EEVblog #48 – Solar Power Hope

December 4th, 2009 | by cmotel |

Can solar power hope beat out the engineering reality for Dave’s latest project? Was Doc Brown right? IXYS Solar Cell Datasheet: ixdev.ixys.com

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  1. 6 Responses to “EEVblog #48 – Solar Power Hope”

  2. By EEVblog on Dec 4, 2009 | Reply

    Digikey are out of stock :(

  3. By scancool on Dec 4, 2009 | Reply

    why don’t you run your LCD with an arc reactor

  4. By joe72205 on Dec 4, 2009 | Reply

    Perhaps 25% of the compact flourescent lamps I have purchased recently have failed within a couple of months.

    Considering how much energy must go into manufacturing one, I would like to know at what lifetime the “energy saved versus normal bulb” crosses the “energy consumed to make it versus normal bulb”….

    I suspect it’s pretty far out meaning these only make sense for long-burning applications, but they also have to stay cool, or else they fail. A difficult combination.

  5. By ntjbjhq on Dec 4, 2009 | Reply

    Show more of your project! Take us along the journey as you’ve started too with the solar idea. So whats your next step?

  6. By EEVblog on Dec 4, 2009 | Reply

    Incandescent bulbs are now BANNED in Australia! Oh boy, I feel a rant coming on!

  7. By Vlakpage on Dec 4, 2009 | Reply

    I think part of the problem is also that spectrum of fluerescent tubes (and LEDs) isn’t good for Si cells. They like more the infrared part, so it should work better under incandescent sources.

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