Late this few weeks I’ve been hunting and finding Solar Panels which can be use to power up various items. Among the Solar Panel that I’ve found is listed below.
1. 14 volt panel – obtained from a hobby shop
2. 4.5 volt panel – scrapped from a damaged garden light
3. 2 volt panel – scrapped from some car accessories
Why would I need solar panel for?
Just to satisfy my hobby in electronics. The place where i’m staying (Alor Setar, Malaysia) always receives equal amount of sunshine, (near the equator), except for monsoon season of course. So I’m thinking that, it’s kinda shame if I let it waste.
Among of my plans would involve of hooking up one of these panels with a regular car battery and inverter to power up my backyard lamp and various electronic projects that depends on solar power. I’m looking for any good schematic to aiding me, not too complex, but good enough for a beginner.
I would appreciate any of your suggestions, btw.
Thanks!
nice plan hafiz.
this is the simple schematic that ive found
http://alpha1.infim.ro/rrp/2007_59_1/art07Azooz.pdf
More complicated circuit
http://www.xs4all.nl/~odu/solar.html
to date, solar panels which generate more than 100Watts are still expensive but hopefully they are getting cheaper each day ::