Build Your Own 15 Watt PV Solar Panel – $130 – Sat. May 12.

Build Your Own PV Panel Workshop –Date: May 12, 2007

Cost: $50

Location: Lowell, MA

Learn how to assemble your own Photovoltaic (PV) panel for producing electicity. Richard Komp has pioneered PV panel production as a cottage industry in Nicaragua, Mali, and Haiti. In this workshop you’ll get to participate in assembling a PV panel. Depending on the number of participants, we will be making one or more 15 Watt panels, which are capable of charging 12 V batteries and thus are good for small applications.

  • What You’ll Learn: How cells and panels are made and how they work. If you don’t know how to solder, we’ll teach you that as well.
  • Time: 9 – 5 pm, Lunch included. Contact us if you are vegetarian or have other specialty dietary needs.
  • Cost: $50; optionally, pre-purchase a 15 Watt panel for an additional $80 or purchase a panel during the workshop Participants: 10 maximum
  • Instructors:Dr. Richard Komp, Virginio Mendonça

Phone: 978 453 4787

Email: virginio@virginiosbackyard.com
http://www.virginiosbackyard.com/workshops.html