Piezo and solar charge controller

[Alfredo722]

Can I coax a solar charge controller to accept output from 16 piezo transducers, (20mm buzzer type disk piezo elements). The charge controller has an LCD display with readouts for voltage and amps.

 

[anorlunda]

Sure. Remember two things though. Solar charge controlers work with DC. Second, the power output of a single transducer is tiny. You might need tens of thousands of them to match a solar panel.

The Wikipedia article on energy harvesting may be interesting to you. It discuses piezioelectricity as well as other methods.