How To Make Flexible Solar Panels

To help give the inside of the solar panel a nicer look i used 2 strips of wiremold and ran the wires inside those.

How to make flexible solar panels. The watt price of the flexible solar panels is higher than the rigid panels. Afterward i took the panel outside in the sun to test the voltage current of the whole panel to make sure i was getting 18 volts and 3 5 amps in an open circuit and short circuit. Cheaper panels will use a polymer called polyethylene terephthalate while better panels will use etfe ethylene tetrafluoroethylene. Flexible solar panels made of ultra thin silicon cells have been around for a while.

Now what you need to keep in mind is that the flexible solar panels make use of monocrystalline wafers. This is also seen in part 7 and part 8 of the video. Using these ultra thin silicon wafers gives solar panels many unique properties including flexibility for some models.