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Build Your Own Photovoltaic Solar Panel for less than $104.85

Submitted by khalifa saber on Tuesday, 23 September 20083 Comments

Mike has written a guide to building your own solar panel. Mike Davis, in his own words “likes to build things”. This post is but a very small summary of Mike’s page and his detailed explanation of how he built his own solar panel for just over a Benjamin.

In Mikes’ words then…

“Several years ago I bought some remote property in Arizona. I am an astronomer and wanted a place to practice my hobby far away from the sky-wrecking light pollution found near cities of any real size. I found a great piece of property. The problem is, it’s so remote that there is no electric service available. That’s not really a problem. No electricity equals no light pollution. However, it would be nice to have at least a little electricity, since so much of life in the 21st century is dependant on it.”

“I built a wind turbine to provide some power on the remote property. It works great, when the wind blows. However, I wanted more power, and more dependable power. The wind seems to blow all the time on my property, except when I really need it too. I do get well over 300 sunny days a year on the property though, so solar power seems like the obvious choice to supplement the wind turbine. Solar panels are very expensive though. So I decided to try my hand at building my own. I used common tools and inexpensive and easy to acquire materials to produce a solar panel that rivals commercial panels in power production, but completely blows them away in price. Read on for step by step instructions on how I did it.”

Head on over to Mike’s site

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3 Comments »

  • Cathy Patterson said:
    Thank you for this post, it was really interesting to read. I was looking for new information about Photovoltaic solar panels and this was very nice to read.
  • Solar Panel Builder said:
    EXCELLENT BLOG!!

    i find that people are just completely being kept in the dark about the cost of solar installations for the home.

    Way to share the info!

    Great work on your blog (Bookmarked!)

  • Make Solar Panels said:
    I too will give you a link. Great Pics. I will check out the guide and head over to Mike’s site.

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