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Archive for May, 2011

Have you ever been in a heated pool and marveled to yourself at how wonderful it is to be able to swim at night or during winter without freezing? Well, you can accomplish that for your swimming pool too by installing a DIY solar pool heating system. As you will see from the steps below, the process is fairly simple.

• Determine how much power your pool will need for heating so you can determine how many solar collectors to purchase. The best place to put solar panels is on the roof so they can soak up the maximum amount of sun.
• Connect all the solar collector panels together using steel clamps to hold them in place.
• Use chalk to mark where they will be mounted so they are properly aligned. Read the rest of this entry »

There are very simple and inexpensive ways to give your home electricity through DIY home solar panels that you can make on your own.  Solar energy for the home is becoming more popular as people are trying to cut down on expenses.  Take a look at a simple method of making home solar panels for your home.

The process is made much easier if you are able to acquire some mono-crystalline solar cells.  These cells can perhaps be bought used on the Internet or even new if you would prefer that.  The idea would be to connect all the solar cells together and put them in a wooden frame or box so they are able to get the sun’s rays.

The box is first made by using hardwood of some sort to make a frame.  The best idea would be to make it shallow so the sides will not shade the solar panels from getting the sun’s rays from all angles.  The base of the box can be made from material like peg board on which the solar cells will be placed.  The next step will then be to solder the cells together so they can be put into the box as one unit.  A basic low-wattage soldering iron can be bought at any hardware or tool store. Read the rest of this entry »