Solar Panel Salvaging

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Gu1tarister
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Solar Panel Salvaging

Post by Gu1tarister »

I want to take the solar panel from my spare 30x texas instrument calculator. Does anybody know some specs or possibly something it can be useful for?
Shakespeare
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Re: Solar Panel Salvaging

Post by Shakespeare »

Really, it's only useful for calculators. Those things have such low power that you're better off buying some decent panels.
what is this i don't even
timmeh87
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Re: Solar Panel Salvaging

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specs are probably like 2.4v 1mA at full power or something

this tiny thing from digikey has about a 5th the power of my initial estimate, but its kind of cool.
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSea ... =CLA290-ND" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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