Homemade Solar Panels

Most people who make their own homemade solar panels do so for their own personal use and to save money while some others build them for educational or learning purposes. There are also people who build and sell them to earn extra income.

Whatever your reason for wanting to make homebuilt solar panels don't be put off by suggestions that they're expensive to make. Your own home solar panels are cost effective to construct and certainly much less expensive than buying commercial panels. You also have complete control over the design and capacity of your panels too compared to some "off the shelf" commercial installations.

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So where do you start? As with so many subjects in life the general recommendation is to utilize the experience and wisdom of others. Making a homemade solar panel is no different.

By following the advice and recommendations set out by experts you're effectively benefiting from their mistakes and you can avoid making the same pitfalls yourself. In other words, you need to do your homework!

The basic process of making homemade solar panels involves linking or joining individual cells together to form the panel itself, each panel having an energy rating in Watts - based on the combined rating of the cells it contains.

Don't worry if this sounds difficult because there are some great guides around to help you through the process of making them. Some include a solar calculator which lets you work out how many cells/panels you need for your energy requirements. When assessing your energy needs before commencing your project, remember that a given energy rating is generally based on electricity generation under ideal conditions i.e full sunlight. This will vary in most locations, depending on the season and the weather so don't forget to compensate for that in your planning. Your solar calculator will help you to determine this.

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Your completed solar array will need to protected from the weather. This is most commonly done by making suitable covers from either plexiglass, lexan or even glass itself. Lexan is the material of choice because of it's strength. Plexiglass also has a tendency to shatter because of fragility - but it will get the job done if you're budget is tight and you work carefully.

Next, depending on your intended purpose e.g for a regular domestic application you will start thinking about a suitable mounting point for your solar array. The mounting rack containing the array can either be attached to the rooftop (depending on local government regulations) or if there is adequate space and full, unrestricted access to the sun it can be freestanding.

You may wish to tweak your new solar panels and build an adjustable mounting rack which allows you to vary the angle of your solar array according to track the sun during daily and seasonal variations; this will capture an optimum amount of sunlight for maximum efficiency. Such an adjustable system can lead to an electricity gain of anything up to 40% when compared to a stationary, fixed mount. It can be made so that you can manually adjust it according to the season or even to automatically track the sun but this will obviously be more expensive to implement.

There are so many options towards customizing your homemade solar panels and this is just an example of the sort of fine tuning you can build into your own installation compared to the limitations of a similar commercial system.

And that's what's so great about making your own homemade solar panels; apart from making significant savings in your electricity bills you can tinker to your heart's content to get maximum efficiency. The best thing is if you're careful and follow the right advice it won't cost you a lot of money and you'll have built a useful addition to your home that you can be proud of.

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