Description
- ▶【Huge Power to Output】: ALLPOWERS 200W portable solar panel kit is made from US, up to 22% efficiency and 1/3 lighter than the same power of solar silicon. 200W Output can provide more power to your devices and charge it faster.
- ▶【36.6V Compatible with Most Solar Generators】: ALLPOWERS 36.6V200W foldable solar panel is compatible with most portable power station on the market. The portable solar panel kit includes different sizes of connectors for portable solar generator( solar to xt60 /solar to DC ).
- ▶【Waterproof, Durable and safe】: The foldable solar panel 200W constructed with durable and waterproof IP66 nylon and adjustable bracket. It can help your devices receive the most effective sunlight safely.
- ▶【Foldable & Portable】: Folded size only 25.6×20.3×2.4inch,13.9lb, portable solar panel 200W is great for traveling the without electricity and won’t take up much room in your bag. ALLPOWERS foldable solar charger features solar connector output(25A max), providing endless power for power station in camping, outdoor, garden, motorhome, and caravan under the sun.
- ▶【Package Contents】: ALLPOWERS 200W foldable solar panel, solar to DC5.5×2.5mm cable, solar to xt60 cable, DC 8mm adapter, DC 3.5×1.35mm cable, DC 5.5×2.1mm cable, instruction manual
MrChubs420 –
I get about 110 watts maybe a bit more out of this all powers on bright sunny day. So not great but ok. I got the 200 watt solar panel half off. So I can’t complain. I certainly would not spend 400$ on it! Folds up nice and fairly small. Holds the adapter bits in pocket. Not bad, not great but for 200$ it’s worth it. Not at all waterproof. Renogy 100 watt cost about 120$ quite water resistant, almost waterproof and it puts out about 60 watts. I have a couple Jackery panels and they were 300$ for an 80 watt, fully waterproof and puts out about 70 to 74 watts. The 100 watt Jackery solar saga cost almost 400$ and puts out about 90 watts. I would buy the 80 watt Jackery and renogy again. Bang for your buck, output watts and water resistant factors. Not as small or foldable though. For the money of my most expensive ones I sure wouldn’t want to expose them to rain very often. For products that have to be used outside, they should be waterproof or fairly water resistant, in my opinion. Sucks having to babysit your panels all day. Any increment weather or chance of rain I leave the Jackery 80 and renogy out no worries.
Tyler –
No longer pulls consistent amperage after using it two times. I’ll get voltage but no amps. Tested at the panel. Either a bad controller or failed diodes. Regardless, I don’t recommend buying it.
NiteForce9 –
I have the Allpowers 140 watt solar panel that is similar in design to this 200 watt panel. the major differences other than output power, is the build quality. The 200 watt panel is more rigid when setup the panel does not sag or droop nearly as much as the 140 watt when using the kick stand legs. Those legs are also different, on this panel the legs are slimmer and they snap off completely if you don’t want to use them. I don’t think I’ve used them correctly yet but I did use them while this panel charged my power station and they held fine on my lawn. 2 things to note: first, this is purely a solar panel, it has to be attached to something to be useful, it has no built in charging ports for any USB outputs, it must be connected to a compatible power station, charge controller, or other similar device to be useful. The Second thing to note is that the cables are short, and are unlikely to be long enough to position the panel to catch the best sun and to connect to a device that is not very portable. I use 2 of these along with one 140 watt panel all connected in parallel in a mini “solar farm” I had no issues with this setup. I did use a multi meter to check the output and found that the panel was producing almost exactly the power it was rated to produce, of course, like all solar panels, when there is a load the output power drops so it is unlikely that they will produce 200 watts of power while doing actual work. This rated vs actual usable power is extremely common with solar panels and is not an indication of any mis-leading or false advertising. Solar panels are rated under very specific conditions that are unlikely to happen in real world use, but this rating method makes it easier to compare and shop among different brands and sizes. I don’t use panels like these in series because there is more potential to damage the panels when used in series. Also, Allpowers recommends using no more than 3 of these when connecting in parallel. Overall, I like this portable solar panel, it’s just a simple portable folding solar panel and it works, I’ll likely buy one more in the future to complete my mini solar farm.
