High quality and processed silicon solar panels are easily available in the market today. Whether it’s residential or home use, people are now considering making their own solar panels.
The most frequently and commonly asked mind is that is it toilsome to make solar panels all by myself?
Solar panels are very easy to be made in classhold by making use of templets which are very easily available online. Also, you can use the kits that are available at or so all of the electrical stores. People with the spirit of usually doing their electrical equipments at work will find the action very easy. Even if you don’t have any experience, a good guide with step by step procedures that includes pictures and videos too will be really helpful to you.
Solar cells or photovoltaic cells are one of the first things needed . They are very light in weight and taken anywhere . You need to choose on where you want to make solar panels and install them. Flat rooftop, back yard or garden of the house are the main best places for making and installing your own solar panels because these are the only places in which we receive huge amount of sunlight.
After you select the correct spot , start the procedure.
Below are some of the components which are necessity in making these panels:
- A copper sheet
- 2 Nos. of alligator clips
- A micrometer with the capacity to read the currents between ten to fifteen amperes
- One electric stove
- Sand paper, tap water, table salt and sheet metal shears
Cut the copper in the exact size of your electric stove. Clean the copper sheet exhaustively for any conceivable traces of oxidization. Heat it on the burner till the colour changes to brown and then finally into a pack layer of black coat. Then this sheet should be linked together with another copper sheet of the same size. Join them by using alligator clips and place it into a bottle. Make sure that the two sheets don’t touch each other. The black copper sheet must be connected to the terminal which says negative and the other one connected to the positive terminal.
Now place saltwater at the bottom of the plates and make sure that the clips are dry and doesn’t touch the water. This is how you pass electricity from the rays of the sun.
Just as , the black copper plate acts as the semiconductor! It is a kind of an insulator where electrons are tightly bounded with their atoms and do not flow freely and acts as a conductor where electricity will flow severally.
When solar energy hits this semiconductor, it will also hit the electrons. Some of these electrons gain so much energy that they will ultimately generate electricity. These electrons then move to the saltwater, into the clean copper sheet, into the wire and then through meter goes back to the semiconductor and generate electricity.
Make your home solar friendly and cut down your electricity bills as you now know how to make your own solar panels.

