can you get more energy from a solar panel

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Nov 12, 2004 07:41 pm

I was wondering if you can place a magnifing sheet over a solar panel to boost its sun input and would it put out moor power. thanks

Thomas Allen Schmidt

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Nov 20, 2004 02:59 pm

Re: can you get more energy from a solar panel

LAST EDITED ON Nov-25-04 AT 10:26 AM (EST)

What would happen is the PV cell temperature would get hotter causing the output voltage to drop and if left this way ruin the module.
A better approach would be to find a way to super cool the cell which would drive its voltage up without harming the module.
Wattsun has created a PV concentrator module that use's; Freznell lense's, speacial PV cells the size of a dime, and large heat sinks. The whole thing has to track the Sun very closely though.
http://www.wattsun.com
I was wrong. Wattsun created the tracking system for the concentrator PV array. It was actually Midway Labs Inc. that produced the Array but try as I did I could not find a web site. Instead I did find this one.
http://www.entechsolar.com/

Mi Khine

1 Posts

Aug 9, 2005 10:44 pm

Re: can you get more energy from a solar panel

>LAST EDITED ON Nov-25-04 AT 10:26 AM (EST)LAST
>EDITED ON Nov-25-04 AT 10:26 AM (EST)
>
>What would happen is the PV cell
>temperature would get hotter causing the
>output voltage to drop and if
>left this way ruin the module.
>A better approach would be to
>find a way to super cool
>the cell which would drive its
>voltage up without harming the module.
>Wattsun has created a PV concentrator
>module that use's; Freznell lense's, speacial
>PV cells the size of a
>dime, and large heat sinks. The
>whole thing has to track the
>Sun very closely though. http://www.wattsun.com I
>was wrong. Wattsun created the tracking
>system for the concentrator PV array.
>It was actually Midway Labs Inc.
>that produced the Array but try
>as I did I could
>not find a web site. Instead
>I did find this one. http://www.entechsolar.com/
>
>

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