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Author Topic: Inspecting & Checking Solar Cell Marin Zorica Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 671 From: Biograd na Moru, Croatia Registered: May 2003 posted 02-23-2006 02:59 PM                     How we can inspect is it solar cell good with universal ohmmeter? Is it like photodiode or? Best way is to conect to processor and hear, but if we have cell how to test it?  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-23-2006 06:36 PM                     With a good amount of light on the cell and no load across it, it should put out about 0.5 volts. This is, of course, not the whole story. Next try it in the projector.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 02-28-2006 07:56 AM                        I check them with a microphone input and old-style fluorescent light. Darkness equals silence; light equals hum. Good quick check. Louis  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 02-28-2006 10:49 AM                       Checking stereo cells can be tricky as it is hard to get a valid test without some sort of low impedance load on channel. For instance, if the common lead is broken somewhere you end up with what appears to be a monaural cell with the left or right being the minus and the other the plus. These photons are mighty elusive creatures and easily jump the barrier between the left and right cell.  |  IP: Logged Marin Zorica Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 671 From: Biograd na Moru, Croatia Registered: May 2003 posted 02-28-2006 04:56 PM                     On one machine cell's are little broken (somebody take them hard out) does that effect on sound? I know it is but can still be work? Because i think that system is working!  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-07-2006 08:40 AM                     The cell isn't shorted out or anything if it gets chipped. The cell should be very close to the film such that the light hitting it through the film should still be slit shaped and fairly sharply focussed - or you get nasty crosstalk. So... if there's a chip knocked off the corner of the cell but the area that the light hits is still good then there should be no problem. If the cell is cracked through or chipped into where the light hits then you'll have reduced level on the chipped/cracked side.  |  IP: Logged

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