Given the present shape of economy, who wouldn't like to save on electricity bills and solar panels help you do that.
While you save money, you'll also be making your contribution to keeping the environments in a healthier state.
As the natural resources like fossil fuels continue to have diminishing stocks, the price of power is going up.
But solar energy in the form of sunlight is endless and can be used to produce electricity.
However, commercially available solar power systems are very expensive.
An economical and easy way out is to make your own system and derive solar power for your personal use.
Producing your own solar power is not difficult as the materials need for doing so are easily available at any hardware store and you may already be having some of the materials and needed tools at home.
The cost of materials wouldn't exceed $200.
Apart from solar cells, the primary component needed for making solar panel for your personal use, you'll need sheet metal, sandpaper, table salt, an electric drill and copper wires.
You will agree that none of the components is very expensive or difficult to procure.
Apart from the materials you should also have an instruction book that tells you how to proceed with its assembly.
You don't have to be an engineer or a highly skilled technician to make solar panels.
As already mentioned solar cells form the main component, as they are responsible for converting solar energy in the form of sunlight to electricity.
The output that you get is direct current (D.
C.
) and if you like to change that to A.
C.
you'll need an inverter.
You may find it amazing but you can make an appropriate solar power system that reduces your power bill by about 50-80 percent!