How to make a solar panel at home part 1 save on your power bill

step by step of how to build your own solar panel. It is easy and fun. Great school project.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• photovoltaic
• 3x6
• tabbed
• solar
• cells
• sylgard 184 encapsulent
• glass.
• Aluminum
• frames
• with
• mounting
• bracket's.

[bluehoneycomb]

How much do you end up saving on a store-bought solar panel by doing your own? How much are the individual cells and the rest of the materials? Thanks for sharing.

[markp0177]

@bluehoneycomb I can make a panel for half the cost and a lot better quality frame and glass.

[troybrownrigg]

Can one use something else instead of Slygard. At 40.00 + makes it the most expensive part!

[markp0177]

@troybrownrigg I have not found anything better. Mark

[FlowerGiftShop]

excellent video

what you really need is a manual

to follow in order to build

a solar panel by yourself

there is a website that explain

what is the best way - there are some surplus solar cells

anyway - look it up on Google - TopDIYsolarPanels(.)Com

[markp0177]

@dyenamic Watch the new videos in HD

[Certiport1]

I like it.

I would like to know how to build my own photvoltaics.

[markp0177]

@HomoYoutubus Sorry about the noice. I have new videos in HD with a professional camerman and they are holding the mic over my head with a long pole. Watch them they are much better.  Mark

[amxmachine]

@Jdonovanford Part III, underneath these carts on one side of the circle is a magical furnace that never runs out of energy (sun). it heats up the carts with water and they begin to push on the carts in front of them. the carts reach the other side where a block of dry ice (your wall outlet) is sitting. as they pass by the sides of the carts rub up against the dry ice cooling the containers and heating up the ice. this cycle can slow down and speed up if the furnace is hotter or colder

[amxmachine]

@Jdonovanford Part II, back to a lower state of energy, but the lost energy has to go somewhere, so it converts back into a photon and becomes some version of light (electromagnetic radiation). inside a solar cell we happen to have a big circle or semiconducting metal. this is called a circuit. let me build an analogy for you. the circuit can be compared to a set of tracks in a circle loaded with minecarts from end to end. the carts are filled with water.

[amxmachine]

@Jdonovanford Part I, the electrons come from the semiconducting circuit attached to the PV cell. basically photons come in from the sun and collide with electrons in the silicon cell. the electrons enter an excited state due to the photoelectric effect discovered by einstein. the law of entropy states that all energy tries to exist in the smallest, lowest (most effecient) energy state possible so the electron needs to get rid of the energy. if there is no where to move the electron will decay

[makeSOLARPANELS]

I built 6 panels... awesome! ★★★★★ stars for the vid