Saturday, February 27, 2010

Can you put paint and oil pastels on solar panels?

im trying to do a science project and im trying to incorporate art in it, so can u paint (regular acryllic NO WATER) and put oil pastels on solar panels? would it ';blow up'; basically, is it dangerous? any pre-cautions, so can i????Can you put paint and oil pastels on solar panels?
It depends on how much of the panel you cover. If you paint a tiny little corner, then you will reduce the output by a little. But if you paint straight across the panel, even a small strip, it will effectively shut off the whole panel. Any shading of the panel is bad, shading across multiple cells is worse.Can you put paint and oil pastels on solar panels?
It would be perfectly safe.





However, the efficiency of the solar panels would be impaired. Considerably I would think.
not dangerous, but the panel would no longer work.





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