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if you didn't read the title of the video before clicking on it you might not know what's in these boxes these are flexible solar panels and I never would have guessed when I received the package it does say Fragile on the front but the first question I have about flexible solar panels is are they durable [Applause] these things did come pre-packaged together as a pair but I would say they handled that toss pretty good this is the one that landed on it actually cracks that box when it landed I don't want to scratch up the surface yet so I'm not going to toss this around but before I do anything else let me get all this garbage pieced up so that I don't leave any Trash behind in today's video I'm going to do a complete test and review of these bougie bouge RV Yuma 200 solar panels these panels are rated for a maximum power output of 200 watts and a maximum voltage of 25 volts so these solar panels will be compatible with a 12 volt system I do have two of them and the two panels that I have are different this one has all of this tape on the back and the tape will be used to tape this to something like a teardrop trailer a boat someplace where you don't necessarily want to drill holes to mount this then the other panel that I have has little eyelets so they're both rated for 200 Watts but the way they mount is just a little different I didn't expect these panels to be so big this thing is 86.2 inches long and 35 inches wide so these panels are almost seven feet long and almost three feet wide I do have a booze RV solar panel on my minivan camper and it's a little bit smaller than this and it fits on top of my minivan perfectly so I got the first Box open I'm going to go ahead and open this box too [Applause] so this is the same panel but this one is a little different because it has eyelets on the corners I don't know how strong these eyelets would be if I was going to mount this on something that's going fast such as a car they are very small eyelets there appears to be four on each side so eight eyelets total but they look like they're perfect for sheet metal screws so if you're gonna put this on something like a tin roof you'd be able to drill this in sometimes the wind can get up to 70 miles an hour here during storm season and I don't know how well these grommets will hold up to those extreme winds [Applause] I do want to give these solar panels a fair shake so I'm going to try to avoid scratching up the surface at least until I'm done testing them I'm glad that this panel came with Saran wrap on these mc4 cables because I don't have this hooked up to anything right now and it is in the Sun so these are hot leads 200 Watts 25 volts you could get a little shocker if you stuck these in your mouth so I would recommend avoiding that for now now that I've got these two solar panels out of the box let's go test them on a power station and see how much output we can actually get from them these did come in two separate boxes but I'm just gonna pack them up in a single box just to transport them back to where I'm going to use them interesting so as I've got these stacked up together the surface area of both panels is identical the border on the panel with the grommets is a little thicker than the border on the panel without the grommets good to see because that means that I can say that these two panels should put out the same exact wattage and voltage which means I can put them in parallel to get and I don't have to worry about there being any losses due to balancing of the panels I don't want to try to crack this surface just yet but I do feel like the flexibility does have a limit I'm gonna have to tighten this up a little more foreign test their output I will clean that surface back off just to give them that fair Shake as I move back to my vehicle I am going to do a 360 degree check of my area just to make sure I didn't leave any Trash behind there is a lot of trash out here and unfortunately because I don't have a trailer with me I'm not gonna be able to pull all of those tires out of here and bring them to the recycler and do me a favor if you have a bunch of tires like this just take them to the recycler there's no point in dishing them out in the woods for everybody else to deal with these two panels in this box aren't very heavy I'll look up the spec and I'll put it on the screen but I'm fully able to handle this with one hand in my empty box with the other [Applause] so all it takes is one night here in the Midwest yesterday I was wearing a t-shirt today last night it snowed and this season the sun doesn't go directly overhead and I'm on a little bit of a slope here but let's see what we get with these two solar panels there's my grommet panel and here's my tape panel foreign s are rated at 25 volts open circuit each I have the pkron e2000 portable power station which requires a minimum of 30 volts open circuit for its solar panel array so for today's test I'm going to put these two panels in series and that should give me something around 50 volts I'm going to test the individual panels and see what I get and then put them together and see what I get as well so right now I'm getting 30 volts open circuit on this panel and while I'm doing this I'm also confirming that the polarity on these cables is correct I have received a panel on occasion that has incorrectly routed cables and if you put those together that could be a disaster but right now I'm getting 31.34 volts my meter is on the panel so it might change the voltage a little bit but I'm happy with that I'm going to go ahead and