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Solar panel test (preliminary)

I picked up the solar panel samples today, and did a super quick test in a parking lot. The results were somewhat disappointing. Open circuit voltage peaked at 6.8V, and short circuit current was around 620mA, which comes out to a little over 4W, and that’s a theoretical upper-bound. These are supposed to be 5W panels, so I’ll do some more testing, but I might need to find another source for solar panels unless I could get these guys to put out a couple hundred more milliamps…

  • 10 months ago
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Prior to starting BootstrapSolar, Ryo Chijiiwa was a software engineer at Yahoo! and Google, a full-time mountain man, and a disaster relief volunteer.

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