Also, where can solar panels be purchased in the Binghamton/Liberty/Jeffersonville area? Home Depot has some on their website & I would like to see them in a store before purchasing or ordering them.

I am interested in starting a company in the next couple of years that would sell, and install solar panels to residential homes and businesses. Can you guys help me out? How would I do this? How would I even begin? I would appreciate lots of resources!

I was curious on the price of maintenance of panels, and the Rebate that the Australian Government offers.This is in terms of installing panels for a typical residential home in Melbourne. And will Solar Panels save you money? If so how much will it save you, and how long will it take for it to pay off.

PLEASE tell me everything about Solar Panels! How they work etc… Thanks in advance.

I’ve been looking at this DIY project of making solar panels</a> and wondered if anyone has purchased any of the solar panel kits that you can buy online to build your own panels. Anyone tried this and if so, was it worth the effort. would love to hear your comments. Here is the guide that I was looking at: http://www.solarpanelsmake.com Let me know!

I came across this site that had links to incredible deals on solar panels for California and Colorado residents (up to ,000 discounts with the new rebate acts)… Just wondering what you guys think about this? I want to install this on my residential and vacation home so I can make some money…

http://www.nwsalesgroupllc.com/products.html

Im interested in constructing my own solar panels out of individual photovoltaic cells, I m a resident in the UK and Id like to attatch them to my south facing shed roofs. After a bit of research ive found the cells for £400 for 300 pieces ( 6 x 6 polycrstalline) or £250 for 100 pieces ( 6 x 6 mono crystalline), each individual cell will generate a max output of just over 4W, so in theory I can generate over a KW on my shed roofs. What are the major advantages of mono over polycrystalline?

Will it be easy to connect these to the house’s power and will it be possible to sell any excess back to the power companies?

Two of us live here but we’re never in so we dont use much electricity, apparently between 3 and 4 KW is the household average usage so I doubt we use more than 2KW, Please let me know if this sounds about right for the amount Im planning to buy.

Are there any grants available for cost of materials? as the government usually pays 50% up to £8000 for domestic solar energy projects? although these are usually supplied and fitted by a registered firm.

Has anyone inititiated a similar idea themselves?

any feedback on any of these questions would be greatly appreciated!

thanks!

We were wondering if it makes sense to install solar panels on our roof? We are pretty handy and do these online kits work? Any recommendations so that we can save on our power bill, thanks.

The ones that have solar panels and and when night time comes they automatically turn on. How do they work? This is for a DIY project I want to try. Also how much power to solar panels generate? What size do solar panels come in? Do they come in the small size that are on solar lights? Also can you buy those solar panels and where?

I’ve recently been looking into alternative energy to run my auto shop that consumes an average of 9.2kw per month. Everything will be DIY of course . Solar panels CAN be expensive, wind is not so efficient, and I’ve found schematics for magnetic generators that have a 20/80 input output ratio.

So the real question being: Is there a way to combine 2 or more systems with some form of power storage unit (batteries?), that will pay itself off within a 12 month time frame??

Not looking for a long winded explanation (no pun intended), but more of a push in the right direction to meet my power and $$ needs. I’m not the kinda guy afraid to do research and get my hands dirty. Again, this is DIY so keep in mind my costs to build the systems would be minimal. Thanks

I’ve checked out a bunch of sites and some youtube videos. Mixcat.com on youtube has an awesome tutorial on building your own solar panels. There’s a lot of info on the web but I feel I’m missing some of the better material. I was hoping some of you DIYers who have actually made a solar panel could turn me on to a website, a book, a forum, a video, or anything that could really get me on my way to building my own solar panel and putting it to work for me. Thank you all for taking the time with my other answers. You guys and gurls are awesome.