Customer Reviews With Photos

This review is for the Kimbluth brand 10 gauge, XT60 extension cable (5 feet). This cable does not use over molded XT60 connectors, instead, regular connectors with a boot are used with good heat shrink tubing over the boot and a couple inches of cable. You can see the adhesive from the heat shrink tubing has oozed out of each end (as it should). This configuration gives you a lot of purchase when disconnecting the XT60 connectors. This cable should last a very long time. The cable looks to be made from quality two conductor 10 AWG wire.

Newpowa never seems to disappoint. I own a few different panels from them, and a 15Amp MPPT charge controller. This panel actually powers a micro-system in my son's bedroom (see picture). This panel provides ample charge for his small system, with consists of a little PWM controller that has Lithium charging capabilities, a 12V, 24Ah LiFePO4 pack I built, and a little 200W inverter. Mainly used to charge his phone, iPad, etc and is wired up into some 12V LED strip lights on his ceiling. I would definitely buy again if I had a need for a 50W panel, or if space was at a premium, but truthfully, for the price, $15 or $20 more gets you a 100W panel, so there's that...

This is the best portable solar panel available, made from exceptionally high-quality materials that make it resistant to bending and breaking. It features a rubber-like coating that protects the solar cells from deteriorating over time. Unlike my other solar panels, which began to chip after a week, this one feels and looks incredibly durable. Even at full price, it outperforms its competitors, but when on sale, it’s an exceptional deal. I use it with my Anker F1200, where it reaches 375 watts on bright days or hovers between 280 and 330 watts, allowing for faster charging. Highly recommended for anyone seeking a heavy-duty 400-watt solar panel.

This cable is made from thick, heavy gauge wire and carried the power from my 50-watt and 100-watt solar panels just fine with no loss of voltage or current. The easy quick connect SAE plugs pop on and off in a hurry when it's time to disconnect anything, but stay on firmly until then. The dust/weather protective caps on each end are handy, too, I like that they're built into the sides of the caps and not on a ring that can slide up and down on the wire like some others, I never have to look for them if they've moved, they just stay where they need to be all the time. I also like that the wires are a joined pair that's easy to manage as a single cable and not separated cords that tangle up when you want to put them away. Working great, easy to deploy and pack back up, made from rugged feeling materials... What more can I say? 5-stars!

Summers in Arizona can be brutal and we have some spectacular lightning storms during the summer monsoon season. I got this kit so I can quickly connect my portable generator to my house electrical system in case of a power outage. WARNING: This kit is "step 1" to a proper installation - it needs to be complemented with either a generator interlock or a transfer switch (hint: the interlock is cheaper to buy and to install). Either method ensures that the grid power line is disconnected from the house when the generator is in use and will protect both you and your property as well as a power company lineman who may be working on restoring power. CAUTION: No matter how experienced you are in doing electrical wiring, I definitely recommend hiring a licensed electrician to complete the connection. The electrician will ensure the proper permits are pulled and that all wiring is done in accordance with the National Electric Code and local regulations. In addition to this kit, you will also need: * The aforementioned interlock kit designed for your house breaker panel (or a transfer switch). * A 30 Amp DPDT circuit breaker for your house breaker panel + space in the panel to add the breaker. * Conduit & wire (for outdoor install) *OR* 3-conductor Romex w/Gnd (for interior/thru-wall install). Note: #10AWG is the minimum wire size for a 30A breaker, but #8 is recommended. Again - I highly recommend hiring a licensed electrician to complete the installation, even if you install the box and conduit yourself. PROs- * Heavy gauge cord x 30 ft. allows flexibility in placing the generator and the connection box. * Nice construction - both the cable and the junction box. * Standard NEMA L14-30 twist-lock connects directly to 240V x 30A generator receptacles. * Weatherproof, screw-down female cable connector for a secure connection at the junction box. * Appears to have an illuminated pilot light to remind you the line is live when the generator is running. * The instructions! The instructions aren't normally a PRO for things made overseas. These even tell you to torque the terminals to 35 in-lbs. CONs- * None observed or detected. I'm still acquiring the rest of the items needed, so it's not been installed yet. I'll update if I encounter any issues.

