A link would sure help here but basically you want to figure out how much
power that lamp consumes and how long per day you want it on. That will tell
you how much power, on average, you'll need to keep it running.Double that
number and you've got about the amount you'll need to generate on average,
triple it and you've got a ballpark for storage.
The figure out the most economical way to produce and store the power, finally
implement same and you're done...
-Curt
On Friday, August 28, 2020, 3:59:13 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel
<astrasfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a $49 Home Depot special lamp.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:55 PM Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Just way oversize your solar panel and battery pack.
How big a light are you looking to run? A 35ah wheelchair battery will run an
LED for a long time. You don't have to mount the battery and solar panel right
next to each other and neither of those needs to be near the light...
-Curt
On Friday, August 28, 2020, 3:48:24 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Thanks for all the input. Turns out that all my candidate mounting points
were high shaded. I may have to move.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:23 PM G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
> Simple, don't drive a stake in a shade area.. the sun obstruction will be
> obvious.
> The stakes with the shortest shade will have the most direct sun angle...
> long shade means you are in a low sun angle, not good for absorbing UV to
> make electric..
>
> Think, sun dial... when the sun is at high noon... directly overhead... how
> long is the sundial shadow?
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 9:59 AM Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 22:18:02 -0700 G Mann via Mercedes
> > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Go to Home Depot or any hardware store.
> > > Buy a bundle of 2 ft long grade stakes.
> > > Drive a grade stake in each location you think you want to mount the
> > > solar panel.
> > > Starting at sunrise.
> > > Every two hours, measure the shadow length of the grade stake, and the
> > > angle.
> > > Enter the reading on a notepad for use later using a pictograph drawing
> > > for each stake.
> > > At sunset, compare the day's readings.
> > >
> > > The path with greatest sun exposure will have the shortest shadows.
> >
> > I'm not sure this will work, Grant. If a stake is in shade, it will have
> > no shadow. Perhaps you mean the stake with the largest sum of shadow
> > lengths?
> >
> > I still think printing something like the graph I attached to my last
> > email on a transparency (without the background blue and green) is the
> > easiest. You simply walk around and immediately determine -- for the
> > whole year -- what will be obstructing the sun at each location.
> >
> >
> > Craig
> >
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