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What you need to residential solar power

Energy crunch is on, fuel prices have hit the roof and they are slated to break through the roof soon. Days are not far when utility companies will jack up the electricity rates to a point where you will have to run for cover. Everybody is looking for ways to install some alternative energy system at home. Solar power system is one of the popular alternatives.

A Residential Solar Power system comprises of three basic components, apart from the mandatory disconnects and safety accessories:

1. The solar panel;
2. Battery, for storing the energy generated, and necessary charger;
3. Inverter, to convert stored DC power to AC power.

Cost of a solar Residential Solar Power system capable of supplying power to all household appliances can be quite substantial and solar panel makes a significant proportion of it. Fortunately the solar power system can be made in a modular fashion; you install the basic requirement and gradually as the time and the cost permit, carry on adding to it.

Your own solar panel can be assembled by you; the other components mentioned above will be procured as required from the local suppliers.

What you need

The actual process of assembling your own solar panel is not very difficult. You need a certain amount of guidance on some aspects such as:
How to assess the solar panel power rating to meet your needs
Where to buy the solar cells from
How to interconnect the cells to obtain the desired voltage and current capacity
How to assemble the solar panel
How to install the solar panel, etc

There are many guides available to provide such information. These guides cost about $25 to $40. A small search on the internet will get you website addresses at which these guides are available. These guides give step-by-step assembly and installation instructions with pictures/photographs where necessary. Obtain one of these guides, study thoroughly and now you are ready to get going!

To assemble your own solar panel you require the following materials:

• Solar cells
• A sheet of plywood of suitable size
• Sheets of glass
• Copper wires
• Few simple tools such as pliers, screwdriver, hand-drill machine, a soldering iron (with solder, flux, etc) will suffice.

Solar panel assembly:
Arrange the solar cells in rows on the plywood sheet, with the back of the cells on the plywood and in the configuration suggested in the guide book.

• Drill holes in the plywood sheet so that the wires connecting the cells can be taken through to the back. Interconnect the cells as per the instructions.

• Put a backing board on the back of the plywood so that the interconnected wires are held in place and sealed

• Place the sheet of glass over the top of the solar cells

• Put a framing piece over this assembly (as would be done in framing a photograph)

• Seal the edges of the assembly, and your solar panel is ready.

The assembly procedure described above is the basic process of assembling your own solar panel. Of course you can improvise on it so as to make your assembly more sturdy, make it impervious to ingress of dust, water, etc, make it strong so that its installation outdoor will not cause any problems.

A self assembled solar panel can bring about a substantial saving. You can save about 50% or more of the cost of solar panel by doing your own assembly.
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World’s greatest concern today that is hitting every nation is that everyday we’re losing our natural energy resources. Researches explain that if we store a single day’s solar energy, it is sufficient enough to provide a year’s electricity to the whole planet.

The world is thinking about energy resources and spending billion of dollars just to make alternate energy sources, that is heavily available and cheap at cost. Fortunately, Solar energy is the answer of world’s greatest concern. And, this energy can be used through Solar panel, which is used to produce electricity to remote appliances. Solar panel is also used for home purposes.

Steps involved in building Solar panel are not complicated. Starting what you need to do is cut two rectangular pieces of copper sheets and their size can be compared with a stove burner. Then we need to wash off corrosion so clean one piece of copper sheets for that we can use sand paper. After that, put that copper sheet down, on the burner at maximum heat. The color will change towards black. It’s really important to monitor this transformation of color closely, because chemically it’s going through oxidizing. It has to be burned till a thick coating of black material is gained. After being heated up so much the copper sheet is left alone till it cools down, it won’t take much time, normally about 20-30 min. Then once again comes the washing part, using water the oxidized black coating should be removed with hands.

The left over part, which is the copper layer we’ve created, is the required sheet which is needed to build a Solar panel. Now to create a makeshift container, we need a plastic bottle after cutting off its top. Coming back to the second copper sheet, we left in the beginning, bend it this much that it fits with the contour of our bottle, sliding the second piece of copper, place along the inside of our bottle.

The process will be repeated as it is with the first processed piece of copper. These two copper pieces must not touch each other. After that, connecting an alligator-clip lead to each one of the pieces of copper and also connect the alligator-clip lead from the second piece of copper to its positive terminal of the micrometer. Then, stir some salt in hot water till it’s completely mixed. Carefully keeping the alligator clip leads dry; steadily pour the salted water into the bottle. About an inch of the copper piece should be left above the water line. Check the needle on the micro-ammeter.

The apparatus we have constructed is basically a battery, so some charge is bound to be there, no matter it’s in dark or light. Place the apparatus in sunlight and observe how the charge increases as the cell converts the sun’s energy to electricity. So here you go with your very own Solar Panel. Amazing isn’t it?

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