Hello all,
I am attempting to get started with solar and want to do some simple, silly hobby projects, but I am having issues finding sites to help get me spun up. I am looking for solar panel suppliers (preferably exterior friendly) that hobbiest can use that put out ~3V and I guess something in the 50-100mA range (not sure yet).
I basically want to charge a battery during the day and run off of it at night. It is going to power a PIC (which will be sleeping 99% of the time) some discretes and some LEDs (blinking).
Looking around I cannot find a good cheap source of solar panels, nor easy to ramp up info on how best to charge a small battery (trying to find panels so I can work backwords on power budget, batteries, etc.).
Can anyone point me in a good direction to get started?
Thanks.
I am attempting to get started with solar and want to do some simple, silly hobby projects, but I am having issues finding sites to help get me spun up. I am looking for solar panel suppliers (preferably exterior friendly) that hobbiest can use that put out ~3V and I guess something in the 50-100mA range (not sure yet).
I basically want to charge a battery during the day and run off of it at night. It is going to power a PIC (which will be sleeping 99% of the time) some discretes and some LEDs (blinking).
Looking around I cannot find a good cheap source of solar panels, nor easy to ramp up info on how best to charge a small battery (trying to find panels so I can work backwords on power budget, batteries, etc.).
Can anyone point me in a good direction to get started?
Thanks.