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in today's video we're checking out this it is the jackery solar saga 100 watt 18 volt solar panel we're gonna see how well it charges talk a little bit about the specs and uh yeah let you know what i think about it [Music] okay so this is it this is the box that the jackery sona saga 100 watts 18 volt solar panel comes in as per my jackery video i bought this myself this isn't something i got free from jacqueline talked a little bit about why i decided to buy it because it is quite an expensive solar panel as you can see here not as uh sexy packaging as the the jack explorer 500 came in but we'll take it out of the box and show you what's inside and talk about how it works and then run a couple of tests so if we open up the box here we have the solar panel inside some bubble wrap down to one side pop this over there we also have um a little bit of material or paper materials in there so comes a two years warranty as stand the same with the jacker explorer um same as actually in here i didn't find it at the time but there's a little thing that you can extend the warranty for additional 12 months so three years warranty on both of the products the information about the warranty stuff and then a little product manual that talks a little bit about the specifications and kind of how to look after things which is uh pretty good um so yes the panel itself so as mentioned this is a 100 watt 18 volt solar panel from jackery it's paired to go really well with the jackery products obviously you can use other solar panels but it you know they've designed it to work well um with their product in terms of the dimensions when it's folded like it is now we've got um 61 centimeters long about 53.5 centimeters wide and about three and a half centimeters in terms of its thickness when we fold out obviously it doubles in size so about 122 centimeters long um and obviously the same width and the thick the thickness goes down to about term two centimeters so pretty good the materials like a a nylony type material i think is the best way i'll explain it with a little rubberized handle that is um magnetized which helps keep it closed it doesn't have a case or a bag or anything that it goes in but it's um pretty robust in itself you see on the front here there is a velcro foot that pops out which makes it also easy to set up and we have the same on the other side of the velcro foot along with this kind of i don't know the name of the material it's like a it's like a waterproofy type material um but as mentioned this isn't waterproof i think it's ip55 which originally means it's certified it's dust proof and everything so you're not gonna get dust uh inside here once it's sealed there's a pretty good seal and it is somewhat water resistant but again jack we don't recommend you leave it out in the water if you look inside here i'll show you what we have so this is the version three of the solar saga 100 i didn't realize that when i ordered i actually thought it was version two actually wasn't even aware that version three had come out so version two has uh the usb connectors kind of up here somewhere um and then like a little port opened up over here that had the connector to connect it back to the jacket which we got at the moment but here means that obviously these ports are away from dust dirt and rain and you can put an ipad and phone and stuff in here keep it zipped up whilst it's charging so on here we have a usb a and a usbc port which is good that we have usb-c here still we don't have it on the jackery in my opinion then we have a i think it's about two just over two and a half meters about nine foot um cable that connects back to the jackery so remember the jackery has an mppt charging module in there for solar so you plug this in with the eight mil uh dc port on here that's one thing that a little bit frustrated about that they've done with this version three version two which again i thought i was getting has this cable but connected into an anderson connector so it's got a little anderson output that then you plug this um dc connector in and obviously with that amazon connector makes it more versatile and you can connect it to other solar controllers to complement an existing solar setup so one thing i'll show you a bit later in the video i purchased a goal zero um dc extension lead an eight mil extension lead they're quite hard to find these about 18 pounds each you bought two of them one so that i can extend this existing lead when i am charging and using it with this um the jackery explorer 500 but also another one that i am going to cut apart connect some anderson connectors on there and then be able to hopefully use this in my hero camper to complement the solar i have on there as well so not the end of the world just a little bit frustrating that they kind of try and lock it in for you only using it with the jackery without buying which isn't that easy or making of extension leads especially at the cost of this panel it's like over 200 pounds 250 pounds or something so a lot of money um but is a good quality product just annoying that they've decided to do that zip this up i'm gonna talk to you a little bit more about it so in terms of weight again like it is big uh and robust it's about nine pounds that weighs about four kilograms so not actually too bad to be lugging around you pop this open that's another thing that jackery have done with the solar panels so magnetized at the top here which helps keep it closed you can see these solar panels are quite dark and if i try to tilt it around a little bit into the light in the cave here a little bit shiny so they have an etfe film on top of them which the previous ones didn't have and that's helps basically keep them clean make them a little bit more dust and dirt and resistant that shiny surface though does also have a little bit of an impact on their solar efficiency i think so they're still 23 efficient which is pretty good um but i don't think they're quite as efficient as the version two because of this finish but this finish in my opinion is better it's gonna be more robust it means it's gonna last um a lot longer so it is a good balance of cellular performance in combination with durability and longevity so again i think it's good so these mono crystalline crystal cells are made by sun power so if you know anything about solar um you've seen