Abandoned farm next to us has a curved truck windshield on top of a shed roof. I have some solar cells.
Just for experimenting purposes, if I can cut the winged ends off the piece, which side of the glass should I fasten the cells to ?
Yeah, I get strange ideas,
I want to try using the cells and vacuum forming them to the EVA ? that I bought a couple of years ago.
This would be for experience so I can make up 3 panels of flat glass.
Why do I want to do this ? Well, remember the lightning strike my wife suffered last month ? Sometime just before that happened, we had a severe thunder storm and the solar water heater I made, that worked very well for over a year, somehow had the 5-6 mm glass panel break and allow the rain to get inside and make a mess. The glass was plate, thicker than normal glass and was tinted.
Yes, living in the jungle makes for strange materials to use. I can't get tempered glass here, but, that windshield has the plastic layer between the sheets of glass, sooo, maybe that would work for a solar panel either cells or water heater ??
What say yee backyard tinkerers. Besides me being nutz, how about some serious input ??