{"id":6571,"date":"2008-11-01T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/11\/01\/homebrew-solar-panels\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:14:54","slug":"homebrew-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/11\/01\/homebrew-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Solar Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/jar_cell_in_sun_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 365px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/jar_cell_in_sun_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263561978326542194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I hate to tell you, but all you guys who are using STORE-BOUGHT solar panels are a bunch of APPLIANCE OPERATORS. Time to roll your own, and REALLY make your own electricity.<br \/>Woody, KF4TQJ, sent me this interesting link on how to make your own solar panel:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesolarplan.com\/articles\/your-own-solar-panel-collector.html\">http:\/\/www.thesolarplan.com\/articles\/your-own-solar-panel-collector.html<\/a><br \/>Before you get carried away by homebrew enthusiasm, scroll down a bit on that page and check out the cost estimates for large scale application of this technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to tell you, but all you guys who are using STORE-BOUGHT solar panels are a bunch of APPLIANCE OPERATORS. Time to roll your own, and REALLY make your own electricity.Woody, KF4TQJ, sent me this interesting link on how to make your own solar panel:http:\/\/www.thesolarplan.com\/articles\/your-own-solar-panel-collector.htmlBefore you get carried away by homebrew enthusiasm, scroll down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/11\/01\/homebrew-solar-panels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Solar Panels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6573,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions\/6573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}