DIY Solar Panels

Making Do It Yourself or DIY solar panels is becoming an increasingly popular pass time. Even the smallest solar panel can, over time help to decrease your overall household electricity consumption substantially. And that means saving money.

Basic DIY solar panels can be made at home quite cheaply and they're ideal for smaller power use, for example running a freezer or a second refrigerator.

Customize and succeed

You get a lot of flexibility when designing your own home diy solar panels. The idea is to design your system to match your lifestyle and according to your families own particular power requirements. Anyone with only basic skills and a little motivation can really succeed in making their own solar panels whatever their needs, whatever their ability.

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Saving money... and making money as well

Integrating solar into your house can benefit you financially in a variety of ways; excess electricity can be fed back into the power grid, effectively making your meter move backwards and resulting in potentially huge savings.

Some industrious people even make DIY solar panels and sell them on a profit basis so apart from building solar panels for your own use you can use your newly acquired skills to develop a business and make even more spare money.

In fact, it's possible to construct an economical solar panel in as little as two days, making it an ideal weekend project with your family or friends. You'll find that the theory behind making your own solar panels is relatively simple too. And once you've built your first solar panel it's easy to scale up and make more according to your energy needs.

Efficiency considerations

If you plan to use your DIY solar panels for your home they'll normally end up being mounted on your house, garden shed or some other point with full access to the sun. Obviously you're going to need a reasonable amount of sun and this is usually not a big problem in most regions. When mounting your solar array try to make sure it has good ventilation to keep it relatively cool and help to maximize efficiency. Because solar electricity generation is affected with temperature; the higher the relative temperature is the less efficient your solar cells become, meaning less electricity is generated as a result. Keeping things cool helps.

Storing your electricity safely

You need some way to store your generated electricity and a simple system of batteries is used for this purpose. They should be housed in a semi-sealed container - more correctly known as a battery box. The general idea here is the principle that batteries always work better when kept at a reasonable temperature. Containing your batteries in a battery box will help keep the temperature generally warmer and more stable and make your batteries last, and your stored energy last longer.

Your batteries are prevented from overcharging (and therefore protected) by what's known as a charging controller. Finally, an inverter is incorporated to supply the electricity to the household. A carefully built system will be safe and basically maintenance free, apart from servicing the batteries now and again. To extend their service interval you can always buy deep cycle batteries. These are a good investment - many people say they're a necessity - as they'll last longer and hold a better charge, but they will add cost to your project.

Spending your money wisely

Although the process of making DIY solar panels is not difficult, before you commence your project you should get hold of some good instructional material. I say this only because I know exactly how it feels to waste time and money on a DIY project. One of the most popular reasons for building any home project is to save money but when we charge ahead unprepared, unguided and not really knowing what we're doing it sometimes ends up costing us a fortune. I've found out personally a couple of times (the hard way) that it's just not worth the anguish, lost time and bin full of wasted materials. If you start most any project without any idea of what you're doing you're most likely destined for disaster and you're basically throwing your money away.

There are a number of inexpensive, excellent and reputable DIY guides on the market which will can help you build neat projects, step by step, and guide you through everything you need to complete the job. I strongly recommend you checkout some of these guides before commencing your project as they will save you a lot of time, effort and frustration.

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