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When you build a solar panel, there are a number of things that need to be taken into consideration before you actually start. Once you know what you are doing it is a fairly straight forward process, building your own solar panel. What you need is the correct tools, the right products and a good training manual.

That is not the first step though. The first step is to decide how many solar panels you are going to build and what you are going to do with the electricity they generate. Decide how big your dream is. Do want to start a solar farm, building 2000 watt panels and feed electricity back to the national grid or do you want to build 500 watt panels for running specific appliances in your home or do just want a small one; to build a solar panel for re-charging your digital camera batteries?

The process is exactly the same when building a low wattage yield solar and a high wattage panel, besides time and space, the only other thing you need is more solar cells. People want to build their own solar panels to reduce the cost of purchasing solar a panel because they can be very expensive.

So once you have decided what size of solar panel you are going to build, the next step is to determine where you can get a cheap supply of solar cells. EBay is always a good place to start when wanting to buy anything on the cheap, the only downside is that you can’t always get the exact thing you are after. However, this process is a bit hit and miss and only about 50% of the time can you find something that you are looking for.

The best option is to contact companies in your local area who use solar panels to power remote pieces of electrical equipment. Contact these companies and make yourself known to them, tell them what you want to do so at a later date should they have any broken cells they want to dispose of, they will contact you. One of the major users of solar cells are the road and traffic signs, often you see them on the side of the road, and often they will have the company’s contact details on them. These signs get damaged on a regular basis and have to be repaired.

If the solar panel is damaged they will throw the old panel away replace it with a new one. If you have a good training manual which shows you how to build a solar panel, it won’t take much for you to repair a damaged one.

This is the biggest pitfall you have to overcome, so go and find some local companies who are throwing away their solar cells and recycling them.

A final word, if there is one thing I want to drive home to you, is the fact you need to have a very good picture in your mind’s eye of what it is you want to achieve. Having worked on many projects, you can learn from my experience, if you don’t do it you will have a panel fit for nothing. You will make life very hard for yourself and will probably be disappointed. At the beginning and end of each break ask yourself “is this panel going to turn out how I initially intended?

Different Types of Solar Panels

• Polycrystalline Solar Panels – String Ribbon Silicon
• Satellite Grade Solar Cells
• Thin Film Solar Panels – copper indium diselenide

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