100w Solar Panel
July 7th, 2010
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If a Solar Panel creates 100 watts does it mean 100w a day, hour, or sec?
Does this mean 100 watts, would = 500 Watts in 5 Sec?
Does this mean a 100 watts soloar panel, would = 6,000 Watts in 60 sec?
A watt is a unit of power, which represents one joule per second. This means a watt is already a rate of energy per unit of time. So a 100 Watt Solar Panel produces 100 watts, meaning 100 joules per second.
Energy can also be measured in kilowatt hours, which represents the production of 1000 watts for 1 hour. So over the course of an hour, this panel would produce 0.1 Kilowatt Hours of energy, or 360,000 Joules.