Dirt Cheap Used Solar Panels: 250W for $69 + Shipping 

😂😂😂 wait that is actually true. Holy cow

Crazy. Would be awesome to make an awning out of this and some scrap metal

omg this is actually true. I mean people put them on their roof why not on the walls as well? It would maximize your use of space.

That’s funny dude.. I had the same thought! Build a tiny house or camper with these panels! ✌️PT

funny! but not quite true. these panels are roughly 3.3' x 5.5', so ~18sqft. meaning ~$2.80/sqft. not actually cheaper than siding, even in this absurd market (though engineered siding and metal cladding aren't much more expensive now than they were 1.5yr ago). in my area of southern ca, engineered siding (better than OSB in a lot of ways) is $40/32sqft after tax -- ~$1.30/sqft. corrugated metal is even cheaper, less than $1/sqft. actual junk panels at $10ea could be a truly cheap siding option, and in desert places with no building codes you could roof a small building with these $50ea panels. would need some creative flashing and probably have to remove the frames, but would be neat. i actually might try this.

John, go get ur panels -you have 120 - 75 = 45 years more to live

i have bought the book, was worth every penny i spent

@@mitubogoogle a bit generous don’t ya think 😂

😂😂😂

ahah whats yours?

Do you mind saying which state this is ?

Thanks!!!

Think I will do the same I appreciate all the work you do..

Ok just bought from your link.look forward to reading it

You are so right he is very helpful tbh making life as efficient and cheaper too

That's not a bad idea. Interesting

Fork yes!!!

what about snow...

what about city ordinances ? You are not allowed to place them on the ground without proper authorization where I live, with fines up to 25.000 bux

@@sssaaa9043 put it in your back yard

Any idea where these come from? Are these decommissioned utility scale arrays? Or at least, arrays where they’ve replaced these older 250W panels with more modern higher yielding ones?

@@JasperJanssen Decommissioned arrays of some sort. With so many of the same used ones, it has to be a large scale array. I'm also thinking they replaced them with higher wattage panels. Maybe in a few years I can get 400 watt panels at 50 each and expand.

@@TommyGun1979 They have their use, like all things, a time and place. I live in the literal middle of nowhere, a desert, with no access to electricity, or even water. Were it not for this miracle of technology I would not be able to reply to you as I am doing now, or - hell even stay cool in the dead of noon. Every day I'm thankful I can get any amount of energy at all from the environment, and to be able to do so without expending a natural resource that is not available to me? Such a bargain as Will is presenting us here, these are treasures, and I hope they help many as they help me. Peace be with you my friend.

@@TommyGun1979 XD you have no idea what you're talking about XD you clearly have no knowledge on the subject XD so I suggest you stop talking XD

@@TommyGun1979 these are used panels, apparently. Likely from systems that wanted to upgrade to better ones. So the price is lower because of that, not because they were cranked out cheaply in China

At this price, i could cover the entirety of the factory i'm at rn with my monthly paycheck

Dang it I was going to do that. Just got my ir camera and main reason was to find hot spots on used panels.

@@WillProwse do a video please

Really, every house should have panels and battery storage. And rainwater collection. Off-grid but grid connected.

@hits*academic - Each, as he said, later - 4500 watts rated total. but - he got 27 kWh in a Day, I use 10 - 20 kWh per day - with the high in the Summer! So - I could get away with - due to my 5 hour average Sun Radiance, of about 70% as many of these!

Yeah you can ease the strain on the grid if every house was generating power. Maybe someday every house can generate more power than it needs, but the power companies will find a way of stopping that from happening. I think it was JPMorgan that told Tesla he would Finance his radiant energy plan if he developed a way to put a meter on it. Human beings have not evolved much since then.

@hits*academic we use coal for less than 20% of our electricity these days, which is about the same as we get from all renewable sources put together. We use natural gas for most of our power nowadays.

Seriously , he should..!

Half the latitude tip was very helpful. Thank you.

