all right you remember the video I did have charge batteries using solar garden
lights I guess it's about a year ago or so I did this
well John solar had an idea of removing the solar panels and the battery and
bypassing the switch that turns it on and off and that's a good idea so I've
done that with two of them and what I have here is two batteries that are
completely dead they're the rechargeable batteries that were originally in this
now I'm cutting it on on and I've bypassed everything I just eliminated
the circuit board I hope I didn't screw up doing that but so what I'm gonna do
let's put these batteries in here
there's a flashlight now this is uh let's see what time all right it's
quarter to 9:00 in the morning I'm gonna give this Oh
it's at the noon about four Molina's in the Sun all day
this afternoon about forum come in take the batteries up put them in the
flashlights and we'll see if this if this works that this works about these
for like a buck and a half wouldn't that be nice to have a horrible
and convenient means of charging double-a batteries for a buck and a half
a battery indefinitely forever I mean these things you know my last 20 years
or so I don't know what's what's the lifespan on solar panels you know all
right I'm gonna go stick this in the Sun and I'll see you back here at four
o'clock all right it's a quarter to two that's five hours and then things
sitting out there in the Sun let's go grab them and and see see if they're
gonna work
here's flashlights
they feel kind of warm but probably because they're that it's it not the Sun
okay that's pretty doggone cool thanks John solar that's a good idea
I'm fixing to take these other two apart and mount them here I'm going to do a
nicer job we'll make it a nicer box this is just temporary to see if this worked
it does work so I'm gonna make something nice up I may even buy a few more of
these solar garden lights one more it's got them on sale right now so they can
make room for their happy holidays you're not allowed to say Christmas so
I'll show you what I got when I when I get something nice fixed up may not be
today but I'll find something oh yeah before I forget the link to John solar
will be down here somewhere I'll put a link to his I'll put a link directly to
the video where he was talking about that because this is his idea and I
don't want to please your eyes so what yeah I'll put a link down there I didn't
well I wanted to say that before I forgot are you helping me today well I
made it this is a prototype and it's ugly but I just really wanted to see if
this was possible and I did shrink tube the wires because the wires the solder
connections are really delicate you got to be careful and these particular
garden lights solar lights they were just super difficult to get apart
without breaking stuff I had a fourth one that I ended up breaking so I'm
gonna I'm gonna leave this out here one more time today I've got some chargeable
the rechargeable batteries with a much higher amp rating
and I'm going to test this one more time now I do not have a diode in there that
prevents the electricity from flowing out of the batteries back through the
solar panels it a diode would prevent them from discharging when the Sun Goes
Down so I'll have to be diligent and remembering to bring this in on when the
Sun Goes Down or you know when clouds go over and I plan on getting some more
solar lights several more and making a really nice one with nice soldered
connections and diode in there that will prevent backflow electrical backflow
from the batteries so I'm going to put this video up and this is just one more
little project that I plan on actually doing a little better you know when I
started my rocket stoves I sort of tweaked and tuned as I made them and I'm
real happy with the last couple that I made they work great and I'm gonna do
the same to this I'll figure out a way to make this not sure to look at easier
to use and I'm sure I can find online the type of I think it's called a
rectifier some type of diode that prevents electricity from flowing out of
the batteries I'll do the research on that thanks for watching