One of the panels had been broken in shipment.
Broken solar panels for free.
The bottom line is there might be a free solar panel scam lurking out there but it isn t coming from any reputable solar company like ours.
Many pvc s photo voltaic cells today are actually made of a flexible material with only a glass face on them when they are assembled as as a panel.
An offer of free solar panels may be tempting but it could potentially cost you 25k in energy savings over the life of the system.
In some cases however you might be able to get a hold of full size solar panels for free.
The panel was a big one 24 volt 200 watts.
They own the system and sell energy to you at a discounted rate.
Since solar panels don t have many complicated moving parts this is sometimes very easy to do.
As others have said the legs are a bit spindly but that didn t present a problem and they supported the panels just fine.
Repairing damaged free solar power panels.
We want everyone to go solar but we also want them to fully reap the benefits.
If all your attempts at procuring free solar panels fail or you aren t able to spend the time and put in the effort to do the work consider getting a solar pv system installed for free through a solar power purchase agreement in these arrangements a solar energy provider such as sunrun installs a system in your home for free.
Just a happy customer a professional.
The broken solar cells are ideal for classroom projects projects for youth groups or just teaching your children all about how to work with solar energy in a safe affordable way.
And our broken solar cells are great for a variety of applications such as testing and experimenting with solar energy and learning about solar energy.
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Sometimes the free solar power panels you end up with need some repair.
The solar panels brought them back up to full charge the next sunny day.
I was in the right place at the right time a while back when an alt energy company was receiving a shipment of solar panels.
With them positioned as near as i could guess to be perpendicular to the sun the controller displayed 12 2 amps at 14 volts 170 watts.
With a little fast negotiation i wound up with a free haul it off panel.
If you need to finance your system.