Yeah youngblood!

IKR

And just imagine if your house so well designed as to insulation and passive solar orientation that you could cool the whole thing with a tiny window unit.

Awesome!

Is the shopping charge reasonable or outrageous? Thanks.

Shipping

@@mariajjenkins Depends on your perspective. I was willing to pay it, so it wasn't too bad. Also there are several freight options like pickup from depot, truck with lift ramp, etc. Go on to Santansolar and it will tell you all of the shipping options if you put these items into your cart. Once you do that, you can decide. :)

@@mariajjenkins I'm in the UK so things may be different here but I've found shipping costs for solar panels to be a major part of the buying choice. More than once I have chosen a local supplier over a better deal from further away simply because I can go collect them myself and save money.

@@popuptoaster I have seen huge lists of the solar that is Surplus worldwide it's not just a never-used 3-phase inverter that battery hookup has for dinner box pardon me 900 bucks before any discount there are oodles of exotic inverters often never installed all over the world with the sense that they are obsolete for Farms but the price is right for individual use the challenge is getting a dongle that will trick them into thinking the grid is online and also to never backfeed power since you don't have a grid but only to charge or otherwise combined with the right controller work well for the relatively steady State Supply. Have a think Channel has a struggling Motorhead that has put together a 10 kilowatt portable liquid nitrogen generator to extend the range of electric vehicles. He has done some remarkably horrific interviews but I respect very much his contribution to the ecosystem. In the space that R1 horsepower evaporative cooler motor takes you could have a 40 horsepower liquid nitrogen turbine and he shows It Off in his hand with the emphasis being this is a standard industrial product! These components are difficult to source if you have all the heat you could possibly use the boil-water not that easy to find one of these little gadgets that you can put the steam into and generate massive electricity. He has chosen a name for his business that is absolutely not one you can remember how to spell or even say. His prior website had a much more understandable name but apparently he learned the wrong lesson about that. When you have energy you can do things that otherwise would be contraindicated and presently some of the poorest people have some of the most sunlight very much unlike the situation in Ireland ages ago. So that means if the tank is small enough and the energy is cheap enough liquefying the address you're 2 store at atmospheric temperature works for micro Mobility. Just a couple cubic inches of the stuff is all you need for a road bike and in general it takes less volume then the best Lithium-ion batteries would take 2 store the same amount of energy. But I have to emphasize that nobody is doing this because the cost per gallon is high for the tank that is strong enough to store the supercritical material. The pressure is greater than that of the instantaneous force of a bomb but of course you f i l l it slowly. For almost everybody all we get is Dogma however which is that you always have to start liquid air either at atmospheric pressure super chilled where you're going to lose like 1% a day or you have to condense boiling off-gasses back to liquid which makes sense if you have a supertanker like the old-fashioned oil tankers or the current hydrogen tankers that are rolling off the factory lot right now to burn the dirtiest call in the world for Japan offshore. Those tankers have nothing to do with storing energy buy Super pressure nitrogen which is another name for calling it when its atmospheric temperature and supercritical pressure. The higher the pressure of the gas in your tank and remember this is neither gas n o r liquid at such a pressure rather obviously the greater pneumatic torque you can get. Yes that means a supercritical nitrogen turbine motorcycle can absolutely accelerate faster than any combustion or electrical model! Finally it's important to remember however 20 cEnts is significantly more then panels have been selling for recently. What is important about this video is the extremely low balance of system cost and of course that's without a machine 2 Contour Earth saving the cost of bricks Etc. We don't know what Microsoft is buying land for so we're going to find out mr. Gates's idea soon

36?!

@@DivergentDroid Nah, just sounds like a LOT of panels. As my wife and I say, "You can never have too many solar panels."

@@drinkinslim if you buy enough of them in the city you can sell your Surplus at's something like $ 75 measly bucks from your front door and reduce the cost after shipping of the ones you used to less than $50 but alas it seems like he hasn'T edited the boilerplate language for his individual videos for many months because he's still claiming batteryhookup will give us 10% off and I think they slashed that down to 5% for all the discount codes nearly a year ago or something right?

