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in today's video we're going to be testing and comparing the top four best-selling amazon.com solar panels these are all rated for 100 watts each in their 12-volt solar panels but is there a difference in output or quality of materials a lot of people don't know and a lot of these are priced the same and they have the same reviews so what I did is I bought these with my own cash directly from Amazon because as a youtuber if I ask a company to send me products they usually send me their best performing products but these are directly from the Amazon warehouse which will allow us to compare these panels accurately so on the right we have our energy 100 watt then we have an HQ ST 100 watt rich solar black solar panel and then the new power 100 watt they're actually pretty different and I think you guys will really like this video and it could really save you some money in time so in this video first we're going to talk about the packaging that came in we're gonna talk about the quality of materials that they use and then at the very end we're gonna test the output of each individual solar panel so yeah let's get started let's compare the packaging of these for solar panels first we have the new power and it has a foam all over the place it's on the rails it's on the glass it's packaged really well with a thick box next we have the Rena G again it was packaged properly you have foam corners there's lots of space on the sides in the front of the panel they did a good job with the rich solar panel the black one there is no protection on the glass there's no protection on the rails there's just a piece of cardboard right here in that sit and we have cardboard corners just for the edges but that's not much protection at all and the HQs t has foam on the glass in the front but the rails are completely exposed HQs t enriched solar had the least packaging and i could see these game broken especially the rich solar there is no protection on the glass but the renergie and the new power panel had the best packaging let's do a quick size comparison of these four solar panels you will notice that the new power and the rich solar are much larger than the HQs t in their energy they are wider and they are taller which is not good if you go over here to the renergie and HQs t they are the same height or length of rail and also the same exact width you'll also notice that these rails look pretty much identical and the only difference is HQ st has more mounting hole variation on the corners the other mounting holes are the same like that one and then there's a screw for mounting your ground line and then we have another mounting hole but at the corner of the HQ st you have all of these holes drilled out and that's really good now let's compare it to the larger solar panels that have less holes you only have one right here one right here the ground hole right here and then this on both solar panels isn't that crazy so the HQ st is definitely the winner when it comes to the rails but you can tell that all of these manufacturers must be buying these from the same exact factory because they are very similar the new power has its own rails it seems like but this rail is skinnier than this one in this one in this one that's what I do not like about that when it comes to rails on solar panels you want it to be very thick and strong in some of the house solar panels are double walled and those are super strong but this is kind of weak I do not like that let's compare the diode boxes and the wires that they come with they all look pretty good but they're cheap Chinese and some four connectors you can tell by how shiny they are the quality of crap plastic these have silicon insulation this is more of a welding wire these are just traditional UV lines nothing special I did notice that these the HQs T is pretty much a clone of the Rena G I mean they have the same diode box to does it say the same thing yeah it says forward electronics forward electronics it's pretty much a clone over here though this looks cheap you will notice that this diode box on the ridge solar panel is a little crooked can you see that it just doesn't look like it lines up as well as these ones over here this is also a very cheap Chinese one so yeah HQ s T and R energy are the clear winners when it comes to diode boxes crazy about this is the new Power had the best packaging but there's a lot of things that I don't like I mean it shouldn't be this size for its power output rating and the rails are small now let's compare the front of these solar panels you will notice that these solar cells are spaced further apart from each other than these ones these ones are very close and I think that's why these are so small form-factor wise is because look how big this diamond is and this white line is compared to this one these solar cells are very close to each other so they can make the solar panels smaller I mean look at the difference between these two and there's also some variation on the front of these solar cells you will notice that we have two wires going across each cell on this one we have four wires going across each cell on this one and then this one has five wires and this is identical to this one and honestly look at these two solar panels you guys the HQs t and their energy are practically identical if you look at the wire arrangement the cell arrangement the spacing it's almost as if our energy just put their label in there I mean these panels are identical front in back it's