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Cost Of Building Your Own Solar Panel

A growing number of people are becoming more and more interested to learn how to build solar panels for household use due to the increasing cost of electricity generation and the growing environmental concern against burning more fossil fuels to generate electricity for human consumption .

Instructions and techniques on building solar panels are all over the internet and materials have become readily available in the market like pre-made ones costing around $900 or more and do-it-yourself solar panel kits that are cheaper at $600, making it easier for everyone to build solar panels for household use .

Aside from electricity producing solar panels, there is another type of solar panels commonly used in households and this is the solar water heating panels that are utilized solely for water heating during winter .

Supplies commonly found in a do-it-yourself solar panel kit are: solar cells, tabs, solder and flux, and soldering iron; to construct the panel by connecting the solar cells in series, basic carpentry knowledge is necessary as well as tools like saw, plywood, paint brush, wire cutters, screw driver, caulking gun, volt meter, glass cutters and drill apart from the ones found inside the kit .

The size of the panel and the number of cells to be used would depend on one’s preferred amount of electricity to generate for the household and one can inquire about this information from the hardware store where materials for the panels can be obtained .

Rooftops with maximum sun exposure throughout the day are ideal sites for solar panels but if unavailable, poles that are at least six feet tall can be used to hold the panel up .

An optional battery system can be connected to the panel so excess electricity generated can be collected, stored and used for some other time like during the night when the sun has already set or in the case of some states, excess electricity can be sold to the locality’s electric utility company and earn extra money for the family .

Tapping the sun as our energy source is perhaps the most practical way to lower our monthly electric bill and save the environment from accumulation of greenhouse gasses resulting from burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity so more awareness and motivation is needed to encourage people to build solar panels .