appliances are made and I cant change this) I started to look into renewable energy to compensate my unneeded losses and to take some pain away from my bank account.

Wind energy was no option due to the area Im living in, hydro electricity is no option as I live in a flat country with next to no rivers so solar power was the best solution.
Than the price of solar systems appear to be horrendous, far too much that the system ever would produce in its estimated 20 year lifespan.
So I tried to get governmental grants for this project but grants for those kinds of systems where limited and did I miss out.
But I still wanted a solar system but I didnt wanted to pay the high price, so I decided to build the panels myself.
Yes you see this right, I wanted to build my own solar system and I can tell you now its possible and well with materials bought local in DIY shops and easy to obtain parts from the Internet.
No Im not a technical wonder and I dont have lots of experience working with electricity, I just looked around and taught myself how solar panels are made, how other might have done it and made out of this a workable plan of how I could do it.

Comments

[admin]

This is a great Instructable, but you need to add a main image of the final project to the intro step. Please do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks!

[bodie]

What was the difference in the rated output between the "B-grade" cells and the "A-grade" cells?

[Home Build Solar System]

B grade cells are the normal A grade cell but do they have small production mistakes. For example if you got all the connecting current lining (H-pattern frond grid) on the cells than it can be that by a B grade cell one or two of those lines are not connected. If the damage is more it becomes grade C and D. This is not really a problem you’re talking over at the most 1A loss as that the cell is still working as it should, it’s just that on the damaged place the current has to find a different route (is resistance) to the main bar. So in this case, when I order 1 set of 100 B grade cells all the cells will be whole (I don’t get any broken ones and I don’t know which quality grade this is) and behaving near enough as A grade cells.

[fractal74]

I make solar cells here in the USA. A grade and B grade are exactly the same electrically. The only difference is the way the look. I would gladly use B grade cells in a solar pv setup.

[l8nite]

You almost make it seem easy enough for an electrical illiterate like myself to attempt

[Home Build Solar System]

I’m not electrical educated nor trained or any electrical work experience myself, I’m good enough to change a light bulb and install an electrical socked and that’s it. For making a solar panel you don’t need much electrical knowledge as you’re not designing or developing a panel. All you need to know how to connect the cells in series, and this is easy like top of the cell (+) you connect to the bottom of the next cell (-) and the top of the just soldered – cell (this is the + again) you connect to the bottom of the next (-) cell and so you create a string of cells. The diode in the junction box has got an arrow on it (comes standard) to show you which way you have to install this thing (as the current only flows one way through the diode as a non return valve in liquid). And that’s all.

[Home Build Solar System]

Done, thanks.