Making Your own Solar Panels

Solar panels are cost effective and environmentally responsible addition to your home. Making your own home solar panels is easy. You can make a small device in an hour’s time. Today is more than ever the right time to save money on your current bills. Furthermore, there is even greater need to go green and save the environment.
Learning to make your own home solar panels allow you to cut your electricity costs in half. You may even have the electric company pay you when you send it back to the electricity grid. When you learn how to make solar panels, you will save more money and invest in a green future. Although manufactured solar panels are great since they do all the work, you have to pay a premium of more than 2000 percent compared to doing it yourself for just under $200 and sometimes even lesser if you know how to negotiate with the hardware store.
Solar panels can be used to power up devices such as the washing machine, fridge, dryer, electric stove and other appliances that draw the most power. The benefits are endless and you can save hundreds of dollars each month and thousands in a year. A solar panel will actually pay for itself in two months instead of many years. Things you would need when making your own home solar panels include sheet metal shears, one hotplate or electric stove, tap water, one micro-ammeter, safety goggles, one 2-liter plastic glass or bottle, two or three tablespoons table salt, electric drill with sand paper, two alligator clips and ½ -foot square sheet of copper flashing.
Below are the steps when making solar panels:
1. Cut the copper flashing in a rectangle or square to fit the electric burner using sheet metal shears. Make sure to use a piece of copper flashing that is cleaned thoroughly. You can use sandpaper to remove signs of corrosion before you proceed.
2. Place copper flashing on the electric burner and turn it on. You have to ‘cook’ the flashing for about thirty minutes or more to make a thick layer of black cupric oxide.
3. Let the copper cool slowly once the layer of cupric oxide has formed. It will start to flake off with some force since the copper and oxide cool at different rates.
4. Scrub the thoroughly cooled copper under running water to remove remaining bits of oxide. You have to be careful so as not to remove any red cuprous oxide created when heating the flashing.
5. Cut another copper piece to the same size; attach both panels with the use of alligator clips to the inside of the wide-mouth glass jar or plastic bottle with the top cut off. Make sure the panels do not touch and they should bend to match the curves of the bottle or jar.
6. Connect the alligator clip lead which fastens the clean copper plate to the positive meter terminal. The negative terminal should be connected to the cuprous oxide plate.
7. Make a water and salt solution by dissolving salt in hot tap water. Make enough solution to barely cover the plate bottoms, leaving the clips dry and high.
8. Place solar panel in the sun to see the gauge jump to reflect the current that your project has created.

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