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Message #01245
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Robert McIntosh robmc@acay.com.au
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 15:23:45 +1100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Trimmable solar cells (?)
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Richard Caudle wrote:
> Hello all! Is there anyone who knows if there are solar cells that
> can be cut to shape (i.e. amorphous cells, etc.)? My next project
> calls for some unusually shaped cells. Richard Caudle
> richard@cqc.com
> rwcaudle@hpamonon.com
> Frankendaddy (ICQ#20105579)
> _________________________ "Guardians of The Sacred Words: Nee, Ptang,
> and Neewhon."
Cutting them doesn't matter it's connecting to them that would be the
problem. They are just sandwiches whose area determines current. The
voltage is determined by the material but is close to .5 a volt.
Rob
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Richard Caudle wrote:
Hello
all! Is
there anyone who knows if there are solar cells that can be cut to shape
(i.e. amorphous cells, etc.)? My next project calls for some unusually
shaped cells. Richard
Caudle
richard@cqc.com
rwcaudle@hpamonon.com
Frankendaddy
(ICQ#20105579)
_________________________ "Guardians
of The Sacred Words: Nee, Ptang, and Neewhon."
Cutting them doesn't matter it's connecting to them that would be
the problem. They are just sandwiches whose area determines current.
The voltage is determined by the material but is close to .5 a volt.
Rob
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1246 Wed, 3 Mar 1999 23:41:40 EST [alt-beam] Re: Trimmable solar cells (?) robmc@acay.com.au, beam@corp.sgi.com Bumper314@aol.com In a message dated 3/3/99 9:36:20 PM Mountain Standard Time, robmc@acay.com.au
writes:
>
> Cutting them doesn't matter it's connecting to them that would be the
> problem. They are just sandwiches whose area determines current. The
> voltage is determined by the material but is close to .5 a volt.
>
> Rob
>
>
Wow, so what if you buy a calculator cell in half, does that half that current
of half the voltage? Same for the Panasonic cells from Solarbotics?
Steve
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