Solar Power Science Project?
so I was wanting to do a science project for high school and show how I can power my computer off solar power and need some help.
I saw this online http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/echem/echem3.html and was wondering if I could make several of these things to charge a 12 volt deep cycle battery (from a trolling motor off a boat) than from the battery to a inverter to power a computer.
I’m not the smartest person with electricity if anyone could help me out that would be great
The device you showed would not power anything. It would take months of storing power to run your computer a few hours. Then you’d have to wait another few months to charge the batteries again.
Read the article. It would take acres of these to power a house.
You can do that. You have to consider the power requirements of the computer. You will have lots of down-time while the batteries charge. Most solar cells aren’t big enough to provide that much power continuously. Unless you want your roof covered, count on down-time. You might also want something like a UPS. That way, when your batteries fail you have time to save your work. Otherwise you need circuitry to detect when the batteries are failing.