Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #09916
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Dennison Bertram" dibst11+@pitt.edu
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:07:54 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Solar power question
While it would seem like this would be the ideal answer, things don't work
out as well as you might think. I forget the exact statistics, but you'll
probably just end up getting a lower voltage and current than expected.
Solarcells need to be properlly matched to be effective, otherwise energy
generated in a more effecient solarcell may be burned off in a less
effecient one. Someone posted a really good explination of this while back.
dennison
> Question: If you have one cell that produces stacks of current at a low
> voltage and another that produces heaps of voltage but with very little
> current. Is there some way to connect the two to get a good overall
> balance of votage can current?
>
> Elmo
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