I was looking for some solar lights and found this immense deal at my local kmart. Great price per watt and very easy to set up.
2 in stock at Camberwell.
Anko 160W Folding Solar Panel $99 (Was $149) in-Store @ Kmart
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- Kmart prices including clearance are nationwide (red, yellow or white ticket). No need to list store location in the title in these cases with exception of where the prices are a hand written sticker or a printed sheet of paper (not a ticket).
How many of these will I need so I wont have to rely on the grid?
0, as you won't have 240v.
Well I mean in theory you could use an inverter then a transformer lol
1 should suffice for your phone
tru, these are great for that!!
Not sure if serious question, but's its main intention is for camping. Not to get off the grid!
This panel is ~1.34m x 0.77m. Surface area of the panels is ~1m^2. 160W is a realistic peak output for a couple panels that size.
I mention this because a lot of cheap panels overrate their max output by a fair margin.
Like this "250W" folding panel, which is a bit smaller, 1.35m x 0.65m. Over rated by a good 30-40%, in my estimation.
So yeah, good value at $99. Better than the "250W" folding panel for $169 on eBay.
Not really, I'm eyeing on something like this. But have no $$$ :(
https://www.amazon.com.au/Gencity-Solar-Panel-Controller-Car….
What do you think of it?
Not really what?
If that outputs more than 175W in summer at the perfect angle I'd be amazed. More than 150W I'd be surprised.
Well, it was the heaviest and largest one out there for the cheapest price I could find.
@[Deactivated]: Largest? Unless I'm misreading something that's 0.77m^2 for 300W. Maybe the listed dimensions are wrong. Weight is kind of irrelevant unless you're getting more significantly three dimensional panels with reflectors to focus the sunlight.
A high quality LG Neon 2 330W panel is 1.7m^2. This thing is claiming to be 220% better than that.
@DonWilson: Well, I probably get one of those sooner or later. You got any idea on how I could measure its true wattage? thanks
@[Deactivated]: Baseline assume you can get 150W/m^2. That's an OK cheap panel. A high quality panel with an appropriate price hike like the LG will push 200W/m^2.
And again, even then that's probably the extreme limits where your panel is angled perfectly, in perfect weather, during the midday hours and you're in the right season. Getting that kind of result at 9am, even if it's summer with clear weather and you've got the angle perfect, is possible but unlikely.
The only real way to measure it is with a quality solar controller (probably more expensive than these panels) or relatively cheap DC wattmeter ($20-$50). I've only tested with one cheapie I own and while it seems to match up with results I've only read/watched a bunch of stuff and messed around equipment not good enough to say and taken pretty lacklustre notation. So I can't make a recommendation.
@[Deactivated]: I've only got four I think laying around and honestly they're poorly labelled and three are second hand. It's a hobby because I like playing around with it. Back when this youtube video landed I bought a SunYee new. It's fine and honestly I haven't used it much, it was a hobby purchase. But the real lesson is barring actual legitimate brand names not local businesses claiming to be legitimate brand names, assume mediocre panels.
My lesson is there's no free lunch, there isn't a magic solar panel out there that can output double what the best guys out there can do. Hell, even price doesn't really matter. You look at the industry standards of area vs output, you look at the branding, and you go with that.
-edit- and "big on eBay" or whatever platform is not good branding. Recognisable brand names and/or reviews where they actually measure stuff is.
@DonWilson: LG neon is a completely different type of panel at the other extreme of price range, it isn't a good comparison.
@Spendmore: Yes, I was deliberately using it as an example of how much better than this stuff it is and yet somehow on paper outputs < 50% of it, because the specs on a bunch of panels is way worse. That's the whole point of this thread.
@DonWilson: One is monocrystaline and the other is mono perc… aren't these different types of panels?
@Spendmore: Do you have thinking problems?
The point of the comparison is a very good panel, the LG mono PERC panel, has an output of ~200W/m^2. These cheap monocrystalines, a technology worse than mono PERC, are claiming to double or better the mono PERC panels.
My point is they're claiming to beat a better quality, better techonolgy panel by more than double. Are you defending that?
@DonWilson: No need to get upset 😀
There are many cheaper panels than LG that can output higher figures. Just because it doesn't have a name doesn't mean it can't.@Spendmore: Honestly yeah, it does. It's one of those "technically possible" thing but you have to believe that kale smoothies cure cancer to assert it does. Like hey, maybe they do. But we have no example of that happening.
the 250w looks tiny and 6kg. the 300w 1 is 11kg
Nek minnit: Tesla by Kmart
Any ideas on how to see if any stores have stock or just a walk in thing
Got one at Kmart Innaloo - about 5 left when i was there this arvo.
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