I like your attitude.

36?...you live in georgia? can i plug in a long extension cord!!!😀

University’s want you in debt.

@@williamsprout925 BOTTY BITTERNESS BEYOND BELIEVABILITY BILLED BADLY BAFFOON!

@@ereenatc6042 You okay?

I feel he is! Thank you!

LMAO He has a ridiculous amount of money to WASTE on solar. Solar is EXTREMELY INEFFICIENT. They just need to release TESLA'S original FREE ENERGY and Stanley Meyer's car that runs on WATER. But that isn't going to happen because there is no way to control the people with those.

he gets sponsored and promoted even more because he is white. im a fan of him too. and im brown

@@aedgvv6095 i m bleu

Stimulus that keeps on giving back. A genuine investment - smart move.

Bummer! Moving back home to Texas, Hill Country. I was counting on building an off grid system ☹️

@@TommyGun1979 yes panels don't manufacture themselves. Thanks for the enlightenment. Their energy output is still an order of magnitude greater than what it takes to make them. Have a great day driving your lifted dodge ram truck.

@@BullCheatFR Seriously. Tommy is not good at math, apparently. My system is on track to pay itself off in another 2 years... three down already, and still going strong. I love the zero energy bills for an entire summer from May to August, and that's with a hot tub and AC running. I used to get $400 monthly electric bills in winter, now that's like $130 in winter, sub $75 for most of spring or fall, and zero bills in summer.

@@erichtisnado1536 love to hear that! 100% off grid here in AZ. 0 bills. AC running day and night. People don't like math and like to feel good for their (in)actions.

@@TommyGun1979 these panels are not "cheap" they as you would know if you watch the video have survived an entire life and are on their second life now so in fact r meeting their criteria of sustainability which includes REUSE this is actually fAr greener than IF MERELY RECYCLABLE. In other words your comment seems to be the work of a forIEGN Hostile government paying somebody to try to create instability and chaos but is a pretty lousy job at that DUE TO the rather "obvious CLEARLY UNINTENDED facetiousness and well-established malicious purpose of such nonsense being posted."

@@BullCheatFR May I message you about your setup? I'd appreciate any insight you might have if you have the time.

where did you get panels from. have 4500sq foot of roof so can build. larger system

Update? Still working?

Looking to sell the other half!?

@@Chrissy_Onye No , sorry

Don't buy from Satan 😈🤣🤣

@@Randomadventurelife please elaborate.

You can just get another controller. Most controllers will run next to others. Thats what we do if panel sets don't match but you want them all on 1 battery array.

Yes, but it won't be happy days in the fall and winter when we don't see any direct sun for months at a time in Oregon. You either need to really oversize your system, or buy power from the grid in the fall and winter.

From a professional solar, electrical and now battery installers, keep up the good work. 😀.

Such a shame though that solar gain is so limited for the UK, even in most of the south.

Not enough punishment from WI winters and you're going further north?? You're made of heartier stuff than me.

Did you have to do anything with the vinyl to make it more stable?

Where are you located? Dry location or wet?

@@arthurhammeke8296 - not at all.. I simply ignored the lack of vinyl backing, hooked them up, and let them generate power

@@randmdm - I'm located in Louisiana.. its QUITE wet here.. no problems unless the panels are in direct contact with water.. they are mounted on the ground and sometimes we get so much rainwater.. it submerges one side for a day.. they ground out.. but once the water clears.. they work fine again.

That's freaking brilliant! Good thing I have two boys that weld!

@@carlacowling1789 I'm still floored that they aren't a common sight on disaster relief supply vehicle lists.

@@hellcat1988 A trailer with food/water/fuel/generator/medical is much more important for immediate disaster relief. More long term solutions can be built from tubing for the panels with batteries and other electrical equipment mounted on a trailer.

