Abby Smith
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Hello everyone,
Just a quick background about myself, I'm 20 years old, i go to UW and I live in a trailer with 1 other girl bc housing is expensive here lol. For the most part, I love it because I'm outdoors type of person, and I come from utah, so i'm not super into material things. Currently, im on my 2nd year as an engineering student.
I watched some videos of Wil from youtube and based on that, I purchased 4 newpowa panels, but they looked a bit different and I can't come close to generating more than 240 to 250 watts max on a sunny cold day facing the sun. I read a bit about solar panels, and i learned that typically they are 36 solar cells connected in series to generate the necessary voltage to be useful, however, the panels are igot are more like 72 cells. It looks like they connected 2 of them in series to get the voltages, but why are they so different than the ones wil tested? Why do they generate so much less energy? I'm really really disappointed tbh.
Just a quick background about myself, I'm 20 years old, i go to UW and I live in a trailer with 1 other girl bc housing is expensive here lol. For the most part, I love it because I'm outdoors type of person, and I come from utah, so i'm not super into material things. Currently, im on my 2nd year as an engineering student.
I watched some videos of Wil from youtube and based on that, I purchased 4 newpowa panels, but they looked a bit different and I can't come close to generating more than 240 to 250 watts max on a sunny cold day facing the sun. I read a bit about solar panels, and i learned that typically they are 36 solar cells connected in series to generate the necessary voltage to be useful, however, the panels are igot are more like 72 cells. It looks like they connected 2 of them in series to get the voltages, but why are they so different than the ones wil tested? Why do they generate so much less energy? I'm really really disappointed tbh.
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