How To Build A Solar Panel - Part 3

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Watch The First Part of This Project First At:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4BKuH...

Visit Solar Tech Town for the full video:
http://www.solartechtown.com

I, Robert Smith, show you every step I take to building a custom made solar panel from scratch. I explain in detail about each item I use and why to use it, so the video is fairly long.

I will be hosting the majority of the video on my own server so you can view it all in one take. It will take time to edit the video, but the more of you that subscribe to the video, the faster I'll try to get it out to you guys as it just shows that people are interested and appreciate what I'm doing, as I'm providing this video for free unlike some videos you see on YouTube.

The method I described in this video is just one way to go about it, however, there are many ways you can build a custom solar panel. Some use aluminum or plastic frames, but I found for a beginner, working with wood would probably be easier and cheaper.

Overall, building a solar panel can be fun, but there are many factors that play into building a solar panel, and I as well still have an extreme amount to still learn about it.

So I hope that for those wanting to learn more about solar energy and wanting to take the adventure of building their own solar panel will find this video very useful.

To watch to full video just video, just visit: http://www.solartechtown.com

Again the video is fairly large, so to prevent from having to put 6 or 7 parts on youtube in 10 minute sections, I'm just going to host in on my server.

If you all have ANY questions, feel free to leave a comment under the video.

Thanks guys!

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[NewnotesJR]

How do those vinyl gloves actually keep you from burning yourself? I thought the reason you were wearing the gloves was to keep the lead from the solder off of your skin.

[RobertSmith3]

@NewnotesJR I was mostly wearing the gloves to reduce fingerprints/oil on top of my solar cells. I doubt I've ever burnt myself with a soldering iron, but that was the primary reason.

[shivb23]

video is awesome but do u have one w/o the music i cnt hear u somtimes due to music.... just asking cause i konw the earlier one didnt have the backgroud music

[RobertSmith3]

@shivb23 I'm afraid not. I wish I did think at the time to run a few test to see how bad the music faded out my voice. Most of what I'm doing is displayed in the black titles at different times in the videos, so hopefully that helps.

[SirSchumii]

When u attach negative to positive it should ad 5v when you add each cell.?

How do you end up with a 10v on 2 strains all conected + to - and - to + ???

Abd you say 12 * 5 v serial gives u 6v .. HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT ?????

Serial is like a acid car battery 6cells 2v each serial gives 12v ..

[RobertSmith3]

@SirSchumii Wow relax my friend, it's not that complicated at all :)

Each solar cell is rated at .5v right?

If I have 12 solar cells hooked up in series, you "add" the volts which gives you this:

.5v+.5v+.5v+.5v+.5v+.5v+.5v+.5­v+.5v+.5v+.5v+.5v = 6v

So now if I add 12 more solar cells (24 solar cells total), we can just add 6 to our total volts which is:

6v + 6v = 12v

So I think you are using "5" instead of ".5".

Each solar cell is rated as ".5v", not "5v"

Hope that helps :)

[Valko19996]

DUDE YOU ARE THE BEST !!!

[TheDoctorSubaru]

It would .5+.5=1 becuase .5x.5=.25 ...no worries I still understood

[brown55061]

For anyone else looking at these vids, having a soldering iron with a flat tip is helpful in doing this. Also, a thicker tip retains more heat so get a bigger tip for your brand iron if possible. I have an 75W with a big fat tip and it heats up very quick and works great.

[NewnotesJR]

Yeah, you definitely need a better soldering iron, you shouldn't have to flatten it like that to melt the solder. You should be able to melt the solder with the point of the iron and a little solder on the end of it.

[bombingparadise]

480P UG BUFFER

360P EVEN MORE BUFFER

720P NO BUFFER WTF!

[fresh4fresh2]

nice video. what happens if i use s platic board insted of wooden board? is plastic dielectrict?

[SunGreenSolarEnergy]

There's been a lot of news recently about sunspots and solar flares. I was wondering if these have any effect on solar power systems? Do they create more electricity than normal during solar activity?

[tomdownard4179]

What is the best voltage to run your system? US Army Jeeps ran 24 volt systems because they were more efficient. I have been told in every electric class I have taken that most every thing in our house that has a 110 AC cord running into it had it turned into DC somewhere inside the appliance. If that is so, why can't we just run our appliances DC from our storage. AC was used to convey EMF over distance, but

we have our EMF locally so what about that? Do we open the TV and find the converter?