My DIY Solar Story
My name is Damon Flowers and 6 months ago, I knew nothing about Solar Power…now it seems everywhere I go, I get asked how do you build a “do it yourself” solar power system?
In the beginning, it was difficult to find complete information…
When I first became interested in DIY Solar Power, I spent hours and hours online googling a TON of keywords AND going from website to website to identify the information I would need to build my own Solar Power system. Unfortunately, the more information I found, the more questions came up and finally, what started out as a simple effort to “save energy”, turned into a complicated, “is it worth it?” chore. It seems like…
…part of the problem when you first start is knowing what information is important and what isn’t!
Through endless searching, I did build up a good knowledge of Solar Power, even to the point of finally knowing what type of system I wanted and the components involved. Armed with the right questions to ask, I began looking for some type of a “kit” that contained ALL of the information I would need to actually build solar panels, wire them together, and begin using homemade electricity. Plus, at this stage, I began thinking about other uses for solar power, including portable systems to take camping. I had finally concluded that…
Using a DIY Solar Power Guide was the best decision…
In my research, I had stumbled across several “kits” and thought it would now be easy to simply purchase one and get started. Man, was I wrong! Just about every kit that I downloaded turned out to be a piece of junk, written with a lot of hype, but little to no value.
Here’s just a sampling of the “kits” that I went through – Earth4Energy, Power4Home, Energy2Green and HomemadeEnergy. While some were good and some were downright horrible,
…there was 1 Guide that really stood out
It’s called Green DIY Energy, by a company out of Colorado, here in the US. This was actually the last guide that I checked out. While I learned a few tips and some good basic information from the other kits, this Guide had everything I needed to build both small portable systems, all the way up to large off-grid “do it yourself” solutions.
