Free Report On Homemade Solar Panels Email: We respect your email privacy   Build Your Own Solar Home Power System Last year my neighbors and friends all laughed when I told them I was thinking about using solar power to help reduce my power bill. They told me that it would be too expensive and I'd be crazy to even try. However I knew better because I had done it before, more than 20 years ago. Back then it was much more difficult to find parts then it is today. Plus now you can get big tax breaks and rebates for doing it. So I did some research on where to get cheap parts and I found there's a ton of information out there. Some of it really good and some of it a little sketchy. I did find one I liked called "Green DIY Energy" I bought it because it has great videos. With that information, the whole thing became an inexpensive and fun project. After I got the panels on the roof, I started to save money every month on my power bill. This whole project was easier then I ever imagined and armed with this new up to date guide, "Green DIY Energy" it's even easier and cheaper than ever! My system is expanable so every few months, as I build new panels, I'll add them to the array and save even more. Today I'm helping my friends build their own solar power systems. Everyone says I should start a business doing this. Here I am helping with the installation of a solar power system for the P.B.S television station in Las Vegas Nevada. Enough power from this array to run their remote TV transmitter 24/7 rain or shine over the next 25 years at a VERY LOW cost per year and a ZERO CARBON footprint. I myself lived off the grid for about 10 years from 1978 to 1988. Back in 1978 things were not so easy to do in solar energy, I had very little money, but I was determined to do it. I bought a small house on a dirt road far from power in the high desert region of Southern California. The real estate lady kept repeating "you do know this place has no electricity" I said yes, that's why I want to buy it. She was totally confused. I had previously purchased a single solar panel that produced 12 volts at 2 amps. This I used to charge a 12 volt car battery and I placed 12 volt lights around the house. It was a start but it was not enough I still had to run my little Honda generator to watch TV. Back then the only affordable inverters you could find produced 120 volts square wave AC and TV's or stereos do not like square wave current, they want normal 120 volt sine wave or else you have bars running through the picture and an awful hum in the sound. So on came the generator to watch TV or listen to music. This was not what I wanted so I kept searching for a sine wave inverter and I finally bought one used that required 120 to 140 volts DC input and produced 120 volts sine wave AC on the output and was voltage regulated to boot. Problem now was I needed 120 volts DC to run it. I kept searching the classified section in the newspapers and one day I saw a notice for a government auction at a Marine base not far from me. I drove to the site and found they had a huge lot of very used panels mixed in with all kinds of stuff to be auctioned off. I bid on the solar panels and won the lot for about $180. Now the problem was getting them back home. It took two trips in my pickup across the desert to get them all but at the end of day I found I had 15 good working panels and 8 or 9 that were broken up and damaged. I later used these to build five more working panels. Now I had enough power to run my house without using the generator. Here's how I did it. I really do not recommend that you do this as it is very dangerous to do and besides today you can buy nice 120 volt sine wave inverters that run on safe 12 or 24 volts input. My system consisted of 20 solar panels wired in series/parallel to produce 120 volts DC which I charged 10 deep cycle lead acid batteries fed to my 120 volt DC inverter. This sounds easy but it had plenty of problems. First 120 volts DC is extremely dangerous, unlike AC if you get across it you can't pull yourself off and will be killed. The second problem was keeping the voltages regulated to the correct values to keep the 10 batteries charging properly. I finally got it working and now I had "normal" power in my house. At last I could use regular light bulbs and watch my satellite TV and listen to my CD's all I wanted, it really felt good. Today all the hassle and danger I went though has been eliminated and powering your house with solar panels is easier and cheaper than ever before. If you use one of the new proven step by step guides and blueprints to do this, you too will be able to enjoy running your house on solar energy safely without spending a ton of money. Let me give you a free solar energy manual I put together to help people just starting out with their first panel. It covers all of the basics you will need to know to build your own panels and it's free.

D.I.Y. "Green Energy" Add Solar or Wind Power To Your Home Using Solar And Wind Power Can Save Hundreds of $$$ Every Month on Power Bills      The best choices when it comes to Green Energy for your home and     saving money on your power bill are Solar Power and Wind Power. The 5 Biggest Solar Panel Mistakes And How To Avoid Them 1 Paying $27,000 or more for system installation 2 Not using a proven blueprint 3 Thinking it's too hard to do. It's really not all that complicated. There are guides that take all the guesswork out. 4 Using a low quality guide. You'll save a ton of money and time by sticking with the best. 5 Not getting started. Feel the deep satisfaction of making your own solar power. You can build your own panels with this high quality guide and blueprint that takes all the guesswork out.   Build A Home Solar Power System Under $200 With Step By Step Plans Build A Wind Power Generator Around $200 With These Plans It Is Now Possible To UNPLUG Your House From Your Electric Power Company, Knowing That You Are 100% Powered By Nature Saving Hundreds Of Dollars Each Month On Your Power Bill. 93.9% of the energy that we consume is NOT from renewable sources. The fact is that most people don't know about the benefits of generating renewable energy themselves. They also don't know how easy it is to do this. REDUCE OR ELIMINATE YOUR POWER BILL In the recent past it was too expensive to do. It would cost you anywhere between $8500-$30,000 so you would not recover your investment for years. Today, spurred by the energy crisis, there's new technology that pays for itself within a few months. Anyone who pays a monthly power bill can now afford to do this! Most people just pay $1,000s a year in electricity without having a clue that there is a much better way! A major misconception about solar energy is the myth that you need to live in some place like Texas with a lot of sunshine which is just not true. Take a look at this video about a guy who lives way up north in cloudy Seattle Washington! I have