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DIY Solar Garden Light Hack – Solar Battery Charger
Make a solar battery charger using some dollar store path lights. Using 4 cheap dollar store garden lights you can make a very good solar AA or AAA battery charger for one or two batteries. This is a simple solar garden light hack which gives you a decent solar charger worth about if you were to buy it retail. www.thediyworld.com
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Nice job Techman, you kept it simple with clear directions for all steps and explained how? it all works and as well, the demonstration went with precision. How did someone manage to not like this. Here’s ya an extra thumbs up, thanks for a great job.
Any rectifier or schottky diode will do. A 1n4007 or 1n4001 will work. The Radio Shack part #? is 276-1653 for a 25 pack.
I picked up a case of these, 25 in a case, at a dollar each from the 99 Cents store here in California. Im? curious if you can give any info on the diode you used. perhaps a part number? If its a Radio Shack part I would appreciate the part number to be more accurate to your video. Thanks in advance.
Thank you for the comments. Hope it works well for you. Let me know. You can send? pics on thediyworld forum.
Excellent video. I was looking for little solar panels and couldn’t find a source then it occurred to? me that I have some solar garden lights that aren’t performing well. Come to think of it, I have a larger one sitting in my screen porch (spotlight that never quite worked). I’m going to give this a try!
I have a general idea of the solar cells capacities because of the original batteries that came with them. Mine, for example, were 120 mAH batteries. That gives me about 120 mAH per day of charge per cell. 5 cells gives me about 600 mAH per day of charge. You can also just measure them from time to time. A rechargeable nicad is about 1.2 volts charged. When I get the to about 1.3? then I pull them off the charger.
When do? you check to see if the batteries have fully charged? I really like the stuff you have posted.
Now that is a great idea.?
why not make it with? three charging bays?
Thanks. You can actually use a USB cable to charge a normal cell phone. All you need to do is set up the solar cells to put out 5 volts. You can have various voltages from the same solar? cells depending on how you hook them up.
It is the best thing i Ever saw so like you need a phone on an island the phone runs AA batteries e.g and u charge it by this that dosnt need electricity just the sun
i live in preston near to uclan university and they have a solar power charger it says how much energy it has and it has about 30.000 thousand? or 300,000 thousand ;()
My favorite? tool
Thanks for the vid – that all in one tool got a workout!
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Thanks!?
Between the? solar cells and the batteries, on the positive wire.
Where? does the diode get connected to? Sorry, I couldn’t see where you hooked it up.
No problem, please join thediyworld forum? and I will be happy to help you out there.
Hi? can u send me the schematics please josephscruggs42@Gmail.com
Can u send me diagram on? how to put it togethet
A Schottky diode would be best due to a lower voltage drop, but almost any diode (non zener) will work in this case? because it is only blocking the voltage from flowing out of the batteries and into the solar cells when a cloud passes over.
What kind? of doide u use