I discover that solar cell powered calculator can only work when there’s presence of sun light but not fluorescent light, why? Fluorescent light is also light, why can’t it produce current? And can solar cell work properly when they receive light from fire?
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Solar cells use the UV rays from the sun and those are not available from fire or fluorescent lamps
Not all light is the same. The cells will only work with a certain wavelength, or range of wavelengths, of light. Sunlight contains most visible, and some invisible light, whereas fluorescent lights do not; your fluorescent lights clearly don’t produce the wavelength of light needed to get power from your solar cell, but the fire (or some other artifical light source) might, so try it.