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Subject:Re: Trickle charging battery with 1.8W solar panel = failure
From:Martin Jagersand
Date:Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:51:55 -0600

The package says the panel is not supposed to be mounted outside,
so it clearly has to be inside the windshield. This is a plain clear
windshield.

It is adjusted to face the sun.

Martin

On 3/26/07, Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I'm no expert, but does the polarized windshield cut the sun's
> rays???  Did you measure it out of
> the van in direct sunlight?  m
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> --- Martin Jagersand <jag@CS.UALBERTA.CA> wrote:
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> >I measured the output of the charger
> > at two times: 1pm under full Alberta sun: 40mA,  at 4pm 10mA.
> > That makes only 480mW and 120mW. Far from the advertized 1.8W.
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