Today, I went to Soils Park with my solar panel to try it out in the real world. At first, it worked great and was charging just fine. But once the sun started going down, the light got weaker, so I had to move the panel to a higher spot to catch whatever sunlight was left.
What surprised me the most was this — even after the sun had gone down and it looked totally dark to my eyes, the panel was still charging, just really, really slowly. I guess there’s still a tiny bit of light out there that we humans can’t see, but the panel can pick up on it. That was honestly mind-blowing. Though I think part of the reason it didn’t charge much overall is that we didn’t get there early enough — next time I want to head out way sooner so I can get the full afternoon of sunlight.
While the panel was doing its thing, I went off and played with my friends. I swung on the swings really high — like, almost as high as the bar — and I zoomed down the slide a bunch of times. I also made friends with some of the neighborhood kids who were hanging out there, and we all played together. Time just flew by.
But as it got darker, it also got pretty chilly, so we ended up packing up and heading home. Even though we left because of the cold, I had such a good time today. I really hope I can come back to Soils Park again soon — maybe next time I’ll bring the solar panel a lot earlier and see how much it can charge in a full afternoon.
今天我带着我的太阳能板去了 Soils Park，想在户外实地试一试。一开始效果很棒，充电很顺利。但太阳一开始下山，光线就变弱了，所以我得把太阳能板挪到一个更高的地方，去抓住最后一点阳光。
最让我吃惊的是这个——就算太阳已经下山、在我眼里完全是黑乎乎一片，太阳能板还在充电，只是非常非常慢。我猜外面应该还有一点点我们人眼看不到的光，但太阳能板能感应到。这个发现真的让我大开眼界。不过我觉得今天总体充电不多，部分原因是我们到得太晚了——下次我想早点出门，把整个下午的阳光都利用上。
太阳能板在自己工作的时候，我就跑去跟朋友们玩了。我荡秋千荡得超高——几乎要荡到横杆那么高了——然后我从滑梯上嗖嗖地滑了好多次。我还跟在那儿玩的邻居小孩交上了朋友，大家一起玩。时间嗖一下就过去了。
但天色一暗，气温也跟着降下来了，最后我们就收拾东西回家了。虽然是因为冷才走的，但今天玩得真的很开心。我希望能很快再去 Soils Park——下次我想把太阳能板早点带过去，看看一整个下午能充多少电。