Diy Home Solar Panels

Diy home solar panels is a great way to save money compared to buying ready made solar panels. You can end up saving a few hundreds to thousands of dollars depending on how big your project is when you build solar panels on your own. When it comes to building your own solar panels, it is very easy. All you need is the right materials and labor. That’s pretty much it. It is a very straight forward process. You do need to possess a little electrical knowledge to build you own solar panels because you don’t want to end up assembling a useless solar panel.

Below are the steps to building your very own DIY home solar panels:

Step 1: Planning – Planning how big you want your panels to be. You can have a few large panels or multiple small panels. The smaller the panels the easier to handle. Also before you start shopping for materials, make sure you know how much solar power you want to generate. With everything planned out, it is time to proceed to step 2.

Step 2: Shopping – You will need tools for sawing, cutting and drilling. Every household should have those tools. You will need a Soldering KIT!

List of materials you need:

• Solar Cells (MonoCrystalline with Metal tabs). Get as many as to satisfy your needs. Besure to have a few extra incase you screw up while assembling it. Sola cells are very fragile.
• Plywood Boards and Square edged sticks.
• Wood coatings to prevent wood from rotting.
• Peg boards
• Pexiglass
• Silicon Caulk
• Regular wires
• Diode
• Nails and Screws

Step 3: Building the frame – According to your plan, saw and cut your materials to the intended dimensions. Saw your Plywood materials and create a shallow box. You also need to saw your pegboard to fit into the shallow. Once done, it is time to coat and paint your frames. Don’t forget to coat or paint your pegboard as well.

Step 4: Connecting your Solar Cells. Have them lie backwards on your pegboard. Use the holes in the peg board for aligning your cells. Solder your solar cell’s metal tabs to join them together. Spread tiny amount of Silicon Caulk in the center of each back of the solar cells. Then gently flip them over. You should be very careful when you are flipping it. Press gently on the center of each cell to make sure the silicon caulk behind it spreads and sticks to the pegboard. Insert the pegboard into the frame. To Protect the solar cells from weather, seal the front of the frame with pexiglass. And there you have it, your very own diy home solar panel. Continue making more panels until you are left with the last piece.

Step 5: For the last piece, the piece that will be connecting to your appliances, be sure to attach a diode to the postive side. Make sure the diode meets the corrent amphere of your panels all together. The diode will prevent and discharges when there is no sunlight.

Step 6: Move the panels to the location where you want to have it set up and join them using regular wires and a soldering kit.