If you have sufficient space I think that’s the best way to go. If your space is limited you just buy new ones with best efficiency.

This 50$ are used ??

On or off grid? Did they match outputs?

@@TheCarpenterUnion Off grid for now, not sure if we'll get easement from the neighbors. They are all used but, they did say they would do their best to match outputs prior to shipping. Will only have room for 40 on our place and reserve the other 20 for MILs ADU and out buildings. @alpenhausbuild

Who'd you buy from? I'm closer to San tan but would like other options

Can I get them in the uk is there a link please

Lol can u pick mine up too!!! Where are they

I just ordered mine, and I'm picking them up from the Savannah warehouse since it is just over an hour away.

They are in chandler arizona which is just outside of phoenix. I'm in mesa which is between phoenix and chandler.

@@DerrickBaxter They have a warehouse in Savannah, GA. ?

@@johntalbert8227 yes, it was at the bottom of the shipping options.

Gumtree is flooded with used panels of many different sizes

Because they can! Lock down construction behind an opaque bureaucracy & then charge whatever you want. America runs on greed over providing service.

Solar Panels have government subsidies, you can write off a part of the cost on your taxes, around 30% is the average. The companies know the customer is getting part of the cost covered by the government so they up the price to acquire that extra money. Plus the US government is constantly changing its policies on import tariffs for solar panels. His estimate is pretty spot on at 16K. Solar Panel installation in the US currently costs double what the top panels cost after the government incentives. If I wanted to purchase and install 20K worth of panels, it would cost me 40K+ to get them professionally installed, before interest if I take a loan. Also, if you get a big enough system for 100% power, most states require you to have extra insurance on your house, which is expensive all on its own. With the current cost of Solar in the US with a professional installation vs using grid power. It will take 15+ years to recover your purchase and installation costs, and that estimate is based on another estimate of rising power costs.

This is insane indeed. I had a system installed last year of 3.9kWp for about 4,5K. 16K USD for 4.5kWp is absolutely insanity.

Greed

They are back in stock and now they have ones for $39.00 each.

Amazing

What is the name of the facility?

They are $70 now and sold out.

They are back in stock. $64 ea plus shipping

They knew it was going to Will - it says its a paid promotion at the beginning of the video

Wait are you kidding me? They just sent me a pallet of junk panels. Even when they know I'm making a video with their product, they send me junk. You must be new here 😂😂😂

@@chuckger1625 and I'm not sponsored or on contract with anyone. I make my money from affiliate sales. That way I can drop any company at any time

@@WillProwse Yes, new to your site but not new to sales gimmicks. As you affirm, those panels were likely pre-screened and quality affirmed by their top engineers.

@@65csx83 yeah I always thought they would too. But check out my other videos. They send me low quality products all the time. The majority of the time. It's ridiculous

Get on Gumtree mate. The Yanks would be envious of prices of used panels. Similar panels would be US$15 in that quantity.

You´re part of the Asian Market. Sure you have far better options.

Good question! Hashtag upvote. Ha

Yeah, won't work for you. Works great for me. They're holding up great and we just had a storm. I never wash them and they still produce a ton of power. Charging my Tesla with it right now

So he got electrocuted?

I was wondering how that could happen until you mentioned the integrated inverters.

Yeah, I wonder how durable they are also compared to the others. Being half the weight makes me wonder if they would hold up under hail and other harsh weather. Even if they don't they would probably still be good for setting them up like he did. You could always bring them in whenever a storm is coming through.

