RICH SOLAR60 Watt 12 Volt Portable Solar Panel (60W Premium)

Edit: June 2, 2024 purchased another one. This thing is awesome.Seems very durable, and has been a joy to use. I plan on buying another one soon. I'm using it with a small Bluetti, and it works very well.

The plugs that connect wires are great and strong compared to other solar panels highly recommend I chose 60 watt for a single marine battery the highest power level battery I could find at a auto parts store more power rated then the Walmart batteries sold .. I don't use a charge controller sense reviews shows they can fail and blow up a battery .. so I got me a battery hand held tester to see how many volts it's at .. name of it is AWBlIN .. sold on Amazon . Com .. called AUTO tester DC 3 -60V .... Great reviews and it works great built solid .. others had bad reviews made to cheaply

So back at the end of April I decided to purchase four of these 100 watt solar panels with the kickstand. The price was excellent I hope they keep the price as low as it is right now. So far I'm only using two for a total of 200 Watts as you can see in the pictures and they are performing flawlessly they are putting out165 Watts and I started charging my solar generator at around 9:30 in the morning. It is now 11:30 in the morning and they are still putting out a respectable 161one Watts. I wish they would sell individual 200 w panels with kickstands also, and as small as these 100 watt panels. Anyways go ahead and purchase them you will not be disappointed. Thank you Rich Solar!

A little pricey but served me well when our power went out. Good construction and good materials.

The media could not be loaded.  Bought the RICH SOLAR x300 Power station and the RICH SOLAR 100 Watt 12 Volt Portable Monocrystalline Solar Panel to take on a long tent camping trip with the family. Primary purpose was to minimize the need for disposable batteries by charging rechargeable AA's, as well all of our lithium-ion powered electronics. Also used it for a USB fan. I'll be using the same text for both reviews, so bare with me if parts don't apply to the product you're looking to buy.We spent nights in the Badlands and in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I left the solar panel outside at all times and brought the cables into the tent through the tent's power cable sleeve and connected it to the power station. In the baking hot sun of the badlands, the 100W solar panel provided more power than I could use. Even when recharging smaller li-ion backup batteries through the power station, the solar panel was able to keep up. The solar panel didn't get too much weather exposure, outside of the sun on most days and a couple storm nights. One night in the badlands, we had no rain but 30-45 mph winds. Solar panel stayed in its spot, still angled with the kickstand. Mind you, we were somewhat protected by a berm, but the winds were still strong and quite loud in the tent. Kicked up a lot of dust, solar panel still maintained good efficiency the next day with a light dusting on it. In the Black Hills, we got rain and the solar panel handled it well, as expected. That said, the shade of the pine trees in the black hills reduced our power input by a lot and after a few days of use my battery was at half charge, since the panels weren't getting enough direct sunlight during the day. Woulda been easily solved by moving it to a sunnier spot.The power station functioned well for me, no issues there. The carrying bag it came with is great. The videos and photos I took give you a bit of an idea what the display and size is like. Be aware that you need to "enable" the outlets you want to use. For example, to use the USB outlets, you need to hit the USB button. Otherwise they're switched off and won't supply power. This is a great feature, as you don't have to unplug everything that draws power when you leave the area. Just hit the switch! Useful for fans and items that leech power, even when not under full load. The power station has cooling fans in it that stay off when its cool, and come on when it needs to cool the internals. At least, that's what I gathered from using it. In the hot badlands, it ran the fans a lot. Black hills, they rarely came on. The fans aren't loud, barely noticeable actually.Positives:- In short, it does what its supposed to and didn't fail me. I liked the display and how the inputs providing power and outputs supplying it only light up when there's actually power being supplied.- Good customer service- Power station carrying case is nice and the supplied cables fit in perfectly.Negatives:- Solar panel was missing 2 of the 4 corner protectors. Rich solar sent them out without issue when contacted.- The shipping box is pretty basic. Corners are thinly padded, but the front and back (aka the majority of the surface area) have no protection. The package arrived with the outer shipping box, and the inner sales box, both punctured with a maybe 4 inch diameter gaping hole. Fortunately, the damage went into the empty cavity at the rear of the panel, and didn't seem to hit the panel itself. If it had hit in the front, I probably would've needed a replacement and wouldn't have had time to receive one before my trip.- The solar panel uses an Anderson connector. The power station doesn't come with an Anderson adapter for the DC input, it comes with MC4, 12V car, and a standard AC input plug. Rich Solar will send this out to you for free if you ask, but the extra step caused a lot of extra stress...not because of Rich Solar necessarily, but it took a while to get the item shipped out to me. It was going to arrive the day before I left on my trip...and then the postal service misplaced it. I went to the sorting area the next day when the worker was there and was able to find it myself at the bottom of a bag. It all worked out, but I thought I was going to have to leave with a solar panel and a power station that wouldn't work together. Woulda been a bummer! (Note: Some of Rich Solar's other solar panels seem to come with MC4, so know which one you're getting).

i first used 100w flex panels for a couple years, then used a renogy 100w suitcase panel for a couple years, and now this 100w 1 piece panel with a kickstand to power my campervan for the last year. if you are trying to decide between these three styles, buy this panel!the flex panels were great- until they were not. they weigh nothing and take up no space on a big flat protected surface- i stored them right inside the window frame of my campervan. 43x22x.1. BUT i went through 5 of them over 2 1/2 years. one sailed away when it got snatched right out of my hands in a sudden gust of wind. one more also suffered a wind-related fate, one inexplicably delaminated, and one just quit working out of the blue. and i spent more than a little time and money trying to come up with various frames for these so i could set them up at an angle on the ground without them blowing away. that was fun, and successful, but a job none the less.the renogy suitcase was a workhorse, is still working to this day as a part of my kid's stationary offgrid setup. BUT it's two 50w metal framed panels hinged together, with a ~very~ durable case, making the whole thing heavy to haul in and out, and it takes up a lot of space when stored. the panel itself, without the case, was 20x27x3 folded and weighed 27 pounds, for 100 watts of power.but the bad part of the renogy suitcase was the bizarrely complicated and fragile kickstand. it needs constant attention. rocks and dirt get stuck in the hollow slide portion, preventing deployment. the nuts holding it to the frame and to itself ~constantly~ loosen, are odd size and shape, and are so close to the frame that no tool fits in to tighten them. i worried all the time that this was the last time the legs might work.enter this panel. this is the only one i could find on amazon like it: one solid panel with a one piece kickstand. at 36x26x1, it needs a longer storage space than the renogy, but only an inch thick versus 3. and a shorter storage space than the flex panels. at 17 pounds, it's TEN WHOLE POUNDS LIGHTER than the same 100 watts for the renogy suitcase. and the best part: this kickstand ROCKS. one piece, no hinges, no slides, no screwing it open and closed, no hollow dirt collector slider. it just swings open and done. every portable solar panel should come with these- if you don't need it, two screws and it's off. the stand is solid enough to set a good sized rock on the cross piece to keep it from dancing away in the windy desert. whoever designed the kickstand on this used the golden rule: KISS.

Bought this to pair with the X300, figured since they were the same brand there wouldn't be an issue with plugs matching. Be prepared to cobble some stuff together to get it to work. That's what we're going to have to do for our first camping trip this weekend