After having good success with adding a small solar panel at my home, I thought I would try to design and built one myself with the goal of having it near as good as a commercially purchased panel. No wood. No paint.
In PART 1 I covered project objectives and I went over the design alternatives.
In PART 2 I covered the basic parts and initial frame concept.
In PART 3 I covered aluminum frame design considerations, options, and selection of approach.
In PART 4 I covered cutting out the backing material and early cell tabbing work.
In PART 5 I covered cutting out the aluminum frame, and then I shared my tabbing results.
In this PART 6 I cover some backing and adhesive test results and set a plan for final panel assembly.
Video capture was done with a Casio EX-S12 camera. Video editing was done with Microsoft’s Movie maker.
Post time: Jan-16-2017