found the best proven guide to building your own solar panels or constructing a wind generator. It shows you how to keep the cost way down because most of the components can be purchased from your local hardware store. This guide has easy step-by-step instuctions, diagrams and videos on how to create each of these systems, wind and solar, with simple tools, and places to get some of the parts for FREE!! Get started by clicking the link below. Build Your Own Solar Panels Convert your home to solar power for around $200 or less using this D.I.Y. information. START SAVING MONEY ON YOUR POWER BILL EVERY MONTH. A Short Story About Living Off The Grid This actually took place back in the early 1980's while I was experimenting with living completely off solar power. As I said in the side bar I was using a 120 volt DC solar array to charge a bank of batteries and converting the DC to AC with a expensive, back then, sine wave inverter to run the house. Since my house was out in "the sticks" I could only receive two TV stations and they were both weak and snowy. So I decided to build a satellite TV system. As you may remember, the Direct TV type of satellite service did not exist then but you could receive TV station programing downlinks if you had one of those large 12 to 14 foot C-Band satellite dishes. I was able to get hold of a 12 foot dish and I bought a nice downconverter and remote controlled receiver. Now I could watch TV in style! One weekend I invited a friend of mine up to visit and experience living off the grid for himself. He brought a large pizza with him and I had a cold 6 pack or two waiting. That day a thunderstorm was brewing in the south when he arrived. After showing him the solar array, the battery room (outside the house) and answering questions about how it all worked it was time to go inside and get out the pizza and beer and turn on the TV to watch a Star Trek episode that was being downlinked to TV stations across the country. My friend thought it was all pretty cool because here we were out in the middle of nowhere with no commercial power sitting in comfortable chairs eating pizza (which I heated in the microwave oven) drinking beer and watching next weeks episode of Star Trek. On the satellite the TV programs were downlinked a week early from what you would see on the local station and this added to his amazment. The thunderstorm was starting to get very loud and we could see flashes of lightning coming through the windows. About three quarters of the way through Star Trek, suddenly we heard a very loud "crack" followed immediately by ear shattering thunder. All the lights and the TV went out, a small puff of smoke came out of a wall outlet (I had MOV surge protectors on each outlet) and all we could hear was the rain hitting the roof. We looked at one another and he said "I guess a power pole got hit by lightning". But then I said "wait the power can't go off because we're solar powered". We rushed outside to the battery room and as I opened the door you could smell the combination of ozone and burnt insulation. The fuse to array was blown but that was not the problem. The last battery on the top shelf was missing a terminal and clamp, just a burnt battery cable was hanging loose. Melted lead from the battery terminal was sprayed around like paint. The lightning had somehow managed to blow the terminal off the battery! I was flabbergasted! I said to myself, I knew I should have put in a ground rod on this system! We both had a very exciting afternoon but later after I replaced the battery I checked all the panels in the array and was very happy to find that both they and my precious sinewave inverter were just fine. So always make sure your solar power system is well grounded, the pizza is hot and the beer is cold.

A Little Information About Solar Power and Producing Electricity From Sunlight Solar panels are "photovoltaic devices" which means they work by converting photons of light into voltage. They are often called "PV" panels for short. The first major use of PV panels was a solar panel-powered satellite launched in 1958 and built by Hoffman Electronics. Back then and up to the late 1970s solar panels were used primarily to power space satellites, lights, and small electronics like calculators and watches. Over the years PV panels have improved in performance and dropped in price. In the early 1990s Germany and Japan initiated long-term solar panel-installation incentive programs that resulted in lower costs for solar panel power and spurred the growth of robust PV industries in both countries. California Solar Panel Initiative In 2006 California made a major commitment to solar power by adopting the California Solar Initiative, a ten-year incentive program with the goal of installing 3,000 megawatts of solar panels on the equivalent of one-million rooftops. This program continues the solar panel incentives started in 1998. This long-term commitment to supporting solar power will have a profound effect on the amount of solar panels installed and the demand for oil. Solar Panel Components Photovoltaic cells are what make a solar panel. These cells are made up of at least two layers of semiconductor material (usually pure silicon infused with boron and phosphorous). One layer will produce a positive charge, the other a negative charge. When sunlight strikes the solar panel, photons from the light are absorbed by the semiconductor atoms, which then release electrons. The electrons, freed from the negative layer of semiconductor, flow through wires to the positive layer.....thereby producing an electrical current.Since the electric current flows in one direction (like a battery), the electricity generated is called direct current (DC). Many individual cells are wired together in a sealed weatherproof unit called a solar module or panel. The Three Types of Solar Panels There are three types of solar panels: single crystal, multi- or poly-crystalline, and amorphous silicon. Each of these solar panel types is estimated to last at least twenty-five years. Some estimate that forty years is a reasonable expectation. The longevity rating of a solar panel refers to the number of years before the unit starts producing only 80 percent of its original power rating. For instance, some solar panels are warranted to produce at least 80 percent of their full-rated power after twenty-five years. Now Instead of stopping production completely, a solar panel will gradually produce less and less power for many decades past its rating. For More Information On Home Solar and Wind Power Green Power For Your Home, Visit: Earth4Energy (another excellent proven guide with videos that eliminate any guesswork) Green Power Easy Home Made Energy For Some Basic Electronics, Visit: Greg's Basic Electronics For Information On Living Off The Grid, Visit: Grid Not For Information On Converting A Car To Electric Power Yourself Visit: Convert Gas Car To Electric