I have seen a lot of DIY information on making your own solar panels. I have even purchased a couple of them. However, they have not been very helpful in the fact that they either call for buying tons of broken peices and putting them together, or buying each cell and building the frame, and wiring it together. I have a 14’X60′ Mobile home with the flat roof on it. It is in full sunlight 3/4 of every day. I am looking for an inexpensive way to build my own solar panel using the entire roof. I am not looking for the most efficient, because I have plenty of size to work with. I do not have a lot of electrical needs. I am on some medical machines though, if it werent for them I would probably just let the electric go and buy a propane fridge and stove and call it good. I do not want to spend a bunch of money on books either so please no advertisements on where to buy books on this subject. I have very little resources in the way of money or else I would just pay the electric bill, my electric company is 1/4 renewable energy anyway. So if anyone knows of a way to build this, or knows where I can get a book or website for free. please let me know. Thank you,
If I haven’t mokeyed with them before. Because I did.
Hawaii sponger I appreciate what you are saying. And I would support that if I have monkeyed around with it before myself. I had a wind and solar hybrid power plant when I was in Montana and lived 6 miles from the nearest power pole. I learned how to set one up along with solar hot water and hot water heat. In fact mine got me a few jobs when I was there and set up 5 others. But I do not want to spend a fortune on the solar panels the way I did before. That is why I am wandering if I can build a solar panel like they did in the 50’s when PV’s started out. I know they do not produce a lot and you need a lot more of them, but the materials they use to use when it started was materials that were easier to get than the new materials are. However, after web searching and reading a lot of books and spending money hoping to find someone with the answers I am not having any luck, on what they used or how they put it together.
