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📌Order link for 60 W solar panel (in the clip) LAZADA 👉 https://s.lazada.co.th/l.bKtk SHOPEE 👉 https://shope.ee/4fLpZjQRVo Hello, welcome everyone to the ZimZimDIY channel. Today I have the opportunity to start entering the industry of renewable energy. Or many people may call it clean energy. So I would like to start generating my own electricity. What I am looking at is electrical energy from solar panels. The next question is, what size panel should I start with? Of course, for the beginning, I am still a beginner. I will have to use a small panel first. I have 2 questions for myself as follows: 1. I want the output voltage to be more than 12V to be connected to various devices. And if the voltage is more than 14.6V, it will be even better. Because it will be able to charge a 12V lithium phosphate battery system. To store energy for use at night and 2. The output current, I want it to be more than 2A or more, because if the amps are lower than this, I feel that it will not be enough for use. So I decided to choose this panel. It is a 60W POLY solar panel. They say it has a 10-year warranty. The packaging is considered to be quite good bubble wrap. The size is about 59 cm high, about 67 cm wide, and the back is like this. There will be a positive and negative terminal. The head is an MC4 type, 2 wires. And the name page says that it can produce a maximum voltage of about 18.1 volts and a maximum current of 3.32 A. But it will be a test condition in its best conditions. But for actual use, we will have to put the solar panel out in the sun and measure it again. Here, I will try to measure the voltage roughly using a multimeter to see how much voltage is output. Here it is, about 24V, a little over 23V at 9:30 a.m., but it will be floating voltage if connected to the load. The voltage will drop to 5-6 V. The current can be measured by shorting the circuit like this. You can read the value from the ammeter or use a clamp meter. The current is about 1.66. After that, I came back to measure the voltage again at around 1:00 PM. The result is that the measured voltage is close to the voltage this morning, which is about 23 volts. The measured current is about 2 amps. But if I lift the panel up at an angle to receive sunlight, the current will increase by more than 2.5 A. I will test it by connecting it to a 12V 25W incandescent light bulb. Here, the light bulb is bright. And if you measure the voltage, the voltage will drop to about 17V. The current will flow at about 2.3 A. The voltage and current at this level can actually be applied to a variety of loads. In the next episode, we will see how this 60W panel can use this energy. How can it be used? Stay tuned for EP2. For friends who have experience using these small panels before and have used them to their full potential, you can comment under this clip. I will use it as a guideline and other friends who are looking for solar panels will get new ideas and experiences. For this clip, I will explain this much. If you are interested in this panel, I will leave the link under this clip. Thank you to all friends who have watched.