| A Postage Stamp of Sunlight
A dowel shaft can be attached to the motor shaft with a piece of tubing slid onto either a red motor shaft bushing or the motor pulley (put on backwards).
Consider that overall these solar panels are about 12-1/2% efficient, converting only about 1/8 of the total received solar energy into electricity. If the solar panels were 100% efficient, you would need a panel only 1/8 this size to produce the energy you feel in your hand. That is to say, the energy you feel in your hand is the energy in a postage stamp of sunlight. |