I am looking to make a demonstration using a large amorphous solar panel that I have lying around. I want to keep this as simple as possible. The solar panel that I have is a 96 Watt 12V solar panel. Thanks for any help or suggestions you can give me.
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Good for you that light bulbs aren’t picky, they will run on AC or DC power, so you don’t need a converter. But to make it viable, you will need a step up transformer to convert 12v to somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 to 120 Volts for a regular bulb, Or you would have to use a 12 volt bulb if you want to avoid the transformer altogether, but that would be less impressive. Lucky that a bulb doesn’t need exact voltages either. All you need is enough to light the bulb. OR, if you want to use an LED, you could avoid the transformer all together, but you’d probably need alot of LED’s to make the demonstration a little more successful.