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how long does it take for a solar panel to make one watt?

And I'm tring to decide if I should buy it. Let's say my house would need Megawatt per hour. That's 000 megawatts per hour. This solar panel produces 36 watts. I don't know how if that means per hour or what???

Answer:

Well, a 5 Watt solar panel running for an average of 2 hours per day, (there will be clouds), will put 5 * 2 = 80 Watt-hours into the battery. Assuming your inverter, (to convert 2 Volts D.C. to 20 Volts A.C.) runs at 00% efficiency, that will only supply power to run the grill for about 22 minutes a day. In the real world, neither the battery nor the inverter will work at 00%, to your actual heating time will be significantly less. If you get about 0 more of those 5 Watt solar panels, that would give you about 50 Watts * 2 hours or about 800 Watt-hours which would more than cover what you want to do. The next problem is getting an inverter which will handle a 700 Watt load. They can be found at auto supply houses and the larger truck stops. (They are popular with semi-drivers.) Note however, that a standard car battery will have to supply about 55 Amps, which means you will have to use some really heavy wire, like # 4 or # 6 welding cables to connect the inverter to the battery to minimize losses. P = 700 Watts E = 3 Volts I = 53.84 Amps R =
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There is no such thing as a megawatt per hour. Watts aren't a unit of energy, watts are a unit of power. Power is the rate at which energy is converted. Power is to energy as speed is to distance. Watt-hours or the famous kiloWatt-hour are units of energy. Also the Joule is the more scientific unit of energy.

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