00:00Well, to start manufacturing our solar panel, we will need the following elements.
00:06Some aluminum foil, used in food, that we can have in the kitchen of our house.
00:13We will need a piece of PVC pipe of 2 cm in diameter and 48 cm long, approximately.
00:22We will need a roll of transparent adhesive type, a piece of wood, two screws, two washers,
00:32a piece of cable with terminals, to be able to remove the power cable from the solar panel,
00:38and 15 used CDs.
00:41These CDs have a color as well as purple.
00:45These are the CDs that we are making our invention with.
00:49This type of CD that is here does not work, this does not work, because these CDs have
00:55an essential component to make our solar panel, which is silicon.
01:01Silicon is a semiconductor that is what will help us creating our solar panel, so these
01:06are the ones that work, these don't.
01:10We will also need this photo frame, or printing frame, or whatever you want to call it.
01:16It can be disassembled, it has a removal frame and wooden back.
01:21Now we are going to start manufacturing our solar panel.
01:25We will start by turning the frame over.
01:29This is very easy to disassemble.
01:32If it's pressed down, these tabs are moved to the side and it is very easy to disassemble.
01:39And now, on this wood, we will begin to mount our solar panel.
01:43Next, with a piece of pipe, we will make the support to put the solar panel inclined at
01:4945 degrees.
01:50We will make this support with this wood, making a joint, and with this piece of pipe
01:57so that it rests against the ground.
01:59In this way, it will have stability and we can place it at 45 degrees in the direction
02:03of the sun.
02:05We mark where it will go to make the holes.
02:09Now we have to take into account that we have to place the CDs.
02:15We have five CDs to mark the position.
02:20Now we put two more CDs so that it is centered.
02:25The position is this because in this CD you have to make a little hole.
02:31We will do it here.
02:34We remove all of this.
02:38Keep in mind that this frame measures 40 cm by 60 cm.
02:44With this, we will generate approximately 12 volts, ok?
02:47We will have a 12 volt solar panel because we take into account that each high silicon
02:52CD will generate about 0.8 volts.
02:58We mark here one, here another, and here another.
03:02And now we can start drilling this.
03:09We leave it there.
03:12And now we are going to drill the three holes.
03:16Ok, we already have the three holes to be able to screw the support piece from the back.
03:24But first of all, we are going to touch up this piece a little.
03:28Now we will make another hole in the center of these two holes.
03:33And first we will make a hole here and a slot.
03:57Now we are going to hit the end of this tube with a blowtorch to be able to flatten it.
04:09We tighten it and let it cool down.
04:39We remove all the clips to hold the frame.
04:52And now we have to put aluminum foil on the surface.
05:10And now we stick it with a transparent adhesive tape.
05:40We already have our base prepared and now...
05:56Now we are going to screw the bracket plug from the leg to the rear.
06:07Now we screw the plug at the rear and we have to make the hole to pass the cable from
06:17one side to the other.
06:35Here is a hole.
06:37We puncture that hole with a screw and screw the negative cable.
06:47And here goes the positive cable screwed with the CD.
06:51But we will do that later.
06:53Now we have to make the conductive tracks that go on top of the CDs.
07:02We cut a 60 cm piece of paper, which is the length of the solar panel that we are going
07:09to manufacture.
07:16We must cut it into three pieces, but first we are going to cut the other 40 cm piece,
07:26which is what our solar panel measures.
07:3040 cm.
07:35And we cut it into two pieces.
07:41And now we fold it.
08:11So, we already had these two and now it is in three pieces.
08:30And we already have the three 60 cm conductors and two 40 cm conductors.
08:52Now we mark a hole through which the cable will come out.
09:02And now we have to pass the cable through the tube.
09:15Once the cable is passed, we have to put the screw to fix the tube to the piece of
09:20wood.
09:35Now at the end of the cable, we will put a strip to connect the cables.
09:54And now we start to put the CDs, first this one with the hole.
10:00We also have to put the electrode that we have manufactured.
10:04And on that electrode we put the screw with the washer.
10:16We already have our positive pole and our negative pole below.
10:21Here we can see in detail how the negative pole is cut with the aluminum foil by the
10:25bottom of the CD below.
10:27So negative below and the positive pole is attached to the aluminum foil at the top of
10:33the CD and thus through the wood.
10:38Now we have to start placing the other CDs.
10:48And we begin to glue the CDs with hot glue only in the center.
10:56We place them well centered and apply hot glue.
11:21All the CDs are already fixed.
11:23Now the only thing missing is we need to put the electrodes from the top to communicate
11:28with each other.
11:51Once we have this, we have to put transparent adhesive tape so that the electrodes of the
12:21perfect since we have already created our 12 volt solar panel.
12:28Now we are going to put the glass protector and its aluminum frame.
12:34Well here we have our aluminum frame with its glass and we are going to assemble the
12:39solar panel.
12:56It is already assembled.
12:58Well here we have our solar panel finished and ready to put it to the test.
13:06Now we will go to the street to a sunny place so you can see how well it works.
13:11This is wonderful, a 12 volt solar panel measuring 60 centimeters for 40 centimeters to transport
13:18it in your car, in your motorhome, on vacation or wherever you want.
13:25Well friends, now we are going to put our solar panel to the test.
13:29Today is a sunny day and we are going to check that it actually gives us a voltage of 12
13:35volts.
13:37As you can see, when connecting the voltmeter, the voltage it gives us is 12.5 volts and
13:44if I disconnect it, it goes to zero.
13:50All right!
13:52Now let's test a 12 volt LED bulb.
13:56We connect it to the cable that we have removed and as you can see, it turns on without problem.
14:05And we are in the middle of the field.
14:11You can see that we only have our solar panel connected.
14:14There is no electric outlet around nor any power source where we can connect this bulb.
14:26And to finish the test with our solar panel, we are going to connect this small 12 volt
14:32motor as well.
14:33As you can see, it also works when we connect it.
14:37Instead of this motor, we can connect a water pump, we can connect lighting for a home,
14:42for a caravan, for a car, charge our mobile phone, a thousand different applications with
14:49our solar panel.
14:51So well, that's it!
14:53We hope you liked this video of the solar panel of 12 volts and 30 watts of power.
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