pics of solar panel elements

I don't have the grid-tie inverter or plexiglass to cover the panels, but here's the rest of the components. Where I thought it was useful, I put a measuring device, such as a ruler or a t-square, so you could see the dimensions of the objects.


Here is the tabbing wire, which I solder to the back of each cell.

Here's the front/back of the same cell, you can see how I have soldered the tabbed wire to 6 points on the back. When they are attached, the wires will go from the back(positive side) of this cell to the front (negative side) of the cell below. They will end up in a grid of 6 by 6, for 36 cells, measuring roughly 19 inches by 38 inches.


Below is a stack of 35 cells, so you can see the thickness. the stack behind it only contains 24 cells, but they are all tabbed, increasing the thickness.















Here's the 'raw' panel, which will be changing a bit, but you can see that it's build to hold 3 solar arrays at 6x6 cells, of 37"x19", roughly 37"x61" total.




So that's all but the kill a watt power measuring device, which will be included in the next post, as well as the grid-tie inverter.