In general, any improvement you made to the intensity of light falling on t=
he cell would improve the output. I'd think that simply putting a better PV=
 cell in would be a better upgrade=85some of the cheap garden lights I see =
only have narrow little strips of PV material on the top. Lots of wasted su=
rface area there.

-Pete

On Apr 11, 2012, at 1:11 AM, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> So my home has a lot of trees, meaning that any particular location gets =
little to no direct sunlight, though it may have a view of "open sky") and =
of course gets overall daylight illumination that is considerably brighter =
than inside illumination.
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> My question is whether reflectors are of any use in "concentrating" indir=
ect light so as to convince conventional solar cells to have a greater outp=
ut for charging the batteries that they're connected to?  Picture one of th=
ose cheap "solar garden lights" with a parabolic "thing" around the otherwi=
se pitiful solar cells.  (or perhaps in addition to a SC upgrade.)  Will it=
 improve things?
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> Thanks
> Bill W
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