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Build Your Own Solar Panel Kits
Build Your Own Solar Panel Kits
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List Price: $110.44
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Weight: 2.00 lbs
 

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Build Your Own Solar Panel Kits:
Our Solar Panel Kits enable you to make your own solar panels for less. Each kit comes complete with all necessary interconnection components, including: soldering iron, solder, tabbing, flux, solar cells, and instructions on how to connect cells together to construct your panel. These kits have never before been offered online and they are recommended by several Universities and personal buyers.

Customers have utilized these kits to construct up to 1.5kw solar panel arrays. Easy to comprehend instructions are included with each kit. For complete solar panels, please view our solar panel selection listings.

How Solar Panels Work:

In 1839, Edmond Becquerel discovered the process of using sunlight to produce an electric current in a solid material. However, it was not until over a century later that the process was truly understood. Scientists learned that it is the photoelectric or photovoltaic (PV) effect which causes certain materials to convert light energy into electrical energy at the atomic level.

The photoelectric effect is the physical process by which a PV cell converts sunlight into electricity. When light shines on a PV cell, it may be reflected, absorbed, or pass right through. Only light which is absorbed generates electricity.

The energy of the absorbed light is transferred to electrons in the atoms of the PV cell. With their newfound energy, these electrons escape from their normal positions in the atoms of the semiconductor PV material and become part of the electrical flow, or current, in an electrical circuit. A special electrical property of the PV cell, which we call a "built-in electric field", provides the force (voltage) needed to drive the current through an external "load," such as a light bulb.

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  • Includes complete set of solar cells to construct 12v battery charging solar panel.
  • Detailed assembly instructions.
  • Soldering Iron & Interconnection material
  • Liquid Flux for easy soldering
  • Soldering and wiring diagrams

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