Best wattage I’ve seen is 81watts so far. I’m charging an EcoFlow River 2 with it. And a few hours in the sun will keep it topped off. Probably charging 20% per hour. Also this shows “overload” if you try to charge a GoalZero Yeti 500x. And one of the adapter plugs wouldn’t even go into the unit anyway. Plug was messed up. But it does fold up nicely and is quite portable for the wattage advertised.

Here's what I sent to Generac customer service 8/26/2024: I am very disappointed with your 7000 SMM because I have replaced 4 of them in my home system and now a 5th one has failed. I bought the replacements October 2020, December 2020, April 2021 and November 2023. My Generac 22kw was installed 8/25/2018 and works perfectly. Either your design is flawed or the components are not robust enough for the job. I want you to send me a new SMM free of charge because it should last longer and is expensive to buy at $150 each. I sent this to Generac 8/30/2024: From what I was told today, I would need to have a dealer confirm that I have a defective SMM and then you would send him a replacement. The dealer would have to come to my house to install it and charge me for installation. They would charge $250 for installation which is $100 more than if I just buy the part myself Why won’t you answer my question about the poorly designed and built SMM? You know that they are not reliable The dealers know they are not reliable The customers know that they are not reliable Your lawyers know that they are not reliable, and have probably instructed you to not admit that they are poorly designed and built. Generac has a great reputation for its generators. Why can’t you make a module with the same quality as your generator? I challenge you to respond to me truthfully.

Only think I don’t like is it didn’t cater for the gas cap. Other than that is great. I am using it on my POWERMATE 2000W INVERTER GENERATOR and it’s fits good.

Seems to be a quality MPPT, weight feels good and it’s all metal, does the job without any problems on my 48v system. App is a little glitchy if you try to adjust the parameters on anything beyond 12v unfortunately.

Like any solar panel, I was expecting to see maybe 75% of advertised wattage in absolute perfect conditions ... especially considering these are the less efficient Polycrystalline panels. The construction feels sturdy and I set them out on my truck bed today over lunch just to see what power they'd produce. This was mid-day sun but also in the middle of the winter. I also didn't have them mounted perfectly to get all the sun, just laid them out on my trunk and I was getting ~37 watts from each. (21.92V @ 1.677A) I didn't have my charge controller on-hand but that would translate to over 3A @ 12v! Combined these will out charge my plugin! Perfect addition to my boat to keep batteries topped off. Very pleased.

It's actually a huge bump in specs, as this tester also measures from 20VDC to 120VDC, as well as the small nominal bump in wattage. My older FrogBro 1600W only handles up to 60VDC and I've used the heck out of it in the past. I've used it for my roof mount panels and also my ground mount panels (all 540W bifacial), but 3 in parallel do have the ability to push a bit above 1600W. This Elejoy allows me to run a test on up to 6 panels, 3 in parallel, 2 series, and I'm very safely below the upper threshold! I've tested it with one of my spare panels (currently mid-winter, but still pushing some great power!) and it works just as well as my other unit. It's priced a little higher than the FrogBro, but is worth the $119.99 price tag! These must all be made by the same manufacturer, same cases, same leads, similar manual. These testers are a must-have for anyone that frequently tests panels, portable or gigantic. Even for a hobbyist, you just can't go wrong, as it makes troubleshooting and spec checks in seconds, versus hours. Before I got one of these devices I would spend hours calculating how panels performed under load. If this is you, you're going to wonder why you didn't pick up a device like this sooner.

