OOPS. From your spelling, I assume that you can't comprehend that the voltage you are getting is the voltage from one cell unless they happen to be wired it series, so as long as just one cell is operating, you will be getting the same voltage. I also assume from your spelling that you would never think of putting black electrical or other opaque tape over the cells to prevent them from producing current rather than permanently disabling the cells.

They're like batteries, the voltage depends on the materials they are made of and then the cells are wired together in series to get the desired voltage. Damaging solar cells reduce the current but not the voltage. Get yourself a voltage regulator or use a voltage divider circuit.

First, you need to learn the difference between brake and break, since you clearly don't.

Second of all, I imagine all you are doing is measuring the open circuit voltage of the solar cell, which is nearly useless. The open circuit voltage will stay the same until you break it so badly it doesn't work at all.

You need to have a load on it and I would imagine then you would notice the output to go down as you degrade it.

>Thanks to the anal and idiotic comment< LOL! Your choice kid if you want to embarrass yourself.

Just fit a resistor to the circuit. They are very cheap. You will need to work out what value of resistor to fit though

Yeah... This guy sounded like a poindexterous prick to me too...

I want to reduce the voltage generation from a solar cell to probably half.

The cells I have are from radio shack. (see link below)

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12610003

What I want to do break one of the cells so it emits half its voltage, or a relative good amount less; in comparison to the good cell.

I have done Electroluminescence to test the cells, and I have effictively broken many parts of the cell. Problem is the cell is still generating a good amount of voltage (about 1 or 1.5V less than what it emitted originally)

What i want to know is how can i effectively brake the cell and reduce the voltage considerably as well.

This is for experimentation regarding imaging of damaged solar cells and their efficiency.

Thanks a lot