After you have manufactured your solar panels. The next step is to put them into a system which can use all the electricity which they produce. So you either feed the electricity to the grid, store it in batteries or power your appliances.

 

Mobile Solar Powered Systems

This is the quickest one to build. All you need is an inverter, charge controller, a battery and your PV solar panel. Remember that as you make or purchase additional solar panels, these can be added to the system at a later date. The solar panel produces DC current. This needs to be converted to an AC current which is the job of the inverter. You can store excess electricity in batteries, because once electricity is produced it has to be used, so use it or lose it! Do not use standard auto battery, use a deep cycle battery.

 

Grid-Tied Solar Generator

If you currently have your electricity supplied by a utility company then give this type of setup very close consideration. In this system, you do not use batteries, you feed all unused electricity back to your utility supplier network. This has the effect of reversing your meter and so your electric utility supplier will credit you on your bill. After you Build a Solar Panel, you will appreciate how easy they are to make.

 

You can easily build one panel in 7 days and let's say over a year you build 35 of them. This could turn it a very profitable income stream which will not only pay for all your power bills but may also pay for all your household bills!

 

Grid Tied Generator + Battery Bank

To add more security to your power supply, you may want to consider having a battery bank to go with your grid tied system. Should you have a cloudy day, or at night when you are generating no power, what do you do then? The battery bank is a passive supply of electricity, which has been previously charged up with any unused electricity generated over the past couple of days.

 

Solar Power generation With Off Grid Houses

If you are not connected to the grid then you will want to have a battery bank of some considerable size. And by having a battery back-up you will not have wasted any power you may have generated and not used.

 

Batteries perform better when they are warm so it is wise to invest in a battery box and keep them in your garage. A battery box also doubles up as offering a safety feature, so kids or animals don't get to close. Just imagine if your dog peed up against a battery, or perhaps not!

 

Final thought, if you already have a generator, consider linking this to your system as this can charge your batteries should they get run down.

 

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