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By kingkong95

January 7, 2012
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Hi everyone,

I've spent the last two hours or so looking for places online that sell cheap solar panels suitable for making BEAM robots, and so far I haven't found anything that's not overpriced (including shipping) or just not very good for BEAM! I live in the UK, but would happily wait a week or two for something to be shippied from anywhere, as long as shipping doesn't cost a fortune. Also maybe thinking of bulk buying around £50 worth and re-selling any I don't use if it makes things a lot cheaper.

So any suggestions?? Just to give you an idea, I would say £3 was about the most I would like to spend per solar panel :P

Thanks.

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By JAX
@ Mon, 2012-01-09 00:11
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http://futurlec.com/Solar_Cell.shtml

 

By kingkong95
@ Mon, 2012-01-09 21:18
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Wow that's cheap! I'm tempted to buy some more at that price.. :D

By remoteexploit
@ Sun, 2012-01-08 17:30

you can look for these at a home improvement store

 

http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?partNumber=335639-59179-MS8PA-N1-BK-T36&langId=-1&storeId=10151&productId=3323148&catalogId=10051&cmRelshp=req&rel=nofollow&cId=PDIO1

By kingkong95
@ Sat, 2012-01-07 16:32
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I bought a few of these in the end, not too big and seem to have high enough current and voltage specs for BEAM :) I was considering Active Robots too but are slightly too expensive for what I want, that may be where I buy my voltage triggers from though, thanks for the help!

By Mike
@ Sat, 2012-01-07 15:14
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It's been a while since i bought some solar cells. At the time the cheapest place I could find in the UK was Active-Robots.com. You should also look at RapidOnline.com.

Mike

By kingkong95
@ Sat, 2012-01-07 13:15
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Thanks for the comments, solarbotics looks great but the postage is a bit too expensive for me :/ Even the solar panels from hongkong on ebay are fairly expensive, but I'll probably get a few of them anyway. Thanks for the help :)

By SimpleBotics
@ Sat, 2012-01-07 05:59
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Radio shack sells them
By ChuckCrunch
@ Sat, 2012-01-07 03:00
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http://www.solarbotics.com/solar_cells/

http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/?_from=R40&_nkw=small+solar+panels&submit=Search

that's what i got :)