Bought the solar generator last fall, and a set of 2 extra 100w panels; it all sat in a cabinet until yesterday when I finally got up the gumption to make sure it would do what I needed. The big thing for me - is to have a fan blowing ALL NIGHT for sleeping - and if that's all this enabled, good enough.
Yesterday morning - I plugged in a cheapo floor box fan, it pulled 65w on hi, and let it run for 10 hours. It drew the gen down to 60%. YAY ! Next thing to know, then, was how fast would it recharge using the panels - so this morning I set everything up outside, and just finished the test. Results below:
Four 100w panels, 15' of plug&play wiring on each
Very happy with this Gen; LiFePo4 batt, 2 solar charging intakes, pass-through
capability. Don't recall exactly the cost...$1400 comes to mind. Worth every penny.
The 400w of panels are prob 80-85% efficiency - so I was really happy to see the
322w coming in. The sky was mostly sunny, with the usual east TX clouds now and then.
Ok - here are the readings:
Time - percent charge.
10:30 - 60%
11:30 - 73%
12:00 - 80%
1:15 - 94% (see pic above)
1:55 - 100%
If you wanna know any other specs on it, ask away - and I'll dig out the booklet.
Ordered it direct from the company - I don't do Scamazon.
Yesterday morning - I plugged in a cheapo floor box fan, it pulled 65w on hi, and let it run for 10 hours. It drew the gen down to 60%. YAY ! Next thing to know, then, was how fast would it recharge using the panels - so this morning I set everything up outside, and just finished the test. Results below:
Four 100w panels, 15' of plug&play wiring on each
Very happy with this Gen; LiFePo4 batt, 2 solar charging intakes, pass-through
capability. Don't recall exactly the cost...$1400 comes to mind. Worth every penny.
The 400w of panels are prob 80-85% efficiency - so I was really happy to see the
322w coming in. The sky was mostly sunny, with the usual east TX clouds now and then.
Ok - here are the readings:
Time - percent charge.
10:30 - 60%
11:30 - 73%
12:00 - 80%
1:15 - 94% (see pic above)
1:55 - 100%
If you wanna know any other specs on it, ask away - and I'll dig out the booklet.
Ordered it direct from the company - I don't do Scamazon.
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