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hey everybody I just got this brand new 450 W portable panel from zup W and I'm really excited to see how it performs so let's go ahead and get this thing unboxed see how long it takes to set up and then we'll do some testing now I like that this solar panel comes with this carrying case um it does seem to have kind of some thick fabric to it I think it'll protect the solar panel but let's go ahead and get it out okay nice and easy so far oh it does have padding on the front and back ooh that's light uh they say it's about 27 lb so not too bad um there are some straps here let's go Ahad and undo those and then that should allow it to flip out let's get all the legs at the same height here these are adjustable so you can you can adjust the legs to be higher or shorter but uh yeah sweet so here's a closer look at the solar panel that's set up there are four individual panels all wired together and then each one has its own kickstand which helps it set up pretty straight like I said they are adjustable I do like that it has these bumpers on the corner you can see that each panel has those bumpers and then you have two of these carrying Handles in the middle let's take a closer look at the solar cells see what technology it's using now you'll notice that this uses an etfe coating this is ip68 waterproof rated now as for the actual cells they use type end cells with 16 bus bars and you'll notice they are also chopped into thirds so these are third cut cells and that tends to help with partial shading performance now in order to get Peak power it's important that you angle the solar panel properly and I want to use the kickstands to do that we're just past winter solstice meaning that we have to have the solar panel as steep as possible so you can see I have these legs straight up and down give it the steepest angle now if we do the can trick here you can see that even with the solar panel at the steepest angle it's still not quite steep enough to get Ideal Power we'd want to see somewhere around there to completely get rid of the Shadow but we'll see how much power we're getting with it angled with the kickstands now on the back of the solar panel for your output you have mc4 connections and in the zipped pouch you actually get this mc4 extension cable super heavy duty I like the quality of that and then you also have these adapters that are available too so you get xt60 Anderson 7909 and 8020 for a variety of different Power stations now before connecting up the solar panel to my power station I wanted to check the voltage open circuit we're sitting at 47.1 and in the owner's manual it states that the voltage open circuit should be 45.9 it is a bit cold today so voltage is just a little bit higher so I've just connected the solar panel into the power station this is the ecoflow Delta 3+ and if you look at the screen we are showing 468 Watts input 69 kind of jumping around a little bit but look at that guys we are getting over the r ated power this is rated for 450 W now in the next test I want to see how these solar panels are wired together the main mc4 connection is on that far panel and then there's a series of jumper cables between each one of these so I want to check the amperage flowing through each one are we going to see 2.5 amps or are we going to see 10 amps that will tell us if these are wired in series or parallel so with my clamp meter on one of these wires I'm showing about 2.6 to 2.7 amps flowing through it so these do appear to be wired together in parallel now just to confirm I'm measuring the next connection down and we are seeing double the amperage so yes they are paired up in parallel for a total of around 10 to 11 amps now before jumping into any other test on the solar panel like the partial shading test I want to talk about the price of this solar panel because I think it's actually really good and if you look on their website or at least on Amazon where it's for sale it's priced at $59 with a $30 coupon bringing the price down to around $479 $ or about $16 per watt now if you compare that to any other brand of portable solar panel you know the anchor ones the blue Edy ones things like that you're talking about $2 to $3 per watt and this is only $1 per watt and it's using the N type solar cells with the 16 bus bars and the build quality is actually very impressive I really like the build quality this might be my new favorite 400 W folding solar panel but we still have to do the partial shading test so let's do that next so I have this ladder here casting its shadow on the final solar panel if you remember the power kind of starts down there they're all wired in parallel and then the output is on this one we were getting 465 WTS before what do we get now so with the ladder shading that one panel we are getting 393 Watts so yes we are still getting power from three of the other solar panels and still a little bit of power on this last one now in the next test I've moved the ladder over so it's casting its shadow on two of these solar panels now obviously solar panels are going to get the most power when you don't have any shade on them but how does it perform if you have shade on two of the solar panels so if you look at the screen here we're getting right around 300 watts so 299 