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By building your own homemade solar panels, you can now easily take advantage of free solar energy and lower your electricity bills. This is particularly useful for homeowners in these difficult economic times. Best thing is, the technology to build and install homemade solar panels is now within easy reach of the average consumer.
If you appreciate the occasional DIY project, then this one is perfect for you. With a proper set of tools and the right materials like plywood, glass sheets, and photovoltaic cells, you will be able to start building your own solar energy panels. You probably already have most of the necessary tools at home, and the other materials are easily available in stores or on the Internet.
Where to Install your Homemade Solar Panels
The rooftop is generally the best place to install solar energy panels, as this is the area that usually receives the most direct sunlight. If this is not the case, the panels can also be placed in the backyard, in a spot where the sunlight is not obstructed.
Homemade solar panels are easy to install as long as you have an instructional guide handy. You will find a number of affordable resources available on the Internet that you can use.
Taking it One Step at a Time
The best way to start your project would be to first build a small solar panel. This way, you can familiarize yourself with the process of building the panels more easily. Once you have completed the first panel, you can then start building more until you reach the number required for your home. If you wish, you can even build enough solar panels to provide for all of your home energy needs, making your home completely independent of the regular power grid!
Solar energy panels also require very little effort to maintain, making this a favorable DIY project for many homeowners. If you are willing to put in the effort to make this DIY project work, you will find that building homemade solar panels will save you large amounts of money on your electricity bills.
Want to build your own homemade solar panels but don’t know where to start?
Fret not! Many people just like you have successfully built these on their own to DRASTICALLY cut their monthly electricity consumption. They are already shaving $1000s off their energy bills every year. If you need STEP-BY-STEP guidance in installing one, I have reviewed the Best Online Guides on Homemade Solar Panels for your convenience. These highly recommended guides provide EASY-TO-FOLLOW instructions that will help you save money in no time.
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Cut your sheet of plywood to fit the dimensions needed for your array of solar cells.
For an array of 36 solar cells of 3 inch by 6 inch mono-crystalline,
accounting for room in between the cells,
you will need a plywood sheet of 45 inches by 24 ¼ inches by 3/8 inch thick.
Please note that you must use cells of the same size–don’t mix sizes on the same panel.
Using the wood glue and wood screws, mount the 4 strips of ¾ inch by ¾ inch wood along the outer edges of the plywood.
This will provide a shallow panel box for the solar cells.
Drill holes in the bottom rail of the ¾ inch strip for ventilation,
pressure equalization, and to allow moisture to escape.
Holes must be in the bottom rail only.
Run a strip of vent tape over the holes to prevent dust and bugs from entering the panel.
Cut the peg-board to fit within the panel box.
Cut plexiglass to the same dimension as your sheet of plywood.
The plexiglass should rest on top of your ¾-inch railing.
The plexiglass should NOT lay inside of the railing.
For now, set the plexiglass aside for later use.
It will be attached after the solar cells have been constructed.
Paint your panel box and peg-board with exterior latex paint.
This will aid in protection from outdoor weather.
Let paint dry for 24 hours.
Assembling the solar cells
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Located at 223 Crenshaw Way in the “Legends” Golf community of Warmans north end. This Rocy built home offers the standards that are surpassed by no other-the construction you don’t see such as the T&G plywood flooring and the Plywood roof Sheeting, the acrylic stucco exterior repels water stains and allows for longevity in the darker stucco colors, engineered truss floor systems allows for a full 9′ ceilings in the lower levels and provides a very firm solid floor-so when quality really matters, its time to check out a Rocy built home. This particular design is one that has the kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms on the 2nd or top level while the lower level is on grade allowing for a most inviting basement living area due to the abundance of natural light and the south facing rear yard allows for the sun to beam into the grade level family room. The 2nd level or the top floor offers a gas fireplace with tile accents in the living room with laminate flooring as well as in the 2 top floor bedrooms while the bathrooms and the kitchen feature ceramic tile flooring. Kitchen offers Alder Cinnamon color cabinets with door off the nook area to a 2 tiered deck with Aluminum & glass rail. Garage is insulated and dry-walled, large walk-in closet off master bedroom backs green space, energy efficient furnace and water heater. For more info visit http://sellingsaskatoon.com or call Cam Bird at 306-221-0654
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This is the first time I tested my new blades for my wind turbine. They are 5′ 1″ long on a 14″ diameter hub. The rotor is 10.5′ in diameter; the blades are a cedar-epoxy composite; the hub is marine plywood/epoxy. The tower is 36′ high. The blades start spinning from 0 rpm to somewhere near 500 rpm. Although they appear in the video to slow down due to the frame rate, they become invisible to the naked eye. You can read the whole project at http://www.mindchallenger.com/wind
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Summary of Green Solutions
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· Reduced wastage with Factory Built
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· Breathable Building Wrap & Rainscreen
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· Individual Thermostats for Radiators
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The movie we posted illustrates Robolithography (Robotic assembly/printing of 3D products).