I have a solar inverter system on my work truck so I can have electrical power on the truck. I recently upgraded the charge controller and the solar panels. My original charge controller was a Tracer 1215BN and I upgraded to a Victron 75/10. My original panel setup was four 30 watt Renogy panels, mainly because it's what fit on the top of the truck boxes. So not long after I got the new charge controller setup I found these panels which also would fit on the top of my boxes. The area is small, 16 3/4" x 96". The biggest problem was the width because it's narrow. These panels were only 1" wider than the top so not much is going to hang over. The new panels took longer to be delivered than tugapower.net said initially. They said a Friday delivery when I placed the order and Sunday after I hit the buy button. After they were shipped the date they said they would come they were delivered. They came out of CA and I'm at the other side of the country so 5 days travel. The boxes were only slightly beat up. A couple of tears made it through the cardboard but in the end no damage, not dents or scratches and obviously the glass panel survived. The next day I swapped them out the Renogy's and fired the new panels up. It was the end of the day about 4pm and it's winter so not much sun at that point. I think they pushed 36 watts from both panels combined. But the battery wasn't depleted so not much for them to do anyway. The next day was sunny so I tested them. Turned on the inverter about 9am and put a small light on it and it went up to 40 watts. Then I put my Milwaukee battery charger on it and it went up to about 70 watts. Still pretty early in the winter morning. By 9:30 I had beaten what my old Renogy panels did just the other day when it was full sun at 2pm, 75 watts with an 83 watt peak. I was testing them and had a 60 watt bulb as a load. As the sun continued to rise in the sky I hit the 100 watt milestone at 10am. My old Renogy panels maxed out at 7.2 amps into the battery at high noon in the summer. And now at 10am in the winter with a low angled sun I had 7.8 amps going into the battery. I kept swapping out batteries and then had to go to my Makita charger as I charged all my Milwaukee batteries. I maxed out at 126 watts and 9.6 amps which is near the limit of my 10 amp charge controller. Since the way my panels are mounted, the back of the panels are hidden and the bifacial probably won't come into play other than a small percentage sneaking by. But the reason I got these was their width so they would fit on my boxes. If the panels max out my charge controller I may get one that can handle the full output of the panels. I think the Victron 75/15 would be enough to handle the 200 watts that could come out of the panels. So on their first trial they beat my 120 watts worth of Renogy panels by a couple of amps. So I'm happy with that. As the sun gets higher into the sky as the warm weather comes on I'll see if I have the need for a larger controller. Maybe I'll get that 200 watts. More: It's been 3 weeks since I put the system together. As the sun gets higher in the sky the panel output has been getting higher. Today was yet another record output from the panels Just before noon on a cloudy day where the sun was peeking in and out I saw an output of 189 watts from my two 100 watt panels (in series). The sun is still pretty low in the sky in March and it was nearly full rated output. Another 11 watts would bring it up to 200 watts. I'm sure when we get into the summer months I'll be able to get the full output of the panels if I'm getting this close now. I did upgrade to the 75/15 Victron charge controller because the 75/10 was going to limit the power I could get from my panels. So far I'm pretty happy with the panel/controller combination purchase. And the bifacial aspect of the panels really doesn't come into play because they are mounted flat on the boxes of my truck. Maybe just a bit squeaks by because of the transparency between the cells. But I can't imagine much. More: Well apparently they can actually put out 100 watts per panel. March 17th I was able to get 199 watts out of 2 panels in series. The sun is still low in the sky and yet I was able to achieve rated output minus 1 watt. I'm impressed. I'm sure in the summer I might be able to reach that 200w+ mark.

