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Re: Battery charger with solar panel

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: Battery charger with solar panel
Date 2017-02-04 22:36 -0500
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On 2/4/2017 9:17 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 16:35:25 -0800, mike <ham789@netzero.net> wrote:
>
>> Do you really need 75Wh/day?
>> http://www.harborfreight.com/15-watt-solar-battery-charger-68692.html
>> For $12, it's hardly worth walking all the way to the lab to
>> turn on a soldering iron so you can spend way more than that
>> making one.
>
> Argh.  That's an amorphous silicon solar panel.  Low efficiency (about
> 7%) but cheap to produce and works in low light and shade:
> <http://www.solar-facts-and-advice.com/amorphous-silicon.html>
> <http://energyinformative.org/amorphous-silicon-solar-panels/>
> In full sunlight, open circuit voltage = 20v and short circuit current
> = 0.1A or 2 watts.

Not sure why you are multiplying these numbers, but assuming this is the 
potential power output from the panel is a faulty deduction.  Is this 
just a convention for rating a panel?

-- 

Rick C

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Battery charger with solar panel gm <notmy@mail.com> - 2017-02-04 21:41 +0100
  Re: Battery charger with solar panel Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-04 13:49 -0700
  Re: Battery charger with solar panel Baron <baron@linuxmaniac.net> - 2017-02-04 21:39 +0000
  Re: Battery charger with solar panel rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-04 17:05 -0500
  Re: Battery charger with solar panel mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2017-02-04 14:42 -0800
    Re: Battery charger with solar panel Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-04 16:00 -0700
      Re: Battery charger with solar panel mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2017-02-04 16:35 -0800
        Re: Battery charger with solar panel Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-04 17:38 -0700
        Re: Battery charger with solar panel rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-04 19:42 -0500
          Re: Battery charger with solar panel Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2017-02-05 04:22 +0000
            Re: Battery charger with solar panel mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2017-02-04 23:26 -0800
              Re: Battery charger with solar panel rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 19:55 -0500
            Re: Battery charger with solar panel rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 19:54 -0500
              Re: Battery charger with solar panel Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2017-02-07 03:55 +0000
                Re: Battery charger with solar panel rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 23:41 -0500
        Re: Battery charger with solar panel Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2017-02-04 18:17 -0800
          Re: Battery charger with solar panel rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-04 22:36 -0500
            Re: Battery charger with solar panel Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2017-02-05 01:03 -0800
  Re: Battery charger with solar panel Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-02-04 22:02 -0700
  Re: Battery charger with solar panel dakupoto@gmail.com - 2017-02-04 22:25 -0800
  Re: Battery charger with solar panel boB <boB@theresnoplacelikehome.com> - 2017-02-05 16:38 -0800

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