Solar Energy

Last week the class had performed the Solar Cell Lab. Before we even started we had to get the supplies which consisted of One NXT adaptor, NXT with light sensor, Ruler, Colored film filters and a flashlight. We then started up lab view and started the lab. First we had to set up the flash light and the light sensor. The first run through was the light sensor had to be covered and no light had to be on it. After we set a colored film in front of the light sensor and set the flashlight a certain distance away which we did. When the light was running lab view was recording all the data so we could use it in Excel. We then later repeated that with two different color filters and at different distances. After we finished gathering the data we opened excel and imported the data. With the data we labeled the spreadsheet and made graphs out of them. Even though this may sound like we did the lab perfectly we did not perform the lab correctly at first. The thing we messed up on was when we had to get data from the sensor with no light. Lab view made us get data one by one. But before we started the one with the color filters we changed the lab view settings so it would get data like it was supposed to. This lab itself was very straight forward and if you do make a mistake you can mix it easily. 

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