If I had a van with let’s say 600w of solar panels on the roof and I park it under those crazy bright parking lot lights overnight would I see any meaningful charge on my batteries?
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No. Your eyes are tricking you because they’re so good at adjusting to different light levels. Full sunlight is around 1000W per square meter. A brightly illuminated parking lot is around 1-2W per square meter. So your 600W of solar panels will produce maybe 0.6W-1.2W. You’d need 5 times as many panels just to slow-charge a phone.
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