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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Typical Home Solar Panels

By Tiens Environ


PV panels are created to turn sun energy to electricity and do a great job of supplying free alternative energy.

This electricity can be used for everything from doing away with your electricity bill every month to recharging the batteries in your cellphone.

Although these are greatly different applications, the PV panels used are extremely similar in design.

Every PV or solar panels are based on a scientific principle called the photovoltaic effect.

This occurs any time certain materials are put in direct sunlight and can transform some of the energy in this sunlight to electricity. This conversion process may be very efficient and can generate quite a lot of power from an average sized solar panel.

Despite the fact that these kinds of PV or solar power panels have been available for many years, they have only become common in their use lately. It is because they have got better efficiency than ever before and are less costly as well.

The typical home solar panels are reaching efficiencies of 16% or better, which is more than twice as productive as solar panels available only a few years ago. This means that the solar panel can covert 16% of the suns energy it receives into electrical energy.

This permits homeowners which use these kind of newer panels to save money by requiring less of them to create the electricity their house needs.

There are also more kinds of PV panels available today as production techniques continue to improve. There is a whole segment of flexible PV panels that have surfaced recently that expands their applicability to a greater universe of new products that older panels could not accommodate.

These flexible solar panels are increasingly being found in lightweight products to charge their internal batteries and adding hours of use to these devices simply by setting them in sunshine. There is even a series of products that incorporate foldable PV panels that are designed to be portable and charge a set of internal batteries that can be used when traveling.

Other uses of these PV panels include providing electric power for RV's and boats. Systems have been released to accommodate both of these markets and will provide a great deal of electrical power from a fairly small and inexpensive system. These portable systems allow you to mount a set of small solar panels on a flat surface of the RV and charge a bank of batteries.

These can be used later to supply electrical power for running your electronics equipment or even powering small kitchen appliances and lighting.

The cost of purchasing solar panels is still relatively high and until manufactures can produce PV Panels that use upwards of 40% of the suns energy they will not be cost effective enough for the average residential solar power installation.

There is a way that you can increase your investment recovery on PV panels. That's to make them your self. It isn't very difficult to make a PV or solar panel. I have found a guide to making solar panels that I think would be worth looking at. It's called Green DIY Energy.




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