It sounds like you have edited your comment to reflect against the reality that your friend used your Amazon link instead of going directly to the Santana website and paying significantly less than eBay when it's charged after negotiations as to the price the yield with the eBay being the middleman not being important unless you're talking about auction. The concept of the auction certainly applies in its absence especially because the market for these panels is so inefficient most of them are being buried in landfills as a price support means for the new panels LOL not just old. Actually using is that the farm has to use it more than one way like with agricultural plus solar or it can't compete with distributed generation. The purpose of solar photovoltaic Farms is to take Capital that might reduce the burning of fossil fuels and hit the pocketbook of the evil corporations who need us to burn those materials and by burn as the prior Federal Administration demonstrated as inefficiently as possible so as to create as much demand as possible it was the prop up the price as much as possible. Fuel efficiency standards make fuel far less expensive making it that much harder to prevent the clean alternative from disrupting a "[']good[']" business .✅

Rather than edit my comment and take away some truth for the mere service of clarity I'm going to reply here to the error I have made Double Down On It. Ratepayers for Southwest Gas spent a fortune to get a gas engine that would be methane heat pump available for them. The blue flame is taking the sickening PALOUR FAKE FASHION WISE in recent decades and people want to use it efficiently. Do utility which is for-profit of course and does not even use the methane for their vehicles anymore because of the Republican subsidizing the use of diesel And Gasoline by tax credits on the new gas-guzzling commercial vehicles unavailable for frocked methane refueling purposes the subsidies are so high for oil but even if you get your methane for free you will still patronize third-parties. The way industry works is that they will not have their Bluff called until it matters. So repairs paid for the development of the Natural Gas powered residential heat pump and then when it was ready the project was shut down to ensure that they could never actually reduce the amount of natural gas they buy my installing the system they paid for the design engineering and all but production of. It is the same story that is currently playing out with the global cooling prize after nobody got the million dollars but two incumbents evil air conditioning companies that are exactly the entities Lord Branson donated $3000000 to put out of business said we could reduce the global warming by 80% or more and proved it but will now prove that they won't. That's not what the 3 million was for in fact it was spent because we already knew that. Before there was a $5 Awad opportunity or a 50 in this space we knew that a cheap alternative to platinum not for generating electricity but for turning methane to heat would be available and now the headlines reflect the same but nobody even notices. Being able to convert methane to heat for domestic and commercial purpose alone makes electricity for such purpose obsolete. It does not release carbon into the atmosphere and uses less of the methane. That's called a win-win but the electric power industry has already made sure that most of the homes built in recent decades have no ability to have tap access. This is a war and we have lost it without the utilities being now in our streets forcing us to consume the dirtiest fuel possible because of the hemorrhaging of capital involved in electrification. Among the things not 2 hemorrhage is capital if you hemorrhaged capital then you will spend even more, EVEN MORE, blood for the oil. Good thing we are all okay with that.

@@Irene-rp5cd hello. I hope whatever stimulant you're on is treating you well. I have no Amazon affiliate links. Him and I both bought our panels on eBay from Santan. My comment was posted, then forgotten about. Not edited after the fact. Thank you for your concern.

@@Irene-rp5cd in addition. We didn't do auction, we did buy it now.

@@denton3737 why would you have your friends pay eBay Commission?

@random user Thank you for the reply !!

did you ever get them Jonathan Cole

I wasn't sure if I need some, but was like well, just $50 each, get some of them "just in case". Now seeing the updated price + shipping, I know I dont have to buy lol

@@instantwatch1492 The shipping cost was always a factor. I think he mentioned it in the video.(maybe) The extra $5 isn't a overly huge deal breaker, but with the bulk freight shipping you'd ideally want to buy a dozen or more so knowing that you're paying an extra $5 per unit has a little sting to it since you know they 'were' cheaper.

Mr Tyler Ray how many did you get. I live in Washington too

@@fordracer1415 18. Bought another 20, but 60 cell this time.

Exactly!!!

@@typxxilps yeah sure. Really depends on what's best for you.

