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Originally Posted by Markkyboy View Post
Oh, okay, seems I misunderstand how these things work. I see what you are saying now, I think. A quick peak now at discharging rate, shows it is around 115mA without solar panel.

I do have a multimeter. I'm no expert at using it. With a 20 watt lamp over the panel, I get an output of around 5mA (again I maybe reading this wrong), or do I add a zero and it becomes 50mA?
My apologies for being a dickhead where this is concerned, I did all this at school, many. many, years ago and have forgotten ALL OF IT!
Thank you for your help so far
The value depends on which scale the multimeter is. For example my multimeter has mA and ľA and A. There's 1000 mA in one A etc. (see: http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?ma...08wire_LRG.jpg This is very basic stuff