100W Solar panel || DIY or Buy

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In this episode of DIY or Buy I will show you how I created a 100W solar panel by myself. Along the way you will learn how to wire up solar cells and how they are usually wired up in a commercial solar panel. At the end we will then evaluate whether the DIY version is cheaper to produce.

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Music:
2011 Lookalike by Bartlebeats
Killing Time, Kevin MacLeod
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