peel and stick solar panels

[Bullwinkle]

http://www.righttoolusa.com/p/Unisolar-U...QgodCH4AmQ

About $2.00 a watt and shade tolerant - amazon has them as well ....

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=unisolar

[kalakoa]

Available from many eBay sellers, who often include free shipping because these can be rolled up into a flat-rate box.

Supposedly the valleys in the widest pattern of standing-seam roofing are just wide enough for these; only downside is that the 144W units are really long.

[rainyjim]

Not to hijack the thread, but I want the kind you can paint on rather than stick on ... Do those exist yet?

Cheers

rainyjim

[Obie]

You might want to read this

http://www.rechargenews.com/energy/solar...312862.ece

The parent company filed for bankruptcy in Feb and was unable to attract any bidders in a bankruptcy auction.

This is the very detailed installation instructions.

http://www.altestore.com/mmsolar/others/...-Roofs.pdf

Not quite peel and stick!

[Bullwinkle]

have been using unisolar for about 15 years - no issues at $2.00 a watt for shade tolerant - ill do some tinkering .....

I like the 15 inch width 20 foot length, I'll be running two of them along the ridge - I'll most likely glue this stuff to a 1/4 inch plywood backing board with liquid nails, attach that to some treated 1x4 mounted to the roof ..... then read the instructions.... grin

Check out the photo as to how well this stuff works on a metal roof (my application being asphalt) on tin this looks slicker than snot...

http://www.soldonsun.com/Pr/Solar/Mod/UNI-Modules.html

[tada]

I linked the Papaikou contractor couple times before-

http://www.hawaiisolarroofing.com/hawaii...ducts.html


Unfortunately the bankruptcy cut short the development of the next generation hi efficiency laminate. not even lucrative enough for the vulture capitalists- where Romney when you need him?

Some other more established thin film manufacturers like Dow Chemical and First Solar announced hi efficiency product. As consumers of electricity we read these blurbs with great anticipation but but apparently too expensive to develop with the glut of the conventional panels from China.

[Bullwinkle]

Unisolar a division of BP when all r&d was done. They were first on the market with "shade tolerant" without that feature - any shade on any cell would knock out the whole panel

The shade tolerant aspect made it possible for me to go solar as I could not get permission to cut down the 700 year old oaks to let unfiltered light in......

Now at two dollars a watt (clearing outt the stock)- I am buying all I can for another (new) cabin project. $2500 - 3500 for 1kw full 120 volt system sounds like a deal to me - hard to go wrong

[tada]

thanks, looks like i got 1 month to get the tax writeoff at least!

[melo1112]

here is a link to a company in Miami that has them for $1 a watt ,i purchased from sun electronics a couple of times while on the mainland & had no problem with pallet size orders .Cost and shipping to Hawaii may be a different story .

http://www.sunelec.com/x-specs/unisolar/...-sheet.PDF

link to their main page

http://www.sunelec.com/

[buster]

I went this afternoon to the warehouse of a major ebay seller/shipper of these "panels", recycledgoods.com in Ventura, Ca. (I live nearby)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Uni-Solar-PVL-128T-128-Watt-24-Volt-Brand-New-Flexible-Amorphous-Solar-Panel-/200844102382?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec33dcaee
Nice people, they have an excellent feedback rating, the panels looked in very good condition; they said shipping 2 units in one 35 lb. box from there to Hawaii, would cost $88.00. The absolute smallest box they will ship these things is 16"x 16"x 16" (for fear of over bending and damaging). Wish they would fit rolled up into a flat rate box, maybe a different manufacturer...