Looking for advice regarding brands - so many to choose from and hard to know what’s good value, what’s overpriced and what’s cheap for a reason.
Would like at least 120w and an Anderson plug.
Your thoughts appreciated!
Best Value Portable Solar Panel or Solar Blanket
bobkin on 19/11/2020 - 10:25
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Thanks for the reply. I ended up buying a 120W dometic foldable panel ($250 on sale at anaconda). It seems the cheaper ones are better value in general but at this price it seemed like a good balance between price and quality
I just ordered Kickass 200w. Shall see how we go hey, like a lucky dip. Cheap cables, cheap controllers, cheap hinges,frames, leg supports, there's plenty of reasons cheap is cheap. Some rust easy. I'm hoping these kickass gimme 5+ years. I nearly went the sunyee. My old 80w was a powertech from jaycar. It was good, I just need 200W or more now so I had to upgrade. I was restricted by a 60cm door hence I paid more for better folding ability.
Yeah you can get the ebay (outbax, sunyee etc) really cheap but they operate about 25% of spec. The expensive panels are better but i think if your expectation isnt too high the cheapies are better bang for buck. I bought a so valled 250w outbak solar blanket for $150 but my testing shows in real terms its about 100w.. pumpd in about 6amps which isnt too bad for this tkg small panel