how to make homemade solar panels
How to make a homemade solar panel?
We have 50$ for a science project, and we deciedid to make a functional solar pannel. How to do this?
Hmm, I answered a very similar question to this one a little bit ago “How can i build a solar panel?”. It was asked a few hours after your question, though.
Anyway, I will take my response from that question and tailor it to your needs (the other question concerned a small solar car to be entered in a science fair).
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So, if you want to build your own solar panel that looks like what you see on buildings, etc, you will probably need to be a multi-millionaire. Here is a quote from the first link in my sources list:
“The high-efficiency solar cells you can buy at Radio Shack and other stores are made from highly processed silicon, and require huge factories, high temperatures, vacuum equipment, and lots of money.”
But fortunately for you, there is a cheap way to make a solar panel yourself (see link). I love the scitoys website, but I am not quite familiar with this particular experiment. After glancing over it a bit, I would say not to expect any appreciable power out of this panel (so as the site says, no lighting up any bulbs).
But, you should be able to measure the voltage output easily with a voltmeter and be able to detect different voltages at different levels of sunlight. Also, you can probably improve on the design.
Good luck…
-Ubi
Oh, and the answer before me by eyedontevatrick. If you want to save a question to look at later you can use the Add to Watchlist feature or the Star feature. Check it out.
How to make, DIY Solar Panel pt. 2-4
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