If you pay attention to the roofs of many private houses or small companies, then you can see solar panels. The rise in price of energy leads to the fact that people begin to look for alternative sources. Under these conditions, the demand for solar panels is growing day by day.
Potential opportunities
In the context of the growing popularity of alternative energy sources, it is advisable to occupy a niche in the market on time. To do this, you first need to purchase equipment for the production of solar panels. It can be bought both in Europe, the USA and the CIS, and in China.
Depending on the demand for these products in your region or in places where you can supply the manufactured goods, you need to decide what your production will focus on. Currently on the market you can find panels designed for various applications.
It can be either light portable options that are taken with you on hiking trips, stationary modules suitable for installation on the roofs of rooms and residential buildings, or powerful panels that are used as small power plants.
Working lines
If you have a room for manufacturing, then you can think about buying equipment for the production of solar panels. Also, do not forget that during their manufacture you should always have in sufficient quantities the necessary consumables.
So, the list of necessary equipment includes machines that cut laser material for the panels into squares, sort them, laminate, insert them into the frames and connect them together. In addition, for production, machines are needed that are engaged in mixing special glue, cut the film under the panel and their edges. In the manufacture, one cannot do without tables on which it will be necessary to correct the angles, insert wires into the panels and form them, and carts intended for their movement and pressing.
Each machine for the production of solar cells is an indispensable component of the line for their manufacture. Therefore, before you start ordering materials for production, calculate the total cost of equipment and analyze whether you can afford such expenses. True, it should be borne in mind that if there are distribution channels, they quickly pay off.
Manufacturing process
If you have seen solar panels before only in pictures and have a poor idea of how they are being created, then it is better to find someone who knows the technology for producing solar panels. If we talk about it in general terms, then you need to know that it consists of a number of stages.
Production begins with verification and preparation for work of materials received in the workshop. After cutting and sorting the photoelectric converters (PECs), they arrive at the equipment on which the process of soldering to the contacts of the panels of special tinned copper busbars takes place. Only after this begins the process of connecting all the photomultipliers into chains of the required length.
The next step is to create a sandwich, which consists of transducers assembled in a matrix, glass, two layers of sealing film and the back of the panel. It is at this stage that the equipment for the production of solar batteries forms the circuit of the module, its operating voltage is immediately determined.
The assembled structure is checked and sent for lamination - sealing, which takes place under pressure at high temperature. Only after that a frame is mounted on the prepared semi-finished product and a special junction box is mounted.
Product testing
It is almost impossible to find a marriage among similar products on the market, because each panel after assembly falls into a special testing workshop.
It is there that they are checked for the possibility of a voltage breakdown. After that, they are sorted, packaged and sent for sale, in stores you can meet both small portable options and solar panels for the home.
The production of these species is practically no different.
Of course, only a large manufacturer with large volumes of production and a sufficient number of employees can afford to strictly observe all stages. It is difficult for new small manufacturers to compete with the giants, because the simultaneous creation of large batches can reduce the cost of production.
