hello hello thanks for tuning in all right today i wanted to show you guys something that i thought
was pretty cool it was a good price and if you can grab them at the price that i got it it'd probably
be pretty good this is the Renogy 400 watt premium kit I'm not associated with Renogy at all
um i bought this out of my own money it was actually a black friday sale
on amazon so it was less than five hundred dollars for four 100 watt panels
um charge controller wires fuses brackets the whole kit was like 465 bucks so the links will
be in the description for each one they're a little bit pricier now but even at that price
if you want to jump into solar this is like the best starter kit to get without an inverter and
a battery in it and then you can choose your own setup after that so i just will go through
everything it's four panels excuse the electrical panel in the back had to change out a fuse
so that's why that cover's open you get four 100 watt panels and they come inside this box here
there's no real padding except for these little guys here
it comes with two panels in each one and each corner has it so there's eight
of these things each corner has one and the glass was facing outside so
I don't know if that was just a flaw or if that's how they pack them but Renogy when you ship these
things you might want to put something in between the glass and face them in so they don't break or
nothing the box was a little ripped up but the panels made it safe so I'm glad
the uh actual paneling looks pretty good the um I mean the solar cells these are half cells
i believe is your 12 volt 100 watt panels but everything looks pretty good looks pretty decent
and then we'll look at the specs here
actually all right hopefully there's not too much wash from the light
just trying to get this in good view and focus as you can see it's a 100 watt rated
panel the open circuit voltage is 22.3 optimum voltage is 18.6 so i guess that's under load
18.6 is pumping into the charge controller not sure um shows that it gets over 5 amps
600 volts is the max system voltage
15 amp fuse so maybe there's a fuse inside the junction box who knows
so overall it looks like a decent panel you got some nice mc4 connectors here
junction box so the connectors are decent they feel good the panel itself is really not that big
maybe three feet or so they're light
i mean you can see here they're really not that big it's a standard like little picnic table
folding table so the panels themselves are not big and you get four of them
and then they also send you a little goodie box here
full of everything with it so let me open the box up
okay this is inside the box that comes with the solar panels
and we'll go through everything that's in here looks like a set of
maybe mc4 connections here i think this is 20 feet
this is 20 foot line
one size have a connector and i think the other side is pre-stripped yeah
so it's pre-stripped and you get a set so that's 20 feet of each cable
this looks like a this is a 40 amp fuse that they're also including
it's decent
so it's 40 amps
nice cover
all right this is a
it's a warranty card
this is their Bluetooth module this gives information off of the charge controller
so this also came in the kit it's a super nice addition
and there is the instruction manual so with that you can download their app I believe and see what
your system is producing in real time and make changes to the charge controller and everything
these are probably the solar panel brackets yeah so what's awesome with this kit is they give you
all of the mounting hardware for the solar brackets or the solar panels sorry these are
brackets you have four each they say energy they feel quality aluminum they feel like aluminum
they're very nice
so you get a whole box of that and that's so you can mount the solar panels to
a rail or wherever you're gonna mount this roof and all that and put that back in there
I don't want to lose anything
it's a Bluetooth module
there's the fuse 20 foot cable and there's the instruction
all right so we have a inline
fuse yeah 10 amp dc fuse 100 or a thousand volts this is a mc4 inline fuse solar system
so
there we go 10 amps 10 by 38 000 volts and it's just an inline fuse
we also have the temperature probe for the batteries this goes to the charge controller as
well so this will regulate the amount of current going to the battery is based on the temperature
of the battery and the chemistry so you have total control over the system
um it can detect faults and shut down the charge control or something happens
in here we have some more wiring this looks like an already pre-terminated positive cable
looks like maybe inverted battery
okay so we got two more cables that are
1 by 10 millimeter squared whatever that means these are probably six six gauge wire maybe
I don't know correct me in the comment if you can tell but these are pre-terminated on one side and
open on the other so this goes into that charge controller and this
maybe goes to the inverter or the batteries who knows have a look at the instructions
so they give you the cables
the mounting brackets everything uh these look like the feet
for the charge controller and as a rover series this one happens to be the 40 amp mppt
all right
there it is
so this is the Renogy rover mppt it's charge controller temperature the Bluetooth battery
load and solar panel it's pretty beefy huge heat sink so this will do like lithium
sealed flooded it does all bad uh battery chemistries and it's mppt charge controller so
there's two types pwm mppt and these are generally the better ones they're more stable produce more
power per se um but yeah overall i think if you're getting into solar or even if you want to expand
and have a little off-grid system um this is the way to go the only thing you're going to
need is an inverter and a battery so that's what we'll be getting next in another video and uh
i think that at the price currently where they're at I think it's like 600 bucks
it's still not bad if you factor in about a hundred dollars
per solar panel so you got four solar pounds that's 400 bucks already and then um
you've got the mppt charge controller which is a 40 amp charge controller
that can run you upwards of 100 that's 500 right there cabling brackets the Bluetooth module
i mean this whole kit is put together at a very attractable price even when it's not on sale
i think regular price is about 7.99 you can catch it on sale at amazon all the time for around 600.
i got it on a black Friday deal for under 500 so that's phenomenal if you can get it um links
are in the description they help the channel guys like I said I'm not associated with Renegy
this is something that we just got out of our own pocket and trying to get a little backup system
going with everything that's going on in the world and this is a great start for anybody that doesn't
know anything I'm not an expert i know a little bit but this is a great starter kit and then
so stay tuned for the battery and inverter videos where we're going to select what battery
and inverter we think is going to be best for this setup and going to flow real well with it
because you don't want to overpower the solar panel with too much battery or vice versa you
want to kind of keep it balanced so overall it's a great kit links in the description
i hope this helps everybody thanks for watching please subscribe