interesting also as these cells are what I would see on an older monocrystalline usually with the newer ones they look like this and they're pushed close together on older panels I used to work with this is the arrangement and this is kind of what it looked like but what's interesting is that HQ s T and the renergie have different open circuit voltages so it will be very interesting when we connect it to my little power meter to see if there's any variation in output let's check this out this is my new solar panel test station been tested the output of these two solar panels are energy in the HQs t but I checked the open circuit voltage and on their data sheets it says that they're different but I just tested them and they are exactly the same the same exact voltage guys can tell we're starting to figure out that these panels are identical but we will test the output we will see if it's different so how we're gonna test the output of these solar panels I have a lithium iron phosphate battery with a 40 amp MPPT I also have my cell balancer to check the balance of these cells while I'm discharging and charging we have this as a load for this battery underneath these panels they have the same ventilation also the gauge of wire that I connected this all with is identical and the length of wire is identical also this is all copper wire which is oxygen free copper and everything as high as quality components possible you may be asking how are we going to figure out how much each panel produces because if they're all in parallel and they have slightly different voltage it could mess up our readings and I'm glad you guys thought about that because I'm sure the comments section will have that if I didn't mention it so first we have a watt meter connected to each panel and we're going to plug it directly into the MPPT I did some resistive loads with a converter and some resistors and I found that I couldn't get nearly as much power as when it was connected directly to this MPPT so that will be the most accurate way to determine how much power each one produces now we're gonna test the output of these solar panels by once you guys to understand that these have been sitting in the Sun for the same amount of time if one of the panel's was colder than the other ones it could possibly produce more power so I've let them sit in the Sun and they have the same amount of ventilation in the back so this should be a very accurate assessment of solar power output from each panel first panel that's going to be tested as the renergie next is the HQs t then we have rich solar and then new power now we have a watt meter connected between the solar panel and the MPP T and we'll see how much power it produces the first one will be the Rena G and after about five minutes of watching the output of the Rena G we have between seventy five point three and seventy five point five watts now we're going to connect the HQs T no way you guys it's producing seventy five point four to seventy five point five watts that literally means that the Rena G and the HQs T are pretty much the same exact panel so these two panels produce the same amount of power now let's test the rich solar and the new power and as you guys can notice the rich solar solar panel is black so it might run at a higher temperature and the efficiency could drop so let's find out so get this guys the rich solar panel is actually producing eighty one point seven watts that's more than HQs T and more than the renergie eighty one point seven eighty one point five that is so interesting now let's plug in the new power and the new power solar panel is producing 81.6 81.5 eighty one point eight eighty one point five so around the same is the rich solar panel so even though these are all 100 watt solar panels the large ones produce more power and these two are pretty much clones of each other so which panels should you guys actually buy I thought that because the large panels were of cheaper quality and they are larger and less efficient for their size I would avoid those two panels I would not buy the rich solar and I would not buy the new power so that leaves us with our energy and the HQs tea so which panel should you buy they are practically identical but the HQs tea is cheaper so I looked at the warranty for both companies Rena G and HQs tea have the exact same warranty for their 100 watt panel they have a 25-year power output warranty and then they have a five-year material and workmanship warranty so when it comes down to it which one would I buy I would be buying the HQs tea and there's an advantage that the HQs tea has that the renergie doesn't and it's those mounting hole variation on the corners so I think HQs T won this competition if you guys disagree with me let me know below but I think it's a pretty clear-cut winner I've also bought some other solar panels from HQ st and they work great and usually you'll save about thirty dollars for each panel by buying it from HQ st this isn't sponsored this is not affiliated I will have Amazon links below for all of these panels but my recommendation comes from directly testing these panels so I hope you guys found this video useful and yeah HQs T is awesome I'm gonna be buying those panels in the future if you guys think there's a panel that outperforms all of these panels and you want me to know about it please let me know in the comment section below and I will check it out so thank you guys so much for watching this video and I'll talk to you later bye ...
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