Solar Cell Battery. Light incident on the solar cell battery provides energy for currents to flow. Place one or two solar batteries in the simulation window. With the Select tool, you can move and wire them to other objects. You attach wires to the solar battery's two nodes, which are indicated by the yellow rectangles in Figures 1 and 2. |
Fig. 1 | Fig. 2
By default,a lamp powers the solar battery. The light of the lamp provides a voltage of 3.3 volts (Fig. 3). You can change the light source by clicking SUN (Fig. 4). Sunlight provides a voltage of 4.0 volts. You can also change light sources in the solar battery's Properties Box . |
Fig. 3 | Fig. 4
Note: The solar battery provides maximum currents of 170 mA under a lamp and 345 mA under the Sun. Circuit setups that attempt to draw more current than these maxima will result in reductions in the voltage put out by the solar battery.