Making simple solar panels in poorer countries
If you are not from a poor country, maybe products, about bigger systems, might be of more interesting. I don't have any personal experience of their products. They look interesting. If any of you follow that link and try the products, I'd like to hear what you think. If the products are a disappointment and you describe convincingly why, I will remove the link.
This video is an introductory film from Graham Knight about DIY Do It Yourself construction of solar panels (by cutting up large commercial sheets and adding simple connections) suitable for running radios and mobile phones in developing countries. His site:
He has made a better presentation of this project here:
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thank you for this video
run that audio through a low pass filter!
@swahili77 ok. some former Polish railroad (PKP) employees that had been
working in company for a long time, and where poor during comunism obtained
social houses that where near the railway… they connect cables to
something (i do not know what exacly, it looks like they are connecting
them to the transformer) and they are leeching electricity. they know
everybody in the PKP, so nobody make problems about it. yes, it’s illegal,
but it is not mass-scale. my homie told me about 2 of them/ 80 km
I’m a fan of DIY guide, specially guides like this one… Nice and
informative video…
Wow this is awesome – now I can listen to the radio and send text messages
while I am starving to death. Thanks friend!
in poorer countries you are left-cableing electricity from railroad
transformer
in a poor countries, we don’t speak english 😀 subtitles please.
oldies can still save the world!
Hey Pops, more info please…
@gkodovas dude are you serious, that wouldnt work! haha perpetual energy.
how did you run the wires to the cd rom disk, thanks
how many Volts generate that cell ?
Nice one Graham. It works, and it’s simple. So as usual the people who can
really make things like this happen on a big scale will ignore it and look
for something more complicated. Oh dear, now I’m being cynical. 🙂
how are you going to “combine them” if you “forget about the sun”?
Showing people how to make simple solar energy devices in poor countries is
a great idea, but even in poor countries people want more energy than
illustrated here. Training people how to improvise usnig low cost equipment
is good and also showing them modern energy efficient devices could be
something to aspire to, Mr Solar Energy
Nice!
Nice vid!! Im using a solar panel in a demonstration in my thesis in the
university of Limerick how to produce hydrogen the only problem is it wont
work under ordinary bulb and it is essential that it works and seen as I
live in Ireland there is a good chance that there wont be much sunlight.
Any chance you know where I could get a bulb that it will work under?
Thanks a million.
thanks for uploading. great video!!
Great video! This will be my next guide to creating one a little better
then the original I did.
Electricity is so expensive now,I wish I could have solar panels in my
house.I hope solar cells become more affortable in the near future.