Recent content by Benjamin Spice

perfect, thanks a lot for your help. That cleared it up for me, really appreciated :)

Yeah essentially running a heating resistor straight from a panel. OK i think i have a better understanding of it now, just because an element has a rating of 400W, it doesn't mean that a 100W panel can't power it, more that it will only operate at what is available. Would that mean the resistor...

Homework Statement For an engineering assessment (first year with no electrical background), we are using a solar panel to power an element for a distillation system. we have calculated our heat energy output requirement that we need from our heating element as being 800 J/s. For simplicity we...