On 11/08/14 11:04, Bert Coules wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:

Most solar stuff doesn't run directly off sunlight these days. They
have rechargeable AA batteries which are charged by the sun, then used
to run the lights/pump/whatever.

One of the models I've been looking at has this in its description (bad
English and all):

"The water pump will not working without sunlight, it will restart
within three seconds once the sunlight re-appear."

Old technology, then?

If you can get one where the solar cell is on a separate cable, that
can be placed in direct sunlight.

Annoyingly, that same model is like that: http://tinyurl.com/n4bcgw8

Thanks, Dave.

Bert

For occasional uncritical duties like water pumping no point in a
battery at all.



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