How much candle lights is required to operate a 205 watt solar panel?
The intensity of direct sun is about 0,000 foot-candles. It would not be practical to light that many standard candles and put them foot away from the panel, but you could supply that intensity with electric lighting. That's in fact how they establish the power ratings of a given panel; they have a rig that provides a standard test condition of sun.
That's hard to tell. A solar panel produces somewhere between 7 and 0W per square foot under sunlight exposure. You should calculate the light intensity of sunlight, and then calculate the light intensity of a candle (You'll have to look that up in some physics book or the internet) and then just multiply the number of candles until you match the intensity of sunlight. Realistically, you would need so many candles that you wouldn't be able to fit them in front of the solar panels, assuming you don't end up with a huge fireball.
