In general, any improvement you made to the intensity of light falling on the cell would improve the output. I'd think that simply putting a better PV cell in would be a better upgrade…some of the cheap garden lights I see only have narrow little strips of PV material on the top. Lots of wasted surface area there.
-Pete
On Apr 11, 2012, at 1:11 AM, William Chops Westfield wrote:
> So my home has a lot of trees, meaning that any particular location gets little to no direct sunlight, though it may have a view of "open sky") and of course gets overall daylight illumination that is considerably brighter than inside illumination.
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> My question is whether reflectors are of any use in "concentrating" indirect light so as to convince conventional solar cells to have a greater output for charging the batteries that they're connected to? Picture one of those cheap "solar garden lights" with a parabolic "thing" around the otherwise pitiful solar cells. (or perhaps in addition to a SC upgrade.) Will it improve things?
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> Thanks
> Bill W
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