I'm puzzled by the advice (from several sources) about painting the
inside of a solar wax melter either white or silver.  Mine is black inside
and out. I paint it black to absorb light, not to reflect light. The
absorbed light is radiated as heat.
      A light-colored surface might reflect some of the light back out of
the box. Some of the heating effect would be lost.
      When we walk across an asphalt parking lot in summer, we feel the heat
radiated back from the pavement. Sunlight hits the asphalt; heat is radiated
from it.
Tim
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(southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA
39.95 N 75.53 W

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