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All I know is that I hooked a small panel up to my multimeter and if I put it in direct sun light it produced 5 volts and under indoor lighting conditions the v
by pmorici 16y ago
All I know is that I hooked a small panel up to my multimeter and if I put it in direct sun light it produced 5 volts and under indoor lighting conditions the voltage was around 3 volts. So I don't really know how they work but I know how to measure the voltage coming out of them.
- kragen 16y agoYou may be aware that direct sunlight is thousands of times more intense than indoor lighting conditions. Probably if you'd hooked up a resistive load to it while indoors, the measured voltage would have dropped to a fraction of a volt; and if you'd used an oscilloscope instead of a multimeter to measure the voltage, you would very likely have measured 5 volts. Or I could be wrong, of course.