There are several discounts on offer both direct on the bouge website or you can use my viewer discount codes below. 20% OFF(USA store)/ 27% OFF (AU store) discount code for 100W Yuma Cigs: DENMONKEY1 (Available for US and AU store) 22% OFF(USA store)/ 28% OFF (AU store) discount code for 200W Yuma Cigs: DENMONKEY2 (Available for US and AU store) Expiry date: Jan. 10th
Merry Xmas & Happy New Year Brett, Still only producing 13A +/- My concern is heat will degrade the cells quicker then a raised panel with room for free airflow & heat the to dissipate.
I tell ya what, I’d be very tempted to cut up a piece of wood in the shape of a wedge to lay the panel on. Glueing it down at those sharp angles will eventually lead to it peeling off. Pretty awesome panel just the same! A good investment in my book.
That's not a bad idea. Even some hard foam might work to flatten it out a bit. . I suppose when mounting the corflute, I can score it but keep it as one piece and use that. I hadn't really considered these options until you mentored it. Thanks much.
Yeah Nah, not at $700 or even $511 for a 200W panel that doesn't give anywhere near 200W in real conditions, you can keep that, my Foldable 200w Renogy (which are notoriously not that good with output) is outputting 192W sitting on hot concrete for hours (I have the same Uni-T tester as you), no point of wetting the panel to get full output unless you're going to tow a water tank behind the van that constantly wets the panel through summer, I know you did it just to show how a hot panel derates itself, but in the real world where it's hot all day, that's what matters to how a panel works. Wetting the panel just showed that cigs panels derate themself just like any cheap panel, also you said you would be happy having this panel come flying off the van that a solid panel, I don't think the person driving behind you would be happy for ANY panel to come flying off your van possibly causing an accident or fatality, I understand your comment on this, but it's better to install something correctly rather than think IF it comes off it will cause a smaller accident for someone else.
Sup pc. Yeah all panels are effected by heat, there's no getting around that... for now I guess. If I had more time and I may get around to it later do a side by side. I can tell you that I had the atempower 200w sitting beside the cigs on the ground today, the atem charging the delta 2 and the cigs the van After hosing all of them, the cigs were doing about 180 each, the atem only went to 110. Not direct sun. I nearly grabbed a renogy flex to compare it to the atempower originally instead of the allpowers. I have a few renogy inverters and A dcdc charger, that all work fine. I did have a solar controller die though. Might have to still look at that later. Re the panel coming off, in a perfect would that would never happen, but let's face it. If people apply the same amount of effort into mounting as some of the wiring I've seen. We know it's going to happen. I've since extensive research trying to find the perfect solution for flex panels and lots of people can tell you what NOT to use but there seems to be no consensus of what actually works. Thus I'm yet to mount any up there yet. No hard mechanical mount makes me nervous. But the point was, I'd rather have a bit of film weighing 3kg come at me, than a piece of plastic sheet at 6kg or even worse, a 20kg piece of aluminium and glass. But if rather avoid them all 😁 have a good new year bruv.
There are several discounts on offer both direct on the bouge website or you can use my viewer discount codes below.
20% OFF(USA store)/ 27% OFF (AU store) discount code for 100W Yuma Cigs: DENMONKEY1 (Available for US and AU store)
22% OFF(USA store)/ 28% OFF (AU store) discount code for 200W Yuma Cigs: DENMONKEY2 (Available for US and AU store)
Expiry date: Jan. 10th
Lovely Ep and area you live and setup of a new product, Be great to see how the go
What a fantastic review
Thanks for sharing
Happy new year
Cheers uncle Bob. Have a good one mate
Happy New Year mate, love the honesty of the reviews
This makes me happy with my king's 200w folding solar panel. Was getting around the 170w Mark.
Merry Xmas & Happy New Year Brett,
Still only producing 13A +/- My concern is heat will degrade the cells quicker then a raised panel with room for free airflow & heat the to dissipate.
I tell ya what, I’d be very tempted to cut up a piece of wood in the shape of a wedge to lay the panel on. Glueing it down at those sharp angles will eventually lead to it peeling off. Pretty awesome panel just the same! A good investment in my book.
That's not a bad idea. Even some hard foam might work to flatten it out a bit. . I suppose when mounting the corflute, I can score it but keep it as one piece and use that. I hadn't really considered these options until you mentored it. Thanks much.
@ my pleasure. You have a great channel. 👍
Appreciate it
That was a long unboxing video. Will have to wait 6 months to see the actual review ?
Only time will tell.
Yeah Nah, not at $700 or even $511 for a 200W panel that doesn't give anywhere near 200W in real conditions, you can keep that, my Foldable 200w Renogy (which are notoriously not that good with output) is outputting 192W sitting on hot concrete for hours (I have the same Uni-T tester as you), no point of wetting the panel to get full output unless you're going to tow a water tank behind the van that constantly wets the panel through summer, I know you did it just to show how a hot panel derates itself, but in the real world where it's hot all day, that's what matters to how a panel works.
Wetting the panel just showed that cigs panels derate themself just like any cheap panel, also you said you would be happy having this panel come flying off the van that a solid panel, I don't think the person driving behind you would be happy for ANY panel to come flying off your van possibly causing an accident or fatality, I understand your comment on this, but it's better to install something correctly rather than think IF it comes off it will cause a smaller accident for someone else.
Sup pc. Yeah all panels are effected by heat, there's no getting around that... for now I guess. If I had more time and I may get around to it later do a side by side. I can tell you that I had the atempower 200w sitting beside the cigs on the ground today, the atem charging the delta 2 and the cigs the van
After hosing all of them, the cigs were doing about 180 each, the atem only went to 110. Not direct sun. I nearly grabbed a renogy flex to compare it to the atempower originally instead of the allpowers. I have a few renogy inverters and A dcdc charger, that all work fine. I did have a solar controller die though. Might have to still look at that later. Re the panel coming off, in a perfect would that would never happen, but let's face it. If people apply the same amount of effort into mounting as some of the wiring I've seen. We know it's going to happen. I've since extensive research trying to find the perfect solution for flex panels and lots of people can tell you what NOT to use but there seems to be no consensus of what actually works. Thus I'm yet to mount any up there yet. No hard mechanical mount makes me nervous. But the point was, I'd rather have a bit of film weighing 3kg come at me, than a piece of plastic sheet at 6kg or even worse, a 20kg piece of aluminium and glass. But if rather avoid them all 😁 have a good new year bruv.