put these two things together putting these in series I'm just going to hook the positive from one into the negative of the other now they're in series I can now see what the combined voltage is 61.6 so let's hook it into the power station and see how much power we get do I have enough cable to reach this power station I don't really want to set that power station in the mud so let's give it a shot as I'm plugging these solar panels in I do currently have a 50 state of charge on this thing this thing is rated to take up to almost a thousand Watts so these two panels together should give me up to about 400 watts so I'm definitely not going to go over their rated capacity all right remember the truth so I'm indicating I'm charging I'm getting 190 it's growing I don't know if you guys will be able to see this in the in the video there I'm hitting about 310 the wind is blowing and it has blow more of these panels over already so they're also getting a little dirty but 310 Watts puts me at about 75 percent of the rated output for the solar panels for me that is a success because I do have the sun off to an extreme angle and the solar panels are a little dirty for me throwing them around so I feel like if I had them in a place where they were staying clean and I could keep them close to properly angled to the sun I would get even higher results out of these solar panels now we're hitting almost 360 watts and that's a pretty good amount of output so I would expect from a 2 200 watt panel something between 160 to 180 Watts a 360 Watts for the two panels combined gives me about 90 percent of that rated output typically I expect 80 to 90 percent in these solar panels so these panels are achieving what they say they will achieve which is a good result for this panel so I wouldn't be surprised in the middle of summer if I was able to get even more power out of these two panels the only two questions I have that I really haven't answered yet are first how strong are these grommets and then second how strong is this tape on the back of the solar panel because if you're going to use this for something where you're going fast or you have those extreme wind conditions like we spoke about earlier I wouldn't want this thing to blow away what I'm going to do now is test the strength of one of these rivets by hanging away from it and just seeing how long it takes to break to test the grommet I'm going to tie this 550 cord to a key ring that I already have attached to the solar panel then I'm going to hang various weights from this 550 cord to see how much weight this grommet can handle I've secured the other end with a square knot that way this won't slip As I Hang the weight from it the first way I'm going to try is a 15 pound weight so let's see if the 15 pound weight rips out the grommet very minimal flexing so I don't think that's a big enough weight now I'm going to add a 10 pound weight to the mix and see if that rips so that's 25 pounds let's add 10 more pounds and see what happens 35 pounds nothing now I've got another 15 pounder that grommet is just barely starting the flex under this weight so I have 15 30 40 50 pounds hanging from this thing that solar panel is going nowhere well I did get up to 50 pounds before I decided that it was no longer safe to continue hanging weights from this in my living room so there's eight of these grommets going around the panel you could expect this thing to hold up to 400 pounds of pressure at a minimum there is minimal signs of straining this grommet so I believe the grommet could have held much more weight than just the 50 pounds that I tested so this solar panel so far seems flexible durable it handled the throw test it handled the weight test I'm sure it will stand up to be mounted on a roof of a vehicle on the roof of a boat something that is exposed to high winds and a lot of shearing forces I don't have anything set up to test the tape in this video but I do know that some folks out there have those mounted on their campers and they drive around with them all the time so I think that the limiting factor for mounting those panels will be the surface that you're mounting to as the surface clean does it have paint on it paint the vehicle with one of these solar panels taped to it the paint might just peel right off of the vehicle so I would go for a clean prepped surface when you're mounting those taped panels and you shouldn't have a problem I did get about 180 watts per panel which is really good for a 200 watt rated panel in the literature they claim they will get plus or minus five percent so I wouldn't be surprised if I even got around 200 watts in a more ideal lighting condition the taped panel came in at 7.05 pounds and the drilled panel came in at 6.39 pounds so there's about a half of a pound of difference in weight which is pretty much the weight of the tape on the tape solar panel you could possibly scratch them I didn't scratch them in my testing and I didn't exactly try to not scratch them so I'm satisfied with that result so I would put them somewhere where you don't have a lot of friction or debris breaking them check the link in the description for the current price they are currently listed at 579 dollars per panel which for me is on the high side but what you are paying for is that flexibility to put this on something like that Teardrop trailer that has that rounded surface and you don't want a flat panel on the top of that thanks for watching and help me recharge the channel by subscribing and I'll see you in my next video foreign [Music] ...
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