The machine in this movie is actually just a CNC machine set up to place interlocking blocks into place. We like to use the term robolithography as it generally provides a more insightful view as to the machines functionality. CNC stands for computer numerical control. A CNC machine traverses thru the x-y-z planes by means of numbers provided to it. It’s actually a bit more complicated…but that’s the gist of it.
The machine in this picture is assembling a section of wall out of Zipblocks. Zipblocks are very simple building blocks that interlock by virtue of placement. When this section of wall is finished it will be moved into place and filled with concrete. This machine can build virtually anything out of Zipblocks. It only needs to be programmed and supplied with some Zipblocks.
Zipblocks are like giant toy-construction bricks that interlock on placement. People can easily use them as well as robots. They are ideal for use with robots as they are based on a cube and this makes it easy to manipulate blocks thru the x-y-z planes. As they interlock on placement…another ideal feature for use with robotics.
Zipblocks are inexpensive and simple to manufacture. They are made from only two parts…sides and lugs. Sides are simply long flat rectangular shaped pieces. Lugs are S-shaped pieces that are used to connect blocks together. To create Zipblocks of different lengths you need only to increase or decrease the length of side pieces and have an adequate supply of lugs. The size of the lugs remains constant among blocks of different lengths. The length of the sides is the only thing that changes.
The components required to create basic Zipblocks are incredibly easy to produce and assemble. Virtually any solid material can be transformed into basic Zipblocks with ease. The materials that one chooses to build blocks from will clearly be dictated by their use, costs of raw materials, durability, and many other factors. Zipblocks are so simple that you can make them out of plywood by making a few cuts and gluing or nailing a couple of pieces together.
What makes Zipblocks so appealing is the fact that you can transform raw materials into Zipblocks at very low costs and this transition adds a great amount of value to your raw materials in that they are now a very easy to use product.
To put things in perspective consider this scenario. Let’s say that it costs $20 for a sheet of ¾ inch plywood and that it costs a factory $2 to transform one sheet of plywood into fully assembled blocks. In this case the transformation from plain plywood to Zipblocks generally speaking adds 10% to the costs of the raw materials. We can now visualize home improvement stores selling sheets of plywood for $20 and the equivalent plywood in bundles of Zipblocks for $22. Now let’s say that you need to build a custom wall unit for your living room. Would you rather buy plywood and all of the other materials needed to build your wall unit and then go home and labor hard to assemble your wall unit or would you rather just buy the equivalent materials in Zipblocks and instantly assemble your custom wall unit in minutes without using a single tool?
Based on the above scenario it’s clear that the transformation of raw materials into Zipblocks provides significant savings in time and in ease of use.
When Zipblocks finally enter the market we intend to offer convenient plans for DIY (do-it-yourself) projects like building dog houses, wall units, tables and etc. These plans will provide a manifest of the blocks needed as well as step by step assembly directions. More or less these plans will be similar to what you get when you purchase a toy-construction brick kit. What’s more is that we anticipate the development of simple software programs that will generate block manifests and building plans based on drawings entered into simulated 3D environments.
