Solar Power Meter

Ronald Said:

How is it possible to hook solar power to your meter, with out causing a direct short?

We Answered:

Buried in that link is the answer to your question.

The DC voltage generated by the solar array is converted to AC, at the voltage supplied by the electric utility. The inverter senses the phase of the incoming power, and matches this phase before allowing the utility AC and the AC from the solar system to connect.

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Victor Said:

How many watts of power are generated by a square meter solar panel?

We Answered:

The sun produces about 1000 watts per square meter. Solar panels are about twenty percent efficient.

This panel produces 120 watts and is 0.66 square meters, which is 180 watts per square meter.

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Micheal Said:

Pyranometer vs Solar Power Meter vs Solar Module Analyzer?

We Answered:

Howdy

... hehe this is something I have thought about too :)
This resource has helped a lot when i had done studies and reaserach about: solar energy, solar power and energy.

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I hope that gets you started :-)
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Frank Said:

using solar power indoors? colder, darker or a faster spinning meter?

We Answered:

A. yes the room will be slightly darker in exactly the same way as a very dark painted room is darker than a light painted room.
Less light reflects around a dark room than a light room and you are introducing more dark areas to the room.


B.The room will not become colder as you are not removing heat from that room but containing it within the room.

If the solar panel is in the room and you took the electricity outside to a heater, this would in fact be a two part air conditioner and in this case the room would tend to cool.



C.You will not draw more power from a bulb in any way, it is giving out [say ] 100 Watts and the only way you will change that is to up the voltage applied to that bulb.

What you are trying to summise is that you can 'suck' more light from a bulb, this does NOT happen.

I would suggest that strange as it may seem, taking sunlight from the desert and using the electricity to melt ice at the poles WOULD tend to cool the desert, but the actual amount of cooling would be so small as to be unmeasurable.
Yes the effect would be there.
If you melt ice at the poles , you must have got the heat from somewhere. That heat must have come from the desert.
Once again a two part air con machine is what that would be.


Basically , if you take energy from one place to heat another place you are COOLING the first place.

Hope that all helps. [hope you can make sense of my rambling]

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