☀️ Building A Solar Panel Laminator (Remastered)
James Biggar 11:32
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Building A Solar Panel Laminator
Get the plans here:
https://resystech.com/solar-panel-laminator.html
For a lot of folks, ordering a pallet of panels is convenient and relatively cheap. For others it's convenient, but not so cheap. Whether or not it's worth your time to make your own panels will depend on a few factors. Do you have experience working with electricity? How many panels do you need? What's the cost to ship panels from your local supplier or retailer, and what sort of warranty do they offer? Can you source affordable components for making your own panels, and what would be your net gain in savings after both material and labour are accounted for? These are just some of the questions that you'll need to consider.
For me personally, it's worth it. I can make my own panels for roughly half the cost of what I would pay to order them (after freight and markup is accounted for). ~70¢/w CAD (52¢/w USD) vs $1.50-$2.00/w CAD ($1.14-$1.50 USD) after freight. Being an experienced builder and entrepreneur, the decision to build this laminator and make my own panels was pretty easy for me. The laminator cost around $200 to build (+ $100 for the vacuum pump), and only uses ~500 watt hrs of energy to laminate a panel. If a person were to purchase that energy from the local grid, it would only amount to 5¢ per panel, so it's really cheap to operate. This laminator paid for itself twice with the first kW of panels that it produced.
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Get the plans here:
https://resystech.com/solar-panel-laminator.html
For a lot of folks, ordering a pallet of panels is convenient and relatively cheap. For others it's convenient, but not so cheap. Whether or not it's worth your time to make your own panels will depend on a few factors. Do you have experience working with electricity? How many panels do you need? What's the cost to ship panels from your local supplier or retailer, and what sort of warranty do they offer? Can you source affordable components for making your own panels, and what would be your net gain in savings after both material and labour are accounted for? These are just some of the questions that you'll need to consider.
For me personally, it's worth it. I can make my own panels for roughly half the cost of what I would pay to order them (after freight and markup is accounted for). ~70¢/w CAD (52¢/w USD) vs $1.50-$2.00/w CAD ($1.14-$1.50 USD) after freight. Being an experienced builder and entrepreneur, the decision to build this laminator and make my own panels was pretty easy for me. The laminator cost around $200 to build (+ $100 for the vacuum pump), and only uses ~500 watt hrs of energy to laminate a panel. If a person were to purchase that energy from the local grid, it would only amount to 5¢ per panel, so it's really cheap to operate. This laminator paid for itself twice with the first kW of panels that it produced.
Follow RST on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/RenewableSystemsTechnology
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