To me this question is rather like asking, should I leave an unused alkaline battery in open or short circuit?
Dou you mean IR radiation like a LED (not just the blackbody radiation due to surface temperature)?
I'm not convinced that when no current is drawn 100% of the light that would otherwise provide electric power actually gets absorbed by the panel and converted into heat rather than reflected.
I'm not convinced that when no current is drawn 100% of the light that would otherwise provide electric power actually gets absorbed by the panel and converted into heat rather than reflected.
Have you seen solar panels get brighter when you reduce the electric load?
I haven't.
I don't see IR.
I don't see IR.
Why do you think that solar cells generate electricity primarily from IR?
We must be talking about two different things. I was talking about current creating light. Someone said they couldn't see it and I was explaining why.
We must be talking about two different things. I was talking about current creating light. Someone said they couldn't see it and I was explaining why.
No, waper suggested that light that under load would be converted to electricity gets reflected under reduced load, and you suggested that the reason why one wouldn't see the increased brightness from the reflection would be because that light would be in the infrared, i.e., that solar cells convert primarily IR to electricity.
No, waper suggested that light that under load would be converted to electricity gets reflected under reduced load, and you suggested that the reason why one wouldn't see the increased brightness from the reflection would be because that light would be in the infrared, i.e., that solar cells convert primarily IR to electricity.
No, I never said that.
No, waper suggested that light that under load would be converted to electricity gets reflected under reduced load, and you suggested that the reason why one wouldn't see the increased brightness from the reflection would be because that light would be in the infrared, i.e., that solar cells convert primarily IR to electricity.
No, I never said that.
So ... what did you say, then? And no, I don't mean a quote of what you said.
No, waper suggested that light that under load would be converted to electricity gets reflected under reduced load, and you suggested that the reason why one wouldn't see the increased brightness from the reflection would be because that light would be in the infrared, i.e., that solar cells convert primarily IR to electricity.
No, I never said that.
So ... what did you say, then? And no, I don't mean a quote of what you said.
I'll tell you how a person with an engineering or physics background interprets what he said. All objects radiate energy, with a spectrum similar to a black body, but modified slightly by variations in spectral emissivity.
There is no reason to get into a feud about something that is just the basic way the world works.