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Here we continue documentation of the open source tractor (LifeTrac) and the CEB press (Factor e Liberator) as built and used at Factor e Farm. We also show how we made solar panels from solar cells. More info: http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/

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Benefits in Using a Solar Power System in Your Home
If you are reading this article, then you must have heard about the solar power system and you are still researching about the idea before considering that it is authentic and functional. If you are drawn to find out more about this technology, then it must be because of its most striking benefit, which is the money-saving feature. Moreover, you can optimize the benefits when you choose to install it yourself rather than buy them, which is more costly. The following is a summary of all the benefits that you never thought would ever come true from using this technology that you built in your own hands.

Budget Friendly

Solar panels and a power system in your home is a huge help to your budgeting schemes. While sellers are telling you that your electricity bill will be reduced effectively, you should know how much precisely you are saving. Studies have shown that you can save up to 80 percent in your electricity bill if you use solar panels in your home. This is good news especially during the trying times of the economy. Furthermore, since you are choosing to install it yourself, you reduce costs from about a thousand dollars up to 200 dollars or less. A useful manual should do this trick.

Ease of Use

Solar powers and systems are easy to install because of the manuals that you choose to employ. Because they are targeted to ordinary people who do not know anything about solar powers and the likes, this technology should be easy to use. You can have it installed for you fridge or computer that comprises a huge amount in your electricity bill. You can even take the panel with you during your camping trip because it is very portable. You can construct smaller panels for this purpose.

Cheap Investment Cost

Since you do not have to buy your solar power system, you will not have to spend more than 200 dollars, as mentioned above. Aside from the manual, the things that you need may be found in your own home. You can also buy them from merchandise stores.

Environment-Friendly

These things should work effectively. You will notice this benefit when you start using your solar panels. You then start gaining savings and reduced electricity bills. This is not the only thing that is reduced as you also reduce carbon emissions that are harmful to our ozone layer. This is the reason why solar panels are recommended now that we are faced with the global warming problem. After all, this world is for us to keep, not to entirely own. We still have children and grandchildren to live in the same environment that we are destroying.

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Benefits in Using a Solar Power System in Your Home

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With what we know today, why do they keep building new apartments and homes with the traditional electricity. Why can’t they start making solar energy and windmill energy standard for new construction. With all the government grants and tax write offs there is, It can and should be done. With the rising prices of energy some people are left out in the cold, And no-one should suffer!!!! For the apartments that are already constructed and homes also, We all need to start a conversion. Maybe the people of america should get together and start our own savings to convert our energy ourselves, All americans, and leave the utility companies out in the cold for once!

The society we live in is greedy and ruled by lobbyists… Until “green” energy is profitable to the corporations that rule this world solar homes and the like will not be built. You have to be wealthy enough to build your own… Sad world we live in…

but cant aford the thousands of dollars it cost. We have tried to save for over 5 years and still cant afford to do it. we are just to poor. I know there are such things in the north-east, because that is were the polotitions live, but is there anything in the south central, or anything federal the help anywere in the usa.

Why not build a windmill ? This can be done for less than $1k.

So I installed a solar system I bought at harbor freight and was planning on getting the rest of the panels later. It says to leave the regulator on only when your at home. I was thinking what is the difference between my system and the $10,000 system that a solar company would install in houses.

The harbor freight type system is intended to charge a battery, and is low power. It's good for experimenting, but is not very efficient, and not very powerful. I've seen an experimenter say that their 15-watt panel only gave him 5 watts in bright sunlight. If it's the amorphous silicon thin film type of panel, it wears out quickly, dropping to a fraction of its original output in a few years.

The $10,000 type whole house system usually has no batteries, and instead ties to the electric grid. There is generally a 10-year warranty on anything going wrong, and the panels themselves, the most expensive part of the system, have a performance warranty of 25 years. The nameplate rating on such a system may be 4000 watts, and you can actually expect to get at least 3400 watts, usually.

Neither type of system is easily expandable. The big system can be made expandable later, but that involves spending money up front, and the final system will likely cost more than if the larger system was installed in the first place. An extra panel or two could be added to the small system, since it is generally underpowered anyway, but otherwise expansion means getting a completely new system and running it alongside the first.

For ultimate cost effectiveness, the big system is maybe 1/8 the price of the smaller system, per watt.

Please…serious answers only. I know how to use google, but I was wondering if there's a better website that I probably won't find…like something written by a college.

Try these sites;

http://blog.makezine.com/finishedpanel.jpg
The metal grill shown here are at my disposal and I was wondering if I can use them to make solar panels at home for home use. I have 2 of these but there are like 1×2ft.

I would really like some step by step help on this one.
Thanks.
I need electricity not a system that heats water.

You could. But keep in mind that the amount of heat that it can absorb is a function of the surface area exposed to sunlight. The condenser coil that you show would not be very effective.
Edit: The only way you could possibly generate electricity with those condenser is to heat water or some other fluid. There would be a copuple of methods after that. But none are going to be able to generate much. As I said, insufficient area to absorb sunlight.

see i have a big homemade solar panel and it makes about 15 volts in the sun but i want to be able to recharge 4 rechargeable battieries and also i dont wanna use a 5 volt regulator please tell me if there is any way to get the about 15 volts down to a steady 6 volts

I did the same kind of project actually. There is no good, easy way to do what you're trying to. You actually want more than 6 volts. To charge the batteries the charger has to have a greater voltage than what it's trying to charge, in this case your batteries. You should shoot for at least 7 if not more. Also, you need to watch amperage. The amps determine how fast your batteries will charge. If you want a fast charge shoot for 800 mA, if you want a slower charge go for about 300 mA.

Batteries nowadaws are complex. If you hook the charger right up to the batteries, it probably won't work, and if it does it will kill your batteries quickly. Commercial battery charges are programmed in a complex manner so they save the battery life.

This is what I did and what I would suggest. Find a battery charger that has a 12v car adapter. Cut off the car plug, and hook it up to your solar panel. You'll have 15v, so you should have adequate power as long as it's in direct sun. Your charger will only use what power it needs, so the extra voltage shouldn't be a problem unless it was a gross amount of over voltage like 120 volts. Remember that if ithe sun is angled away you won't get full power, which is another reason why you need more than 6 volts. If you try to regulate it to 6, you might only get 4 volts. There are inefficiencies in these things you know.. Anyway, just hook it up to the battery charger and it will work like a charm.