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Radiant roof sheathing being installed at another Hibbs Homes custom home near St. Louis Missouri. Radiant roof sheathing is plywood or OSB (Oriented Strand Board) with a thin layer of aluminum on one side to help reflect the suns radiant rays. Your attic stays cooler, your home stays cooler and that leads to a more comfortable living environment and lower utility bills. The product is Energy Star rated and according to its website, “can lower roof surface temperature by up to 100-degrees” and “can reduce peak cooling demand by 10-15 percent.”
Radiant roof sheathing used to cost more than standard plywood/OSB, but lumber prices are down and product competition is up, making radiant roof sheathing an affordable option. A similar type radiant barrier can be added to existing roof sheathing during renovation projects.
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Zipblocks are boring…for that matter so are bricks, cinderblocks, and most other building materials. But hey…lets not forget get that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built from blocks.
This video on Zipblocks is also a bit boring…but if you watch it and then take a few seconds to think about how simple Zipblocks are and what you can do with them…you might develop an appreciation for Zipblocks. What’s more is that if you do like Zipblocks and you introduce them to a company and as a result they decide to manufacture them you’ll get a percentage of the royalties. To learn more about this just visit our website.
What is really nice about Ziplocks is that the entire building system consists of only two types of block and that longer blocks are simply multiples of a single block. Zipblocks can be made from virtually any solid material. Zipblocks are so simple that you can make them in your garage out of plywood if wanted to. Sides and lugs are the only two parts needed to create Zipblocks. So all in all this entire building system consists of only two different block types that can be created from two simple parts.
The costs of manufacturing Zipblocks are low. To put things in perspective consider this scenario. Let’s say that it costs $20 for a sheet of ¾ inch plywood and that it costs a factory $2 to transform one sheet of plywood into fully assembled blocks. In this case the transformation from plain plywood to Zipblocks generally speaking adds 10% to the costs of the raw materials. We can now visualize home improvement stores selling sheets of plywood for $20 and the equivalent plywood in bundles of Zipblocks for $22.
Let’s say that you wanted to create your very own custom wall unit in your living room that covered an entire wall from floor to ceiling. Let’s just say that this wall is 20 feet long and 12 feet tall. Can you imagine how much it would cost you if you walked into your local home supply center and made this request? It would probably cost you a fortune in both labor and materials. Now picture yourself walking into the same store and ordering 4 to 5 pallets of Zipblocks, having them delivered to you home, and then building your very own wall unit all in a days time. The cost would of course be much less and you would have a custom wall unit that you designed and built all by yourself. This would indeed be a much more rewarding experience.
What we just spoke about is more than ideal. What’s more is that when you build with Zipblocks and you make a mistake. No problem. Just disassemble your mistake and fix it. Moving to another home and the living room is smaller? Again…no problem…just dissemble your wall unit, ship it to your new home, and when you get there build another custom wall unit that suits to your needs.
You know, the great thing about these blocks is that you can build just about anything with them. Imagine how much fun you could have building some really cool workbenches in your garage or putting up some giant shelves in there. How about building a dog house for your dog or a playhouse for your child or a closet organizer?
You see there are simply countless things that you can build with Zipblocks and if you ever get tired of what you built…just break it down and use your blocks for something else! Zipblocks are essentially a product that never loses its value or usefulness.
Some other uses for Zipblocks:
1) Robotic Building Blocks — It is easy for robots to manipulate Zipblocks thru the x-y-z planes as they are cubic in nature and interlock upon placement.
2) Concrete Forms — rapidly build a disposable custom concrete forms using some wooden Zipblocks.
3) Levee Walls — 16 foot lengths of Zipblocks made from a hybrid of plastic reinforced with steel and then woven together would certainly aid in the construction of levee walls. New Orleans and other flood prone areas are in need of cheap and effective solutions.
4) Walkways and Patios — 8 foot lengths of plastic based Zipblocks could be used to instantly build patios and walkways.
5) Shipping containers — Build custom shipping containers. Upon arrival in 3rd world countries containers could be broken down and used to construct shelter.
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