... ...And why would you put solar panels indoors to be powered by a CFL,when they could be outdoors being powered by the sun-for a far higher power return.
Solar panels were designed for sunlight, true, but they do exist on house rooftops in many, many communities. I'm looking for the greatest efficiency indoors. This was going to be a part of a preliminary low budget prototype system that starts out small and is expandable. I don't have the money or freedom to go with expensive items like an inverter. LED's are no good to use with a solar panel(unless infrared) and CFL's arnt much better.
Incandescents give more voltage than fluorescents, but use at least twice the power. LEDs use 1/3 the power of filament bulbs, but are small and expensive and can't take much in the way of power surges or spikes. I needed something easy and can be set up in my apartment on a budget. The losses in your system-the solar panels,the CFL and LED's and the inverter.
(Look at the first part of this post; I know this but solar arrays are in use, anyway.) I was going to add other types of input power and then try to interface the voltage/current/frequency differences in order to research the feasibility of an integrated system. But that's a ways down the road. Reedit, 25 Jun '13: Further described my assertions and spell checked the text. --Lee
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