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Re: Hypothetical Solar Cell Situation

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Originally Posted by Astrokid248 View Post
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It's better than regular spam!

For your calculations, in one sun, a typical panel is around 10-13% efficient, and you get about 1 kW per square meter from the sun. Now, if you need 300 W in real time, that makes it almost impossible, but if the 300W is intermittent - meaning you sit and charge for a while, then expend the energy - then you have a potentially viable concern.

If I were designing a robot system that, say, autonomously chased deer from my back yard, I'd work to reduce my power budget before I tried to get 300 W from a solar panel.
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