Home Solar Power System

June 6, 2009 by admin
Filed under Home & Garden

Considering the promise of a free unlimited supply of energy from sunlight, solar energy panels forms a formidable and viable route to take. Considering the cost of solar panels, it is cheaper than the conventional methods and it is not as difficult as you may think.

A. Essential Components

To build your own solar panels there are several components you need to prepare first, those components are: sheet of copper, an electric stove, two alligator clip leads, a micro-meter, sand paper, and sheet metal shears, table salt, tap water. All of these components will be used to build solar cells.

B. Solar Cells

Solar cells represent a crucial part since it converts solar energy into electric energy. Without solar energy panels, no sunlight can be gathered through your solar cells.

C. Building Your Own Solar Energy Panels

After collecting all the components, you must clean the copper sheet carefully to avoid any traces of Sulphide. Then cut a piece of copper sheet in accordance with the size of your electric cooker and ensure the size is right.

Heat the copper sheet on a burner and then cool the copper sheet slowly. During the end of this process you will get a copper sheet in form of layer with soft red cuprous oxide.

During the last step you will have two copper sheets, one with red cuprous oxide, and the other which is a clean free copper sheet. The red cuprous oxide must be connected to the negative terminal, while the clean one must be connected with the positive terminal. Place the saltwater at the bottom of the plates as the last step, and you have made your own solar panels.

There are several points of reference online that provide step by step instructions on how to put together your own solar panels. It may not look as nice as commercial readymade packages but it is cheaper and it works just as well.

There you have it your very own home solar power system.