© Lloyd

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* I heard about how to get cheap solar cells with which to make your own solar panels cheap at this site: http://www.homemadeenergy.org.
* Then I found this site, http://www.bringaboutgreen.com/solar/where-buy-solar-cells, which has a link to where to find solar cell dealers to order from on eBay. You can also go to eBay and search for "solar cells". This site says tabbed solar cells are a little more expensive than untabbed ones, but it takes about 6 hours to make a solar panel from untabbed solar cells, but about 2 hours from tabbed solar cells. The tabbed solar cells seem to go for about 80 cents per watt.

A friend just mentioned this site, http://www.sunelec.com, where whole solar panels go for $1.55 per watt. That's about twice the price, but you don't have to buy all the material to assemble them. So that seems to be a pretty good deal. Other supplies there seem to be reasonable too.