For review today, I’ve got the Mormluck 88.8Wh Portable Power Station, 127W Solar Generator, 2 * AC Outlets110V/127W, 1*Type-C，2*QC3.0, LED Flashlight, Suitable for Power Outages, Hurricanes, Camping, and Emergency Backup. Sorry folks, this will be a longer review due to having lots of elements to go over but here’s a TLDR for those that don’t want to read all the nitty gritty. TLDR:it actually surprised me by working better than I expected it to. It’s still a very small capacity but it works just as well as the various tool battery topper power sources that I’ve used over the years. For the price tho, if you’re already in a tool battery ecosystem with plenty of batteries, I might just stick with their offerings over this. Swapping a battery is way faster than the slow charging of this unit. If you aren’t in a tool battery ecosystem then this isn’t a bad little choice. The manual says it uses 18650s inside. It only has the single 5.5mm x 2.1mm barrel jack as input and it charges extremely slowly when using the 12v car adapter. It is disappointing that you cannot charge it via the USB-C port since PD is plenty capable of supplying more than either of the included charging adapters. I did test the short circuit protection on the DC output barrel plugs and can say that they do shut off quite quickly, as they should. The barrel plug image on the screen would flash then turn off when it did so. Pressing the dc output button, after the short was removed, returned the function. All of the barrel plugs are center pin positive and outer barrel negative. Speaking of the USB ports, the USB-C port is only rated for 18w output (tho my test meter shows it as supporting 22w). 1 USB-A port is 5V/2.4A while the other 2 are QC3.0. I’ve included pictures of my USB meter testing each of the ports showing their supported protocols. Since both USB-A QC3.0 ports returned identical results, I only included the one picture of them. The AC ports are directly connected, meaning I can put a lead on the neutral of one and complete the circuit with a lead on the other AC outlet so what shows in one will show in the other. Not really a negative or positive, just how it’s wired. Both measured 115V at 60hz. No voltage when testing across either plug to ground. I do not have an oscilloscope to test the AC wave but I did test it with a few different LED bulbs that all flickered very heavily as been known to happen with dirty power waves. Based on that, I’d say there is basically a 0% chance of it being a pure sine wave output so keep that in mind if you have any particularly sensitive electronics that need a pure sine wave. I had no problems powering things like tool battery chargers tho some of my larger batteries have more capacity than this little station so it isn’t feasible for normal usage. The led light is not that bright and quite green, in flashlight collector standards. It would be better than nothing if you found yourself in that situation, at least. Looks to use 12 LEDs.

Poor fit, but the cover was designed for a larger unit, I suppose. Easy to install by slipping over. Good appearance if fitted and so far hasn’t faded in sun and seems to have good durability.

The SOLPERK panel is nowhere near IP67 waterproof as it claims. It uses SAE, not MC4 connectors and is rated to output 43.2V to the included 24V battery charge controller. Without a battery, this controller fluctuates between 17-20V. Without the 24V battery controller, it delivered up to 26W to my 2kWh battery, but given the time of day and month, this is expected output. The kickstand needs tools to secure fully and there are no safety or reliability lab test logos on the panel. Its claim of IP67 waterproof certification means it can be submerged in 1 meter deep water for 30 minutes without failing. The SAE connectors it uses aren't waterproof at all, and the black box on the back of the panel has openings on the top and bottom (see pics). The panel itself could perhaps tolerate light rain if you can keep the connector on its 10-foot cable dry, but humidity or wind-driven rain could certainly get into the box on the back. While there's not much point to using a solar panel in the rain, I can't believe anything stated about the panel if they flat out lie about its weather rating. Who knows if the panel itself can actually tolerate being rained on. It also means you can't leave the panel outdoors without constant supervision or a very-reliable weather prediction. I measured up to 46V directly from the panels without the charge controller. This voltage dropped as the panels warmed up to 125F on the front and back. The 43.2V rating is under standardized test conditions after the panels warm up. The included battery charge controller is supposed to charge 24V batteries so it seems strange it only outputs up to 20V, but it may just not work correctly without a battery connected that it can read a voltage from to know what voltage to output. I don't have any 24V batteries to test with. Unplugging the battery charger, I plugged the panel directly into a 2kWH battery with a port accepting up to 60V directly from a solar panel. With careful adjustments of panel direction at 3:30pm, I barely got it to deliver 26W to the battery after it warmed up, and it kept falling back to 25W. Given my location, the time of day and month of the year, an AI says this is an expected output given the 30W ideal conditions rating. The kickstand still moves a too easily when I tighten the wingnuts as hard as I can with my fingers. They should have added friction or corrugated washers to make the stand more stable. Otherwise, you need strong fingers or pliers to really secure it in place. SOLPERK has been selling solar panels with decent (but not stellar) star ratings since 2021, so hopefully they'll stick around to support their products. They still don't have a web site or phone number, only a mass-market email address for support. Overall, I dock two stars for lying about the IP67 waterproof rating, advertising MC4 instead of SAE connectors, and having no lab safety testing, and the loose kickstand.