@@WillProwse "yeah sure" knowing the ratio of the Tesla roof has been seen a change in recent months with the price going up but a higher percentage of fake solar shingles to actual LOL. Apparently Tesla got wind of the SunPower flexible frameless 21% 60% more power car roof solution and is trying to quietly exit the room before the Humble Pie and that is pies not slice arrives. It's Memorial Day and that's happening in July if only in Europe. They got a Whoopi Goldberg sort of VoiceOver going on with their marketing and they should have just asked her right maybe they have her herself for the geriatric RU-vid advertisement Watchers but I am a young thing and I got a young Whoopi Goldberg but still the signature is there and you know what it is probably her herself LOL LOL! Electric is calling it a game changer after making a bad joke about the glue. It's not like wall-to-wall carpeting it's more of an area throw rug the kind that the auctioneers drone on for days about spending only a few seconds on each rug and getting thousands of dollars square yard. The soft costs SunPower understands to be hardened in America approach our Shores. Anybody in the installation industry especially if your job is in marketing currently bitching about unemployment insurance should shut your mouth or know that you are shooting your future foot right off the ankle.

Donald Trump allowed the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile with the new company refusing to activate devices on the formerly Sprint customers now literally and outer space for all practical purposes when it comes to connectivity so I apologize to an entire paragraph being dropped by my keyboard and missing in the comment I reply to now. I was saying that SunPower is doing Europe because they can make the money that has been given two racks in the pricing of their solar panels having an industry that charges always with Tesla currently charges. Because the industry in Europe Wiley speaking is willing to get the return the Tesla gets for their systems for residences mainly about a dollar or what before subsidies they are willing to charge that on the levelized cost nearly four they're all panel cost no budget in other words for marketing that is like 2/3 or 3/4 as it is in the Marca America. I intentionally left the typo regarding the car panel because the corruption of the solar photovoltaic industry has this burning oil and even methane combustion wise for Transit and personal vehicles Etc while we install solar on buildings. Although buildings are the lowest hanging fruit that's for Europe only and before they approached buildings in America they will of course give the Japanese a run for their money at the 40% efficiency level. People think that the gas tax is Equitable when are Harley pays as much for the use of the road as a school bus. People think that those who live in school buses and park for free are a potentially viral solution more than half a dozen Lanes in each Direction because they are actually parking lots with the car dealers the GateKeeper charging about $10,000 for you to move a car from their lock to the public l o t and it is the electric unicycle ironically which has only our cranium available for shading support purposes. It's a good thing that we have multiple solar companies still surviving capable of putting shade on our heads generating enough energy to keep us going faster than the cars actually but on a more practical level a safer more enjoyable commute for sure quicker. It's not the amount of shade you cast it's how you cast it everybody knows this it's the most important thing they ever remember learning but then they immediately forget it ✅

Walmart is dumping the Samsung a21 for double-digit not triple-digit price and that's a pretty good deal on a solid plasma grade picture quality regarding Energy Efficiency for the delimitation of the black which is of course not taking any money from the battery. I have to yet again reply because Dish Network and Google are now dropping written content not merely spoken in the name of progress right? Let the record reflect I am using the beta version of the RU-vid app and it deliberately prevents me from seeing what I'm replying to it is not possible to scroll up to that nor is it possible to selectively edit by copying selectively and removing or by selectively pasting into. The most important thing about RU-vid is the comments so of course children are not allowed to speak in the comments that includes for those who don't know it persons of the year during the years that they are the person to be red read. Look at those two words it makes you wonder given Karl Marx being red if the problem was that he was already ad I did say and I would expect resistance on this plane the powers-that-be sent our military in to kill one man for his ideas instead of put them on trial where he might be heard so the question historically is did we fight a war in Vietnam to prevent people from Reading having taught them are we preventing people from writing accordingly now. Is RU-vid Today's Vietnam War?

You're welcome. I said no to my jab.

@@vhfgamer Smart Will, I commend you on your critical thinking skills

what does the vaccine have to do with solar panels?

@@aleks138 I hate how they call it "the jab"

What you can do without permits varies depending on where you live. As a general rule, "temporary" structures, like the solar array laid out in the driveway (like the video) don't require a permit; however, local ordinances usually restrict the use of temporary structures to 1-3 months per year. Again, you need to check with your town/city/county regulations.