You’ve seen the advertisements, “Build your own solar panels”, you’ve seen the kits, now you wonder, just how hard is it to do? Well, that depends, mostly on your skills and patience. It would seem that the solar cells that are sold for this purpose is very delicate, they break very easily. I always see on eBay, lots of listings for broken solar cells, they still work, but they obviously do not put out as much juice as it did when it was unbroken. It is possible to piece together broken cells and get a perfectly good working solar panel, again, it takes skills and patience...
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ahhh....home sweet home
ReplyDeleteWretha, cool videos of your ultra-cool cabin home! I love the greenscience videos, too, (the one about the solar shower is particularly amusing and informative) and am happy that you have an easy link to them from your blog-o-spot. I've always wondered about those diy solar panels and now I know. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSeth :)
ReplyDeleteG, thanks, I like the Green Science You Tube videos, they are real people, doing real experiments and have lots of humor at the same time.
Wretha