some of my other videos on my server setup and stuff i don't have some power cells because they weren't as easy available to me at a time but these are made by sunpower so that's another reason why you're paying some premium money for these this solar panel because there are good cells in here hence the high efficiency so that's it i think for we need to talk about in the cave what we're going to do when the weather brightens up we'll go outside plug this into the jackery explorer 500 as mentioned in that video you can't pair more than one of these panels um with this so don't bother trying so only buy one of these if you're going to be using it the explorer 500 we'll see how well it works i don't expect that we're going to get 100 watts into this because that's going to be super optimal conditions and i think it's unlikely but it's going to be interesting to see kind of what performance we get both from plugging things directly into the usb adapters in here we're going to say if we charge an iphone or something i do have a little monitor um usb connector so you can see what kind of voltage and stuff we're getting and does that have an impact on the energy that's going into here so obviously mppt controlled in here i'm assuming it's just a dc to dc uh charging on those usb ports but i don't know and we will test it so i'll come right back when we're outside and the weather is suitable to see how well this is working maybe later today maybe over the weekend i don't know it depends on what the uk weather decides to do okay so it's the following day and the sun is shining for a little bit here in the uk so i've got the jackery 100 watt panel out so we can have a little look see how it's performing so pop around the backs where we got the jackery set up see what we're currently getting i'm not sure how much reflection there will be on the screen but hopefully you can see it well enough so we can see here currently getting 77 watts so that's actually not um too bad i think with the current situation i'll do a couple of walk bys so we can see what it looks like when things go overcast and cloudy to give you some idea of how it recovers with that mppt controller okay so this whilst we're waiting trying to see how easy it is you just see it's gone quite overcast but we're still getting 27 watts out of the panel which is pretty good considering the sun is right behind the clouds so just goes to show we can still get some generation even whilst it's overcast so we just wait for a while for the clouds to pass and then we do this proper test so whilst we are waiting for the sun to come out properly again this is the goal zero cable i was telling you about so it's the 30 foot extender eight mil cable so that's an extender so we've got the nine foot with the jackery as standard so it's gonna give us a good extension like i said it's really hard to get hold of these eight mil extension leads so as i mentioned earlier i got two of them and i'll do a separate video as i cut one of these up to make it into an eight mil socket into anderson connector so you can use this serna panel with some other stuff but uh yep all right wait a little bit longer the sun is nearly kind of clear in those clouds but uh i'm so impressed even again pretty dull um but we're still getting 28 watts of energy so i'm quite impressed with that actually okay so we've got some better sun now so i'm going to show you walking past and hopefully we should see a really consistent 76 watts um going up and down as i walk past now it's not super clear skies and obviously it's not um peak summer or anything but that's a pretty good generation i think so let's see what walk past makes it look like okay so walking past now okay so hopefully the panel performed quite well there and now i'll show you the impact obviously when using those usb sockets are on the side of the panel so right now 75 watts is fully going into the jackery for charging if i plug in my iphone you'll see that power drops a little bit as you'll see now power is being shared with the usb sockets and the jackery so the phone is charging if i unplug this again you see it just goes up a little bit it's more noticeable at the the lower power generation so i think right now it has some surplus that's not really impacting the amount of power that can go into the jackery but when it was lower like say 50 watts when i plugged the phone in there was more of a noticeable input so i feel like we might actually be hitting the threshold of what this panel can provide to the jackery but i don't think it's a panel thing so much more as the limitation of this particular version of the jackery okay so i think that's it for this test so the peak we saw here in late march in the uk was 77 78 watts on a relatively clear day which i think is pretty impressive stay tuned for other videos in the future where i'll mention obviously how well this panel is performing both again with the jackery in the height of summer as well as if i am able to make that cable to make it work um with my hero camper as well to compensate the existing 150 watt panel that's going to be on there but i'm really impressed with how it's working um yeah so it's expensive but i think it performs well as at least compared to some of the other solar panels that i've tested at these kind of portable fold out kind of offering so uh hopefully it's gonna last a long time and be a well-performing product um the other thing i just checked is the temperature of the panels so there's about 36 degrees centigrade so again it's not really hot uh here in the uk today so that's relatively low i think um for these panels in terms of the heat because they are a bit darker they are a little bit hotter i think than some of the the lighter panels but again part of that covering is makes it more dust resistant and should increase the longevity of the panels okay so i hope this video helped please like if you enjoyed the video much appreciated feel free to ask any comments or leave any feedback down below in the comments section there's some links in the description if you want to pick up one of these and i'd also appreciate it if you consider subscribing and pressing that bell notification button to be made more aware a future spectrum geeks videos take care yourself and i'll catch you in the next one bye for now [Music] [Music] so [Music] you ...
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