Like me, you’ve thought of setting out to learn how or even if you can build your own solar panels at home. I sure did even before writing an earth4energy review.

Solar energy isn’t the only choice we have for a DIY energy project to produce electricity for our homes but it seems to be the most popular way tight now.

The problem I had with learning a lot of the needed information on how to go about doing it myself as a home project was how hard it was to put all the pieces and steps together in a way that made it crystal clear in my mind and I’m the type of person that likes a road map or step by step instructions and be able to see the big picture before diving in.

You’ll see my reviews here on several other DIY solar energy guides sometime after this earth4energy guide is published.

Eath4energy - Can it Really Do What it Says?

Like me, you’re probably interested in making your own panels to see if you can install the and actually make them work to produce electricity. We all know this technology has been here for a long time but it’s taken till now for most of us to actually want to do it for ourselves.

For me, the main reason is this is a great DIY energy project of the most gratifying kind! The other important reason being that if we were to go and buy from a commercial installer we’d be looking at an expense of $20,000 or more.

Earth4energy’s co-creators Michael and Mark did a very excellent job in the way this was all put together:

Very well laid out step by step instructions with visual diagrams

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What Materials Are needed?

solar cells, batteries, solder, wiring, glue, black paint, silicon sealer, wooden boxing, plastic panels.

If you don’t already have them, most materials and tools can be found at a local home building supply store. The others, like batteries and solar cells can be found in local recycling centers or eBay. To keep this project well under $200 you will need to find these used materials.

So the bad news is…

You won’t be able to build this project for the low cost Mark and Michael talked about. Of course they aren’t in the solar product supply business so they can only guarantee the accuracy of their guide, not the price it’ll cost you to come up with all the supplies.

That being said, as I wrap up this earth4energy review, most of us are resourceful enough that finding these things shouldn’t be too difficult, and even¬†at spending more that they claim it’s still thousands cheaper that going the store-bought route!

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