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Message #12258
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: BUDSCOTT@aol.com
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:11:57 -0500
Subject: Solar panel solder
> I was tryin to solder my rat shack solar panel today when i discovered
that
> one of the non tinned sides was a real pain to solder. I eventually gave
up
> when i decided that anymore heat would destroy the panel. Whats the deal?
are
> these panels made some specific way so that it is impossible to solder to
the
> one side? I'm gonna use it to boost current for one of my photovores (even
> though my dad reamed me sayin, "its not gonna work, blah blah blah, you
gotta
> equilize the currents and light coming to the cell, blah blah blah,"
whether
> he's right or not i'm still pissed at him for being sucha jerk about it)
>
> -Spencer
>
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