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Question by Morten H: Can someone please tell me some good and bad things about saving solar energy in water or stone from one day t? Can someone please tell me some good and bad things about saving solar energy in water or stone from one day to another. —————————————— Answer by Nthere’s nothing bad
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Question by Mitch: How much current can you make with a solar panel? I would like to put solar panels on my vehicle to run a hydrogen booster, the problem is that a hydrogen booster requires 25 to 30 amps to be efficient. Is it possible to create this many amps at 12 volts using
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Question by : Solar Energy accounts for how much of our energy consumption? I need to know out of all the electricity we use, how much of it comes from solar energy? source please —————————————— Answer by Brian DanthySince heat is what energy through inbody is released, about 25 – 30% of it comes for
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Question by Go Navy: How can I keep my macbook from going black to save energy while idle? I want to watch movies on my mac but each ten minutes or so I have to get up and touch the keyboard or something to pull it out of idle mode.. how can i stop this?
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Question by Conrad: Charging a battery with a solar panel? I have a boat with an automatic bilge pump, and I want to hook up my battery ( 12 volt deep cycle marine) to a solar panel so that it maintains its charge when the bilge pump kicks on, the bilge pump will only kick
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Question by Scatterbrained: What would a 60 watt solar panel power? How many watts for a small home? What would be helpful is some chart or diagram that would put this in perspective for me. I thought it would be neat to save up for solar panels for my home and take the load off
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Question by Ace: Are solar and wind energy systems suitable only when the sun is shining and the wind blowing? Also please refer me to any professional journals and popular literature sources that can help with this question? —————————————— Answer by SadieThere are some options. For either, you can tie them to the grid, and
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Question by Top H: Can a solar panel company sell carbon credits? I am looking to rent roof space and install my own solar panels to produce power. Of course the power will be sold to the local power company, but I am wondering if I can sell Carbon Credits to local companies as well.
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about 1 year ago
Review by L. Anderson for 20 Watt Black Frame Mono-crystalline Solar Panel and Battery Charger
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Location:
K55, Baja California, Mexico
Purpose:
Reduce dependence on buddy’s noisy & smelly gas generator during weekend trips to beach shack. Week of rest after every usage.
System [June 2008]:
-> 60W total [~3.5Amps]. Two 20W [18Vmp] panel & two 10W [18Vmp] panels of the same mono-crystalline construction. [16AWG]
-> Morningstar MPPT 15 Amp Charge Controller. [14AWG]
-> Two [2] new 12V ~100AH deep cycle batteries [parallel ~200AH, 1/0AWG]
-> 700W AC inverter [4AWG]
-> 3.5KW gas generator to 6Amp AC batt charger for extra charging capacity when needed
Current Load:
-> Three [3] 12V x 26W fluorescent fixtures
-> Two [2] 12V x 15W fluorescent fixtures
-> One [1] 12V x 11W fluorescent fixture
-> One [1] 12V x 13W fluorescent fixture
-> Yamaha 2.1 speakers, 25W
-> Dual-port 12V car cig lighter adapter for mobile phone/iPod chargers.
Notes:
Panels are fixed @ slight SW & angle of ~35° from horizontal due to wind concerns, more than output, but very close to local latitude of ~32°. I was at the Baja house when the winds started the raging fires in SoCAL [2007], it was bad.
Voltage reads 20-24+V @ 3.4-3.6 Amps pre-load between 10:00AM & 3:30PM in June. Current load is lighting- OFF & ON 3-4 hours per night. Usually only one or two is ON at any given time. Lights work very well, almost like normal house. iPod is self-powererd to Yamaha 25W 2.1 speakers on inverter for 2-6 hours during day. Currently, we must use generator for TV/movies/games.
