PSP-200W Solar Panel

Just unboxed this and I have to say they have really gone to town on the design of the bag, solar panel and it’s stand. I will test the solar panel sometime over the next week and will report back. Judging from what I’ve seen, the all round quality and attention to detail of its design, it’s looking pretty good.Well We’d 18th October Nottingham 11am. It’s sunny and the sun isn’t behind a cloud but there are cotton will clouds. I’ve wound the two Sid windows of the car down an inch and clipped the two button holes at the top of the 100w solar panels on the side of the car with the carabiners provided and got 60w. I could have used the stands provided, Which would have created a better angle on the panels and turned them about 30 degrees to the side to position the panel to face the sun head on but that is not how I intend to use this solar panel that I intend to keep in the car. So I’m pretty sure the panel would have hit close to 100% even in October.I will test the stands but not today as the dog needs another walk before it rains this afternoon.

The most I've seen out of this panel is about 63W and that's in utterly saturated mid summer sun in the UK where there are zero clouds in the sky. Worse is that if the weather isn't perfect you hardly ever do see 60W and without it you don't get anything but extremely patchy USBC PD charging. I've even tried charging with USBC PD and the DC cable at the same time thinking there was just some odd regulator stuff going on per port, but no. Like in my photo attached its worth pointing out once its past noon this far north you need to angle the panels to get efficiency, just from flat to what's in the photo was a difference of 20W extra output. The included stands are compact and do enough of a job to be useful, but are perhaps a bit heavy ontop of the panel to always carry.With really bad conditions the panel is still useful to trickle charge a battery. Even with mega black clouds with breaks of summer sun I managed to get 100Wh in a battery from around 4pm until sun down. Im just wondering where the extra 40W in perfect conditions is.The quality, portability and general usefulness of this panel is there, but I wouldn't want to trust it without some batteries to charge. USBC PD to directly charge a laptop battery I'd really worry about constantly cycling the power and how well regulated the port really is. Charging an M1 Macbook Pro especially, it can do it, it absolutely does work. But I just don't trust the quality of the thing on my expensive electronics. I recommend getting a cheap LiFePO4 power station. This Anker one works ok https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-Portable-Station-Generator-Outdoor/dp/B09Q5DJV71/Would be 5* if the peak W wasn't out by 40% which I dont think can even be accounted for the difference between use on the equator vs UK. If I work out the trick to unlock some more power I'll up my rating.Other minor negatives are the charge ports could really have done with a zip pouch around them like many other panels, and the rubber to bung up the ports would have been better served as several pieces. I think this is easily fixed by snipping the rubber port cover into pieces and perhaps cut and pasting a neoprene pencil case around the charging area.

Just received the 100W panel in the post and I'm amazed at how compact and sturdy the whole thing is. It appears to be very well made in every respect, including the bag that holds two foldable stands, the connection cables, and adaptors.Overcast days so far and no chance to test it out, but hanging in a window, the green LEDs are blinking as follows...INDOOR WINDOWSolar: 5 blinks per sec:DC output: 1 blink a sec:OUTDOOR, NO SUN:Solar: steady lightDC output: 1 blink a secThe enclosed User Guide gives very little in the way of guidelines concerning the LED lights.

Purchased to go with an EcoFlow 2, there isn’t a MC4 to XT60 cable supplied which for the cost of the panels is annoying, However EcoFlow advise you to buy their cable to use for 3rd party solar panels expensive but I felt it worth it for peace of mind.I tried it out today charging the EcoFlow 2 charger, it’s an October day temp around 14 degrees, some sun but not brilliantly! But I was eager to try it out.It hit 110 input which is the maximum a EcoFlow 2 can input, I got the 200w panels as it was on special and so rather than get the 100w and only get 75/80w input I went for the 200w to get the maximum. According to EcoFlow page this is fine, some electricity will be wasted but I may plug in a portable charger to the usb and charge both at the same time to see if the EcoFlow w input drops below 110wThe bag is quite heavy and the folding panels tricky to fold out & back but I’m sure with time I’ll get a knack to it.The stand could be better or supplied with a 3rd stand, as it doesn’t cover the length of the panels, so it’s a bit wobbly, but I’m hoping to pop it on the roof when I’m parked up campingOverall pleased.

The media could not be loaded. 100 Watt panel. Gets almost as much power as 200w panels and the margin is even closer in clouds.Excellent value at a fraction of the size and price.Added bonus, it has its own usb and usb c charge point.Only negative is I had to buy the generator plug separately. Additional £20 but still much cheaper.