hello hello thanks for tuning in all right today i wanted to do a video on
the harbor freight solar panel this is going to be about the three month update because look in
the instruction manual they said that the panel could degrade by twenty percent over six months
so i wanted to do a review at three months and i got six months if you haven't seen the
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it really helps so it's been up here for a couple months through all weather rain
hot cold the weather's changing now it's about to be october so i'm not sure the exact output we're
gonna get hopefully it's still the same it's about noon so the sun is sitting high in the sky it's
pretty clear skies so i'm gonna hook my power meter to it and put a load on it
and we're gonna see exactly what this panel does i guess see if it's degraded at all
all right the panel's sitting out there with no load and let's see if i can get this in better
view for you guys as you can see there are 22 volts open circuit so the panel's still doing well
with no load on it still producing what it's supposed to and for all fairness i left it dirty
so i'll check it dirty and clean at different angles and we'll see what the wattage is you'll
get a load for this thing okay as you can see it's still drawing in 5.5 amps at 79 watts 14.45 volts
i'm gonna go get a load and put it on here so that it doesn't um shut the charge controller
off but it looks like it's still doing extremely well and performing exactly where it's supposed to
all right we got the trusty coleman 4 amp draw on there we're pulling 77 watts and you see we had a
peak of 82.3 and we are going into the winner so that tells me that this panel is doing good
i'm gonna clean it off now and see if we can get better performance
all right cleaning it didn't do much of anything as you can see let me get
that glare out for you guys there you go still pulling about 77 watts
we had a high amp of 5.6 and change so it's still definitely outputting what it's supposed to
82.3 watts max angle and see if i can get some better wattage here
all right so a little bit of an angle
to compensate for the winter sun uh we're showing around 79 80 volts still i mean
not watts sorry and the amperage is 5.68 which i believe is higher than they specify
and you can see i just got a little box out there just holding it up a little bit more of an angle
but we will leave this out here and this will record all the data we need to record
all right just wanted to show this we are breaking 80 watts
consistently 5.7 amps this is three months of the solar panel totally being out in the weather
and just a cheap charge controller just to charge the little box that i have here let's see 13.2
and we're showing 14 volts going in at 5.7
all right as you can see we're still pumping out over 80 watts 5.72 amps we had a peak of 6.20
let's see where that uh wattage was 85 watts so we're still doing very well we'll leave it
to keep going and see if we get anything higher in the peak it's been going for about let's see
it's been going about an hour and a half
all right it's been out here a few hours as you can see we're still getting in about 76 watts it's
later in the afternoon about 3 30 4 o'clock 85 was the peak 10 amp hours in we're still bringing in
five and a half amps 149 watt hours i'm gonna turn off the load so i can just recharge my battery
and we'll leave the cell phone charging as well
okay we're at the end of the day as you see it's only got about five watts the sun is setting
we had a voltage minimum of 13.1 85.1 was the peak watts
we did 13.78 amp hours in about five hours not bad 193 watt hours
and we had an output of 6.20 amps peak so this shows you that in three months we are actually
still getting over what the manufacturer specified not in wattage but as far as uh peak amp output so
i hope this answers your questions so yes at the three month mark this thing is still going strong
we will check back in at the six month mark thanks for watching please subscribe