{"id":6000,"date":"2025-05-02T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2025\/05\/02\/do-not-throw-away-old-solar-panels-they-can-last-for-30-or-more-years-demo-more-in-description\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:55:12","slug":"do-not-throw-away-old-solar-panels-they-can-last-for-30-or-more-years-demo-more-in-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2025\/05\/02\/do-not-throw-away-old-solar-panels-they-can-last-for-30-or-more-years-demo-more-in-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not throw away old solar panels, they can last for 30 or more years (demo &#038; more, in description)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WqP6_b2llkA?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Please read the complete description of this video. To get to the best and most complete information.<\/p>\n<p>I show not (!) to discard &#038; throwaway solar panels, after their (say standard) lifetime has expired.  What is their lifetime? 20 Years or 30 Years or even 50 Years? <\/p>\n<p>Please know: at the moment where we live now (30 april 2025) there is not (or a very limited) knowledge about how solar panels are (say) deteriorating in their maximum amp\u00e8res range over time (= their energy out, say in terns of Watts) that they can give out, after say, 20 or more years or so. <\/p>\n<p>Guarantee is\/was standard 25 Years and that is completely true. But after these years the panels can surely serve out their energy for another 25 years, thus, in total: 50 years.   <\/p>\n<p>My experience: after say 20 years of using this solar panel (made for 4 Volts and say 100  mA out) is still intact and working OK. <\/p>\n<p>And (much more important !!): the 10 solar panels on my shed in my garden also work properly after say more than 20 or more Years.<\/p>\n<p>They were installed in (say) the year 2000 (better: the 1990\u2019s) and still now in 2025 giving me 10 X 180 Watt in bright and clear sunlight, = 1.8 KiloWatt\/hour when the sun shines bright.  <\/p>\n<p>These solar panels are thus very old and still work OK. In one panel some separate Si-panels shows a few cracks, but they still work on. <\/p>\n<p>So the idea of this video is: rely on your (DC) solar panels. And (not advised) a &#8220;&#8221;home battery&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>When you want to throw away your money: OK &#038; no problem. 5 or 10 KwH (kilowatt-hour) in a home battery is not much for a normal household! <\/p>\n<p>They (home DC batteries) come (in general) with an enormous price. <\/p>\n<p>When you do a serious calculation, bringing everything down to the price of 1 (one) KiloWatt hour, on the location where you live on earth, its latitude, its sunlight during the year, etc. <\/p>\n<p>In general that makes no sense, apart from the enormous environmental issues that come with home batteries, car batteries, say Tesla, or BDY cars from China, etc. <\/p>\n<p>Our Governments have to guarantee our household electrical energy. We do not need home batteries, say to save a few KiloWatt Hour. It makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>My You Tube channel trailer is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xbgQ8T3oqh4?si=q4ox0csfdmXGUUnD<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/xbgQ8T3oqh4?si=q4ox0csfdmXGUUnD<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Type there the keywords that you like (e.g. radio\/audio\/amplifiers\/test\/filter\/) in the \u201clooking glass\u201d = search function\u201d and give \u201center\u201d. Via that you can find specific video\u2019s (under the say 1500 published). When you search, search always \u201cNEWEST FIRST\u201d to get the right overview. <\/p>\n<p>You can also search via the \u201clooking glass\u201d on my Channel trailer via keywords like \u201daudio\u201d, \u201cradio\u201d, \u201camplifier\u201d, \u201cfilter\u201d, \u201cShortwave\u201d, \u201ctransistor\u201d, \u201cFET\u201d, \u201coscillator\u201d, \u201cgenerator\u201d, \u201cswitch\u201d, \u201cschmitt trigger\u201d etc; so the electronic subject you are interested in. <\/p>\n<p>My books about electronics &#038; analog radio technology are available via the website of &#8220;LULU\u201d, search for author \u201cKo Tilman\u201d there. Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/search?adult_aud..=&#038;page=1&#038;pageSize=10&#038;adult_audience_rating=00&#038;sortBy=RELEVANCE&#038;q=Ko+Tilman<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/search?adult_aud..=&#038;page=1&#038;pageSize=10&#038;adult_audience_rating=00&#038;sortBy=RELEVANCE&#038;q=Ko+Tilman<br<\/a> \/><br \/>I keep all my YT videos constant actual. Search on YT and avoid my circuits that are republished, re-arranged, re-edited on other websites, giving not probable re-wiring, etc. I take distance from all kinds of fake claims, made via republishing on www.  <\/p>\n<p>NB: the advertisements showed when you look at my video\u2019s in general don&#8217;t have anything to do with the content of my YT videos. When you see advertisements for certain electronic or electrical things, I do not support them, because I could not test them. Especially: do not fall into the trap of &#8220;home batteries&#8221; advertisements, telling off-grid stories. 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