Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage

jeroen8 writes "A Dutch guy was able to build his own solar panel in his garage using materials that were a third as expensive as the mass produced solar panels currently available on the European market. He bought his solar cells on eBay and used them to create his own panel. His output price is only 1.20 Euro per Watt Peak (Wp). This makes you wonder if we are paying too much for mass-produced solar panels, which should, in theory, be a lot less expensive than something you create in your garage."

Comments

Lame

[kheldan]

The headline led me to believe that he was manufacturing photovoltaic cells in his garage, which would have been interesting. I read TFA and come to find out that what he's done is something any 6th-grade kid could do as a science fair project. Not impressed.

Re:Cells are NEW but also STOLEN

[abigsmurf]

If you've a bad solder at a contact it'll produce sparks when there's friction caused by panels vibrating or shaking in high winds. If you've charged wires rubbing, it's going to produce sparks, even at 12V.