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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    This doesn't look too bad... I'm not registering yet right now how to use the time as the x-axis, I recorded "human format" eg. hh:mm am/pm... wondering if I should use epoch or something... maybe turn it all into minutes or something... where you can see the increment Anyway here is a chart, I...
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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    With how easy it is to open up Google and research... For me I keep looking up the same thing over and over again like the order of an explode method (the string to be split, or the substring splitter), and others but long as you get the job done I guess. Anyway hopefully I get this figured out...
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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    It's a shame that I was actually a physics major and took E&M a few years back, I do.n't know, you don't use it forget it. Edit: I'm not sure which branch it falls inder actually. Compton scattering... Lorentz... The one cool lab was the bending of a stream of electrons going through a uniform...
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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    Meant to partially quote you but the delete backspace.... Anyway Thank you for the information I will take a closer look at this once I'm out of work. Yeah I'm after the bell curve, not sure if it makes sense to expect it. Thanks for the suggestion about the Albert Einstein paper, I can't...
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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    Yeah it's just peaked around 4.7V sun is really bright now at 10:30 AM central US time I'll give that a shot thanks for the suggestion
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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    Actually I may understand what you're saying. The sun is barely up and it's already almost 5V. I don't know if the power measurement would have a larger growth/gradient or if this is normal. My solar cell is orthogonal from the path of the sun rising, currently the sun I'd say is 15 degrees up...
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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    Sorry I don't understand? "a level of illumination" what do you mean by this? I'm just trying to get the voltage coming from the panel, it seems to be correct, with reference to a multimeter, measuring in the same spot/source eg. house light. At this time I'm not really trying to do anything...
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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    Nothing yet, I'm more on the "code" side coming in as a web developer. Right now I'm just trying to do a solar plotter, it just grabs samples from the day (voltage measured from panel) and then sends it to a website and creates a chart. But I'm trying to get more into the hard ware side and...
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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    So I completely misunderstood how this works... that was the draw from the ADC and does not concern the "current output" of the solar panel which needs a load...I don't know I think I'm okay.
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    Reading value from Solar Panel Cell, current peak concern

    I just setup a Raspberry Pi to read the voltage being produced from a Solar Panel using an MCP3008 and following Adafruit's tutorials. Anyway, one concern from the data sheet is that the ADC can operate max with 5V 500 micro amps. If I'm reading it right (and so far ADC is still working)...
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