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Testing panels for solar camping in the field. We set up every solar panel in the same open area with full sun exposure to test their direct solar charging speed. We then hooked up every solar panel to an identical battery with a 20% charge. We then left each panel to charge its test battery to 80% to see how long it took.
To measure indirect solar charging speed, we repeated the direct solar charging speed test with a large white sheet suspended above the solar panels to simulate a cloudy day. With this simulated cloud cover in place, we then repeated the same tests from our direct solar charging speed metric to see how much energy and power each panel puts out.
Solar panels are rated by voltage and current (V and mA or A). Battery capacity is rated by milliampere-hours (mAh). 3.7v sounds like a LiPo battery. LiPo batteries have a nasty habit of bursting into flames when mistreated. That means you need a proper LiPo charge regulator. You will have to choose the solar panel to match the regulator.
If I hook up the first solar panel to the 3.7v battery, it would need to be above 4 volts to charge up, which is a lot of sun exposure. The second solar panel would not need the full sun (I think). Even at 5 volts and around 70mAh which is about half the sun needed, could input voltage to the battery.
Lets start and say the battery is at 3.0v of charge. The solar panel is not on direct sunlight and it is producing 4.5v @ ~ 430mAh-ish, "open" voltage. 80% Percent of that is were the solar panel has it's MPP = 3.6v @ ~ 344mAh-ish. 3.6v minus a diode's draw lets say 3.4v, that would definitively push some juice into the battery, right?
There is no need to worry about "maximizing exposure" to sunlight, because in full sun the panel theoretically has the capacity to charge a completely dead 3.7 V 1000 mAh battery in 2 hours. Solar panels are rated by voltage and current (V and mA or A). Battery capacity is rated by milliampere-hours (mAh). 3.7v sounds like a LiPo battery.
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