Homemade Solar Cell

Homemade solar cells are quite expensive in both time and money to produce by yourself.

If you are not planning to make your own cell then the alternatives left are ” either to find them (possible only if you have a friend at a solar company) or otherwise you will have to buy them.

There are a few methods how you can land up with acquiring solar cells. You can pick them up from a highway patrol (sometimes they might pick them up after a car accident), or else you can also get them at your local hardware store.

The above two ways are possibilities of buying cheap solar cells. Other than that is a way where you can get them easily – its through eBay. It works like this:

First, search eBay for broken solar cells or chipped solar cells which will throw open a number of bids.

Next, look for cells that are not overly-damaged and are of almost the same size, which will facilitate assembling onto one panel – and also decide as to how many you have to procure.

For slightly more money you can also search for transparent cells or newer cells by major companies, such as Evergreen Solar. This alternative will cost a bit more, but it will make it easier to determine how many cells youll need to use on a panel.

But what will it cost in the end?

This entirely depends on the condition of low-cost solar cells when you bought them from eBay, but if you follow what we suggested above, you would not be spending more than a few cents for each cell.

Fully efficient and professionally manufactured cells like those from Evergreen Solar would be costly; however, you may not have to pay in excess of approximately ten cents for each cell.

In fact, the costliest aspect of buying your solar cells online will likely be the shipping expenses rather than the actual products. Depending on the location of the seller and the shipping method used, you may be faced with as much as $20 in shipping costs.

You are likely to pay $ 30- $ 50 for 500 chipped solar cells, which is perhaps not sufficient to entirely cut down your electricity bill. But it is sufficient enough to reduce it and save you thousand of dollars per year.