After putting a V meter on each side of it,
this after I resoldered the crappy job done on
the power out wire! It was using power that should be for the battery.
No, I cut the plug off about 20 min after I bought
the panel.
Was just wondering about "whats inside"?
It's not keeping a very good charge on an old low power 12 VDC cycle type bat. But, being it gets to work,
7 days a week and I only get out there a couple times maybe for a total of 6-8 hours. And I only run about 8watt bulbs for maybe half that time.
I'll add in some better bat's and panels when I get
shed/shop finished rebuilding.
I also have been wondering about what up with the solar yard lights I've looked around insides of to many times, I've only got one that has two AA's and two or three with only one AA.
I'm planning on using the panel at least out of the one with two AA's and the batteries to "solar power up" a little fake security camera that uses two AA's.("HubbCam detective" older version that didn't have a switch and used two not three AA's),{Mine has switches I've added for power and LED, On/Off}
Maybe I'll use the led/photo sensor board also to have the blinking red LED on the fakey to only come on at night.
I like the motion activated fakey but am not going to keep replacing the AA's.
I just added a changable lens to it so now I can hide a real camera in it.
I should just also add a power plug for being able to power from bank and also power the real camera.
So when I set at shed it will be not drawing for it's own bat's.
Should just get a couple more.
Way to much fun when setting up somebody to sit down and later see something is looking at them!, LOL
People are so easy.