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Solar Home Kits
DIY for the ambitious home owner
What are they? Solar Home Kits are instruction manuals that walk you through each step of the way of creating your own solar panel for home. It begins with planning the project, what to buy and where to get the material, the assembly, mounting the panel to the roof top and finally connecting everything to batteries. The programs contain a lot more than just these instructions and some of the added features are the step by step comprehensive guides to set up your own windmill, which is optimal for those of you living in windy areas.
You'll also learn how to reduce your oil dependence and how you can use ethanol as a viable energy source. There are a lot more handy little tips and tricks outlined in many of these packages.
All material is very cheap to aquire and they often promise that you'll get away with less than $200 in total costs. This is the perfect package for the ambitious home owner who wants to upgrade his or her house.
There are a couple of hidden benefits to setting up solar panels on your roof. For instance, you will raise the value of the property. Having a house that has solar panels installed and reduced electricity costs is a huge incentive to raise the cost of the house in case you ever care to sell it.
If you were to become very proficient at building these solar panels, then you could easily charge $300-$500 for the job if you help out someone else. If you are ambitious you could have a nice extra income on the weekends for instance. Not only do you help out your neightbors and friends, you earn mopney and help reduce the stress on the environment. Now that's win-win-win!
And don't forget, this is FUN too!
Simply put, this is not a thing or product you buy that after six months sits and collects dust somewhere. This is an investment!
There are various different packages out there but only a few deliver what they promise. That's why we put togehter this website so could easily find exaclty what you are looking for. As you can see, Earth4Energy is our favourite. Harvey the creator of the program has done a fantastic manual that takes you through all that you need to know in order to have a fully functional solar panel at home.
Green DIY Energy is the runnerup in our review and is a solid manual also. It delivers pretty much the same quality as Earth4Energy does, but we found that the support wa sa little delayed. Not a horrible fault, especially if you are a little bit technically inclined, then you'll have no problem anyway. But for those of you who might be starting out and this is your first attempt at a thing like this, then oue first alternative is probably better.
There are a few other products out there and we did list them below in case you are curious.
Now take a look at some the pictures below. They are the reuslts from following these programs and as you can see, it is some amazing work. And the best part of it is that it is easy to replicate! You can create these too!
Some additional programs,