to 300 watts so still very good performance with shadows on two of those solar panels now I almost failed to mention another accessory that's included with this 450 W panel and it's actually these leg Stakes so I moved the panel here to the grass to demonstrate anchoring down the solar panel with these included Stakes so in case you have some sort of wind you can actually keep it from blowing over now here's a closer look at one of those Stakes you do get four of these in the bag you get this plastic plate that slides on to give it more surface area at the bottom of the steak it is sharpened and they do seem very stiff now these are designed to go over the kickstand like this and then you push them in the ground however right now because it's been so cold the ground is completely Frozen so I can only get this in about an inch in the ground so best use case for these steaks is going to be in the fall this spring or in the summer when the ground is not frozen so now I'm just curious how does the renig 400 wat suitcase stand up against the ZW 450 W solar panel the design is very similar on each of these they both have the Metal Frames they both have the fiberglass backer board um this one has an older solar cell design because the zpw uses the end type solar cells um you know this is only rated at 400 WTS but the ZW puts out more power and possibly is less expensive let's find out so I've lined up both of the solar panels so they're equal on that Far Side you can see the zp Ws just a little bit taller and then coming down to this end I'd say the ZW is about 8 to 10 in wider so it is a larger solar panel they both have the plastic bumpers and handles and then looking at the actual cases the ZW case is padded it has a much thicker Fabric and then the renogy is just a thinner fabric with no padding so let's see how these actually perform I'm going to let the Renegy solar panel warm up a bit and then we'll test it out so I've just finished setting up the reny 400 wat suitcase and you'll notice right away that it's a bit flatter and that's because the kickstands aren't quite as tall if the kickstands were taller you'd be able to see it at a steeper angle and so in the winter months um you aren't going to see quite as much power using the kickstand so let's see what we're getting on the Delta 3 plus so we're seeing about 338 to 339 Watts input from the Renegy 400 W solar panel now guys I understand that I'm testing this solar panel later in the day than when I tested this solar panel so what I'm thinking right now is I've angled up this solar panel to be steeper we're going to quickly test this we're going to move it out of the way and then we'll test that solar panel one more time just to see the power difference so let's see what this panel's getting at the steeper angle so as we've adjusted the angle to be steeper we're getting 354 to 355 Watts input just a little bit more so almost 30 WTS more as the solar panel is aimed better at the sun now I've quickly moved the renig 400 W solar panel and set up the ZW 450 so let's see how the power compares to what we were seeing before so before we were seeing about 468 watts and now we're seeing about 455 so the power has dropped down but we are still seeing quite a bit more power from this solar panel now I'm pretty surprised that we're still getting full rated power from this solar panel even though it's not angled perfectly at the sun anymore you can see the shadow here it's just really off to the side still getting full power output and that just tells you how much the technology is improving in these portable solar panels so um the price used to be really really high on these and now we can see it's coming down I really like these hybrid frame designs so the fiberglass backer and the lightweight metal frame with the kickstands they fold up really small so comparing both these solar panels you can see they're both around $500 but this one here gives you you about 120 W more power output so very impressive results guys let me know what you think about the zup W 450 down in the comment section I don't even know how to say that it's like zp w so I guess that's what I'm calling it what would you guys call it so after the testing today I think I found my new favorite 400 W folding solar panel now I appreciate ZW sending this out for the testing video hopefully you guys can see that the results were pretty clear for themselves that this definitely produces more power for the same price as other options that are currently available now I am curious to see how this does in the high temperatures because solar panels will usually put out less power as they get hotter but this does have the newer end type solar cells so they are supposed to do better in high heat so what I'm thinking is that I'll retest both of these solar panels and maybe any other you know New 400 W rigid frame solar panels that I get like this this kind of hybrid design later in the year when it's super hot if you guys want to see that throw a comment down below now guys thank you so much for watching this video I will include the link to this solar panel down in the video description if you guys are interested in learning more thanks for checking out the video we'll see you guys in the next one ...
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