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The cost of non renewable resources is increasing day by day and simultaneously the cost of electricity is also increasing. Our energy resources are also getting harder to find  day by day and we all need to start thinking about we can make solar power or wind power to off set the use of our declining natural resources.

Energy from the sun and wind are renewable sources of energy which can be used for number of purposes. The energy from the sun if used to make solar power can help you to bring down your electricity bill to zero and reduce your dependence on the fossil fuels.

You can easily make solar panels   and you don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars to make good solar panels either. Making solar panels is not at all difficult. In order to build a working solar panel all you need is a little effort, simple materials like solar cells, copper wire, a multi-meter, copper sheet and a few other essential items.

Before you start building a solar power generator you need to select or place in your garden, on you roof or in you backyard where the suns rays are available for most of the day. Solar cells should receive at least 6 hours of direct sunlight to work effectively.

You can make solar power from a single panel but size does matter here. If your looking to run an entire home then on solar energy you will need a fairly large array of solar panels.

To make a single solar panel you will need:

 

•  Multiple solar cells
• Ribbon wire
• Wire cutter/stripper
• Soldering iron
• 15-25 watt and solder
• Pencil eraser
• Ribbon wire or solar cell tin wire

First

You will need to locate the wide line, or bus, running down the face of each cell. Solar cells can have multiple buses.

Then:

You need to clean the bus of each cell with a pencil eraser. This makes the solder stick.

Next:

You need to cut 10-inch lengths of ribbon wire, one per cell.

Then:

You need to lay a line of solder down the length of the cell’s bus.

Step 5:

Place a length of ribbon wire on the solder. Leave a generous tab hanging off the cell and heat the wire with the soldering iron. The solder you just applied to the bus will melt and connect the wire to the cell.

Then:

You need to repeat steps 4 and 5 for each cell or cell fragment.

Next:

You need to turn the cells face-down and arrange them in a column with the ribbon wire tabs hanging off the front and each cell lying on the back of the panel directly above it. Keep about 1/4-inch distance between the cells.

Then you will solder each cell’s free wire tab that is on the back of the cell above it to where it touches the back of that cell.

Finally you will continue to repeat step 8 until all of the cells are connected.

Tips & Warnings:

On both poly- and mono-crystalline solar cells, the back of the cell is the positive side and the front of the cell is the negative side.

You now have a finished solar cell that you can use to make solar power

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