Thursday, 6 February 2014

batteries - Powering 10watt light bulb for 24 hours using solar power


I am a total noobi to solar power and even electricity so I apologize if I am asking a silly question.


Imagine I have a 10 watt light bulb which I want to leave on for 24 hours a day. Will I just need a solar panel which can generate 10 watts? Or will I maybe need a 20 watt solar panel, so 10 watts is used to power the 10 watt light bulb and the other 10 watts gets stored into a battery to power the light bulb during the night for 12 hours?





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