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ok, 25% is great efficiency. But at over $1/watt pretty pricy. $0.25 is pretty common. $0.17/watt is sale price on older less efficient (around 17%)
Unless space is your absolute limitation, go with cheaper panels.
Put two of these on my Hiker Trailer square teardrop camper. In Sebring Florida at the 12 hours of Sebring for four days in March, we got about 300 watts out of the two panels in parallel at mid-day. Pretty happy so far. Paired with our Pecron 1500 and separate batteries to run our SetPower fridge freezer in our tow vehicle. Never got below 50% with no shore power while using a 120 vac charger to keep the 100 ah LiPo batteries charged to swap out with the SetPower. Great review.
Panels need to be more rectangular. So we can get the connections closer for less wire needed.
After watching, nah, my old panels are 200w and do fine in partial shade, shoot even decent in hazy atmospheric conditions and these panels are 3+years old. Don’t need a gimmick panel, I have 2 already bi- facial ,they work but help very little but I did get them cheap. Don’t know why tho birds love to crap on my darker color panels, so not sure if I’m getting any real benefits from them
RENOGY saying oh s!h? hobo done lost his mind…. later thanks hobotech
Put 4 of these on my Ekko. They work great even when mounted flat.
Recently got me a few ecoflow powerstations really enjoy watching your channel/ videos !
They look like the perfect panels for my yellow solar submarine!
Thanks Professor, not a bad price either, especially with your discount code!👍
Thank you for pointing out that partial shading doesn't mean overcast.
During a break in the clouds on a chilly, windy, un-humid day fairly near the coast, I saw my 600w of CIGS panels very briefly make 773w!
Have you ever tested dokio 400 watt solar panels?
Perfect timing. I get some shading on my balcony and was looking for exactly this. Hopefully your discount code works for us expats in Japan.
Thank you Hobo for this review.
I saw a video of a guy installed two of these on his van and he was amazed at how much he was getting while in the shade. Cuz who wants to park their car in the sun(if they have panels on the top)? These panels are amazing and 100% replace the competition.
6:25 What do you mean not a good value per watt? Years ago it was $1 per watt and now, with this pretty revolutionary tech, it's STILL $1 per watt? WHAT!? THAT'S AWESOME! Finally something that's price hasn't gone up!
As always an honest well tested review. Mahalo.
There are basically two ways to make a solar panel shade-resistant. The first is to use a half-cut-cell design which doubles the number of solar cells on the panel and also doubles the number of internal strings (which are then paralleled internally… so instead of 3s it is now 3s2p internally)… and doubles the number of bypass diodes. This is the typical way to do it and the panel lifespan is not affected. Most residential panels made today are half-cut and bifacial and do very well in low-light, ambient, and partial-shading conditions.
The second is to put a SMD bypass diode on each cell (or at least on sets of 2 or sets of 4 cells). This allows even more variable shading on the panel, but there are some severe issues. The first is cost. The SMD diodes have to fairly beefy to sink the bypass current and having a lot of them vastly increases the cost of the panel. The second is lifespan. It is unclear whether having so many electronic components built into the cell topology will lead to a shorter life-cycle for the panel, or not. Diodes are fairly simple devices but they also generally get thermally cycled a lot due to the way diodes work. Cell-level diodes can actually hasten a panel's demise once the panel has already started to fail because the concentrated current on remaining cells will overheat the diode.
Its an interesting concept, though. I think there is a niche for higher bypass diode density… for small systems anyway. But its obviously too expensive for large systems. People HAVE done cell-diode-group designs in the past and such panels have always had significantly shorter life-spans, but the technology is far more refined today so maybe that problem has been solved. I don't know.
-Matt
Just hoping the Tariff War does not effect solar products.
Good stuff, now make it in a 400 watt panel please 🙏
Nice panel, great review. Thanks!
The shade tolerance is great. I don’t think the price is that bad though. Surprised at the high Voc at 37volts, my standard Renogy are much lower. Won’t be able to put two of these into my EF Delta.
These would be perfect on a sailboat.
Is it possible i may be able to have this panel to test for myself ?
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Excellent test 👏
I have 2 old 100W Renogy`s, with good sun the output is sometimes 210/220 W. but not this new technology ! Outstanding panels
I'm still confused why they didn't make it bifacial as well.
Could you test this panel behind a tree on a sunny day? Maybe by putting a bunch of cables on it? Would be interesting to see what happens if every cell is slightly covered.
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I like to use chicken broth in my hot tub, smells better
Looks like a good fit for under my roof rack.
I recently purchased (like last week) 4xRenogy 16BB N-Type 250 Watt Bifacial Solar Panels,they was giving me 1013kWs into my ED3+…I was even getting around 100watts on a grey wet miserable day here in Ireland!…amazing panel!🙌
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Salt on Chips. Nice.
Freaking awesome!! Thanks for the vod and the review. I am for sure buying these for my overland trailer. They are a bit high, i agree, but like you said, it's perfect for my setup. Tha is renogy for allowing @Hobotech to review!!
I mounted two Shadow Flux panels on my Sienna. I’m very happy with the performance
Improved performance during Power pole shadows or tree shade NOT cloud / overcast.
Just bought 4 of the 200w panels, thanks to your review
GREETINGS!
That’s an awesome panel.
These are silly expensive, but if you need that shade tolerance and space is limited and budget isn't an issue, these seem to be the best option. A bit of a min-max pick.
Looks like a pretty solid panel, thanks for the review Hobo
What is the best solar panel for overcast
Sounds awesome for a sailboat where we always have some shading from mast boom and standing rigging :-). Sucks the 6 200W panels I have now are only a few years old.
Good review as usual. Question: Oupes is having a flash sale ending tonight. Among the offerings is a Mega 5 + the B5 battery and (6) 240w folding solar panels for $4059.00. This is on the Oupes site only. Does this sound too good to be true? Also I have not found ANY preppers or reviewers raving about this flash sale as they normally do. Thoughts?