[RE-wrenches] Low light panel

[Peter Parrish]

Hey Darryl,
 
I noticed a typo.
 
0.7 A @ 14 V is 10 watts. So 1 W in and 10 Watts out. Still a violation of
the conservation of energy by a factor of 10X.
 
- Peter
 
 

 
Peter T. Parrish, Ph.D., President
California Solar Engineering, Inc.
820 Cynthia Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90065
CA Lic. 854779, NABCEP Cert. 031806-26
peter.parrish at calsolareng.com  
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From: re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org
[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Darryl
Thayer
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:49 PM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Low light panel
 
Thanks Peter, I was trying to figure out how to translate from lumens, good
job
Darryl
 
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From: Peter Parrish <peter.parrish at calsolareng.com>
To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 5:40:44 PM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Low light panel

This is a pretty good example of how obscure the various "lighting"
variables are for even solar pros. 

I won't go into the gory details (and they are details of some depth, trust
me). So let's take the following shortcut.

A decent CFL puts out 60 lumens per watt of power consumed. So, in theory,
one could get 60 lumens from a tiny CFL drawing 1 watt of electrical power.

One watt of electrical power going into the CFL and 60 lumens out.

If you illuminated the PV module with those 60 lumens and it produced 0.7 A
@ 14 volts, that would be 20 watts of electricity.

Lo and behold! You got 20 Watts out from 1 Watt in.

You have just violated the "conservation of energy" by a factor of 20X.

- Peter



                                                    
Peter T. Parrish, Ph.D., President
California Solar Engineering, Inc.
820 Cynthia Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90065
CA Lic. 854779, NABCEP Cert. 031806-26
peter.parrish at calsolareng.com  
Ph 323-258-8883, Mobile 323-839-6108, Fax 323-258-8885


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[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Carl Adams
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:19 PM
To: RE-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org
Subject: [RE-wrenches] Low light panel

Hello Wrenches,

I'm looking for a panel which will provide
0.7A at 12-20V
with only a 60 lumen light source for the irradiance source

With REgards
Carl  Adams
SunRock Solar LLC
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