Price: $59.95
(as of Jun 30, 2024 18:08:59 UTC – Details)
Product Description
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Customers say
Customers like the quality, wiring, and ease of installation of the solar panel. For example, they mention it’s sturdy, has various wiring connections, and is easy to mount. Customers are also impressed with the appearance, saying it looks good. That said, opinions are mixed on battery charging, performance, and mounting.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
Steve Winter –
Purchased 2 for my Utility & Dump trailer 30W chargers
Purchased 2 for my Utility & Dump trailer 30W chargers, but have yet to install on my trailers. I’ve been using them on my lawn tractor, Zero turn and log splitter for about a month now to maintain the batteries and I’m pleased with how good they work. They are easy to move from one to another by just unplugging from one and re-plugging to another. Seems to charge well enough even on cloudy days. They are keeping my batteries at 13.4v to 13.6v. I’ve decided to purchased 50w chargers for my dump trailer because I want more charging capacity for the larger batteries because the batteries are discharged when in use.
My only complaint is that it would be nice if the adjustable angle mechanism had a spring loaded de tent (like on a walking cane) instead of the bolts and wing nuts for angle adjustment. Also, would be nice to have a long and narrow panel to accommodate location under the header of my dump trailer. Wattage size of 50w to 100w with a length of about 5 foot and a width of about 12″ to 16″
Kenneth Hatley –
Keeps my battery charged just fine
Easy to install does a good job keeping battery charged while using trolling motor great quality comes with two different ways to connect to battery.
Nivek –
Missing brackets
Panel works good but only came with half the mounting brackets
Martin –
Sadly disappointed, failed on first use. Read to the end update.
Bought it mid November to keep my pickup charged while away for xmas. My previous one 10w sometimes struggled to keep my battery charged if weather inclement.
I installed it checked it’s output. All seemed good. Parked the pickup with the panel on the dash in Florida.
Came back yesterday to a total flat battery. The battery was new (3 months). Checked the unit and it has no output. Very disappointed. Used once and it died, of course no warranty, its now 2 months old and used once.
UPDATE!
Due to pressure of work I did not contact the company or amazon to express my disappointment.
HOWEVER, the company must check their reviews and contacted me out of the blue. After replying to their email concerning technical info etc. They have now sent me a new F.O.C. panel which I plugged in this morning and is now working fine. As far as I am concerned this is great service, and going beyond the call. I’m very impressed in them checking reviews to make sure their customers are happy and contacting me when they realized my disappointment immediately. Thank you Mason and the staff at Sunpower for solving the situation. Incredible aftersales service!
JTassoni –
Very nice product, gate opener
I have this mounted as a permanent charger for my Patriot gate opener. Took me a bit to figure out how to hook it up to the original patriot hardware. Has universal type SAE connectors which are great if I have a period snowy or stormy weather I can just easily connect a trickle charger temporarily to keep the battery topped off. Easy peasy!
I used the battery direct pole connection option instead of the clamps. It’s nice to have that option.
The only thing that was difficult was tightening the butterfly nut located under the mount, there is not much room to get your fingers or a tool to tighten it. I get strong winds here and it needs to be tight.
Raymond P. –
Great solution in the absence of a regular outlet
Easy to install with the helpful brackets that allow angle adjustments for optimization in facing the sun. Have it mounted on the swim ladder at the rear of a sailboat stored out of the water for the winter. Needed to purchase an extension to run the wire to two large 12-volt marine batteries connected in parallel. Checked back after a week and the batteries are fully charged, as indicated by the solid green LED on the back of the panel and verified with a multimeter. I like the simplicity of the included controller that shows either solid or blinking red or green. These batteries are quite costly. Hopefully they will be maintained through the cold lengthy winter, enabling me to avoid the need to remove the heavy batteries and take them home each season.
Minnesota Joe –
Doesn’t Work & Not good customer service
I purchased the 30W Solar Charger, out of the box the charger would not produce power, I checked both sets of leads, neither would work to detect the Battery, I hooked my fluke tester directly to the leads coupling with the panel facing directly into the sun and it was not producing any power (No voltage). All it will do is the SOR flashes Red to Green on the charge controller. I got online to try to contact the manufacturer, no phone number listed, (1st indication that you should not be doing business with them), so sent Emails to them, (crickets). I finally had to contact Amazon, then Suner Support got back to me, by this time I had to return to work, then they want videos of what it is doing. In short, I would have not given them 1 star, but I thought if I didn’t my review would not get posted.
pat –
Green PowerWheels
Love these little MPPT panels. I Use this small panel to charge my kids power wheels garage. A Green EV solar Station. It works great and the SAE connectors make easy plugs for toddlers.