Expansion:
Another 20W panel for 80W total went in Dec 2008- another 80W will conclude a 160W system. Goal is 3 to 4 times per month…lighting, music, & occasional 26″ 60W LCD using 15W DVD player & 25W 2.1 speakers for movies when surf is flat. [~700-800 Watt-Hours/day]
about 1 year ago
Review by John Beukers for 20 Watt Black Frame Mono-crystalline Solar Panel and Battery Charger
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Don’t expect 20 Watts from this product. This is the second purchase of the Extreme Power Corp’s 20W Solar Panel. The first unit did not meet the specifications defined on the label attached to the rear of the panel so I purchased this second unit to determine if the first unit was faulty. The second unit performed the same way. Here are the details:
I tested the two units at 1000W/Sq. Meter in the sun (Calibration by Davis Weather station solar sensor) at 25 degC and 55 degC into a resistive 16 ohm load (VPmax/IPmax). Here are the results, spec. values in parenthesis:
Open Circuit Voltage 19.4 volts (21.18V)
P Max at 25deg C – 16.5 Watts (20 Watts)
P Max at 55deg C – 12.8 Watts (Not specified but usual operating temp)
Voltage at Pmax – 14.45 at 55 deg C (17.5 at 25 deg C)
Short Circuit Current at 55 deg C 1.0 Amps (1.33 Amps at 25 deg C)
I reported these resulte to Extreme Power Corp but there has been no comment. Two points to bear in mind. 1. – There is a tendancy to overspecify solar panel performance and 2. – Specifications are for performance at 25 deg C and no solar panel operates at this temperature.
The maximum power output under any load conditions that I can get from these panels when cool (immediately after exposing to the sun) and at 1000 W/Sq. is 16.6 Watts.
In operation do not expect more than about 14 Watts from these panels – if that is ok then the product, although misprepresented gets a pass.
John Beukers
2009.05.19
about 1 year ago
Review by William Yerazunis for 20 Watt Black Frame Mono-crystalline Solar Panel and Battery Charger
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The panel took about a week to arrive; the packing was “wierd” (bubble wrap wrapped
around the cardboard! ) but it was intact.
The frame is aluminium, however the backing is plastic and the front side is glass
(not Tefzel). The whole thing is sealed with copious amounts of silicone rubber.
The wierd part of this panel is that it’s _not_ exactly a 12-volt panel. In
full noonday sun, it puts out 20 volts open-circuit, at 1.03 amperes. This is
somewhat higher in voltage and lower in amperage than many would prefer; you will
need a charge controller at the very minimum as this _will_ cook a 12-volt
battery if used for a long time. Be sure your charge controller can handle
it- most charge controllers are rated for 16 to 18 volts input and this panel
puts out 20 volts or a bit more.
The panel comes with a pair of 6-foot wires (with something written on them
in Chinese), one red, one black, and permanently attached to a box centered in
the back of the panel. The other end of the wires go to a pair of alligator
clips, but as warned above, don’t just clip these onto a lead-acid battery
for long term use unless either the battery is really big or you have a
charge controller.
A downside: lead-acid batteries typically charge at 14 volts; any additional
voltage is wasted. So, this panel loses about 30% of the energy produced
if the charge controller is not an active (buck-boost) or maximum power point
tracking (MPPT) controller.
On the up side, the 20 volts open circuit stayed pretty solid even when
the sun went behind clouds; what dropped was the amperage (down to 0.2 amps
when the array was shadowed, down to 0.1 amp when the sun was _behind_ clouds.
But the voltage stayed up, which means that even on a cloudy day your panel
will get something into the battery, maybe only 10% of a good bright day but at
least something. I think (but am not sure) that this is because it’s a
monocrystalline panel.
about 1 year ago
Review by Alan Abbott for 20 Watt Black Frame Mono-crystalline Solar Panel and Battery Charger
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I like this product. It is simple. Out of the box in early January in northern Illinois I got 15-16 volts and 0.2 amps from this panel. That’s what I expected for this latitude and time of year. I’m relieved to have exactly what was advertised on the Amazon website. I just wanted a panel to charge up a 12V battery and see what I could run on it. By all descriptions this panel should work, we will see. For the money, I have not seen any other panel with a 20 watt peak output.
about 1 year ago
Review by G. Craig for 20 Watt Black Frame Mono-crystalline Solar Panel and Battery Charger
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I purchased four of these solar panels. Three of the panels worked correctly right out of the box. The fourth one did not work, and upon some inspection, I found that one of the solder joints to a wire was not soldered. The solar panel had no power output. I repaired the solder joint myself, and now the fourth solar panel works correctly. Overall, I am very satisfied with the way these panels function. In the sun, they perform as expected. I will probably buy more of these solar panels in the future and would recommend them to anyone wanting a compact, powerful solar panel.