George –
Panels, especially folding ones, never meet my expectations as far as output, until I realized REAL WORLD output and RATED POWER are two different things. This applies to ALL PV (Solar) PANELS not just All Power. More below but first the overall impression.
ALL POWER comes with a good variety of useful accessories and the design is good, quality is very good for price. I got it for $239. That is a good price compared to other brands that may cost $400-$800. Are the other brands better? IDK? You would expect more for the price, but not necessarily. The fold out kickstands works well. I like how they have a pocked for the panel output cables and accessories YES the power cables leads are short which is fine with me, so the cables can store in pocket…. They use high quality cable and connectors. I have extension power cables so my devices are in the sade… panel in sun.
RATED POWER – The big variable besides sunlight hitting the panel, no shade even just a corner kills output, aiming the panel at sun, how hot the panel, is what is the panel connected to. What are you trying to power (Load/Drain). Typically it is a battery you are charging to provide power to the devices you want to power. More accurately it is a BATTERY CHARGER or battery controller you connect the panel to. Sometimes those are a discreate device, other times integrated in a POWER STATION with the battery. Not all controllers love DC power direct from a PV (Photovoltaic) Solar Panel. Some battery charging controllers are optimized for one solar panels but may not be optimal for another brand of solar panel. Does not mean the panel is bad, just mis-matched.
Spoiler Alert, ALL POWER does meet it’s rating 200W, but for my actual usage I could only extract about 125W for my application. This is normal. I compared All Power to two 100W high end ridged panels (big and heavy) in parallel, they do the same thing in my application. Although the ridged panels consistently had about 10% to 12% more Real World output. Not a big deal. The point being both panels did not make 200W in my application… but both tested to their rated 200W.
RATED POWER… How to measure. In strong full sunlight mid day w/ panels angled right at sun, using a volt meter check open voltage. This is with no device connected. You will see 20V give or take. Then check shorted amps, with an Amp meter able to measure at least 12 Amps DC (you can do this in series with meter leads or clamp on DC Amp Meter). I measured 20V open and 10.18Amps Short. (NOTE WHEN YOU SHORT THE + and – YOU WILL GET A SPARK. IT IS OK). ALL POWER, 203.4 Watts under the conditions it was tested under… However when connected to REAL WORLD load the actual power it is normal to get less Wattage due to mismatch with controller and that solar panel design. I DO NOT KNOW if $800 panel similarly rated will do much better. I would hope so, but who knows.
My application is a 500W POWER STATION to run a 12V Frig/Freeze when camping. The Frig in moderate outside temps can run 24 hours on the Power station, about 24Watts an hour. The charge controller in my power station LIKES 24V, and limits charging to 125 watts (to protect the internal batteries). Voltage can be from 12v to 30v but anything under 20 volts the charging drops off. I tried to charge the power station off car’s 12v jack (13-14v) and it was pathetic. So it is not all the Solar panels fault. Most panels open circuit make 20 volts, but under load the volts drop to 14-17 volts… this is normal and some charging controllers don’t like lower voltages. *That is why I use a boost converter to charge my Power Station from Solar panels.*
TIP I USE A BOOST (bucking type) Converter to get voltage to 24V regardless of input voltage (output from panels). The panels are going to be well below their OPEN voltage, often in 15v-17v range. Better more advanced (expensive) power stations may be more flexible. So my charger sees 24 volts and at what ever the current (Amps) are and charges most efficiently. If there are clouds and panel drops too low the booster drops out and you are no longer charging. It really is great in that with low morning or late afternoon light it continues to charge without dropping off as it does when panels are directly connected to Pwr Station.
My Renogy 2x 100W panels behave in a similar way with this power station as the All Power panel. Some combination of power station and panels do better than others.
SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON WITH ALL POWER (portable folding) and TWO Ridged 100W Renogy panels in parallel. The Renogy panels were better, typically 12% give or take, about 9 to 12 watts more. This is to be expected being ridged panels. But ALL POWER surprised me and did better than I thought. I had other 200W folding panels and they could only muster 80W… All power was doing 117W.
NOTE One advantage of having two 100W panels (Renogy) is you can put them in series and double voltage and cut Amps in half saving “IR” loss. The HIGHER VOLTS the LOWER AMPS for same POWER (watts). This means less loss over extension cable. I have long extensions (V x Amps = Watts). This is why the power grid bring power to your home is very high volts like 100,000 volts, but AC. I have another converter or BUCK converter to take the 38volts from the Renogy panels in series and drop down to 24 Watts (ideal volts for my Pwr Station controller). My power station is limited to 30V max. I can not run the two panels in series directly. So I have a BOOST converter and a BUCK (or drop down) converter.
Note you can run to ALL POWERS in parallel and get more power (double).
SIZE MATTERS… Clearly stored the ALL POWER is a winner. It is about 25″ x 20″ folded and fairly thin. However unfolded it is 25″ x 80″ = 2000 sq-in or 13.8 sq-ft it is large…. The ridged Renogy 100W panels size are 41″x 20″ = 820 sq-in each, 1640 sq-in for two, or 11.4 sq-ft. However when the two Renogy panels are stored in their cardboard shipping box, it is awkward and heavy to move. The Renogy panels are about 1.5 inch thick, so two in packing box is about 5″ deep. The thickness of the All Power panels are thin. However not too thin they are too floppy. The All Power I think is about 10 lbs less than th ridged Renogy. Add a handle, less weight, thin compact the All Power is easy to move around.. However folded out the ALL POWER IS BIG… The KICK Stand is nice. In wind take care it does not blow down or away.
People expect to ALWAYS to get rated power no matter what. That is of course not possible. In fact it is unlikely you will ever get more than 50%-70% unless everything is optimal. Besides the mismatch between battery charger I explored above, obviously sunlight can be filtered (cloudy), panels not ideally aimed at sun, hot temperatures, all produce less power than rated. However if testing the panels under standard testing criteria, they produce rated power, current, volts. However real world is not test conditions. ALL PANELS DO THE SAME THING.
I need to generate about 500 watts per day to keep my good sized portable 12V DC refrigerator/freezer running by charging the battery station fully before sunset. I can expect to make that over a 8-10 hr sunny day easy and then some. Overnight, say 12 hours my Frig uses about 250 watts. I need to keep the Rrig running and charging battery (250W + 250W = 500W) throughout the day before nightfall. 200Watt panels that make 120W to 140W real world with no clouds is plenty. However if cloudy more panel may make the difference. I tried to lay them flat on roof luggage rack. It was marginal. Angling them makes a huge difference. Also on marginal day bigger or more capacity panels helps a lot. I found a sweet spot for my camping Frig, but you never can have too much power. I would do well to get more panels and1000W power stations but price and weight goes up significantly. Right now I am good enough and still have room to spare for charging phones.
HOT DAYS AND 12V FRIG. Last time I was camping a full week it was mid 90’s, I was using much more power (Frig running much longer due to not getting to set temp during peak temp of day). I had to run the Regurgitator at 38F verses 32F so it ran a little less. Drinks are still cold at 38F, especially when it is in the high 90’s. Also even though set at 38F it is colder at bottom of Frig is close to 32F. Guess where the beer went?
Antnony Cilluffo –
Wilkes very good supports her a little flimsy
Keewatinbob –
first couple of weeks, panel produced between 140 to 160 Watts, and then it just kept going down. Now its at 100 Watts maximum. Gonna rip it open and see what the build is actually like in there. From other posts it sounds like it is put together by 5 year olds with glue guns. DON’T BUY!!!!
luke –
This is a great portable solar panel system for my Bluetti power station. I was lucky enough to get this at a fantastic price on sale. Very good quality. Easy to use. Perfect for what I needed!
MrChubs420 –
Works amazing. Charges things pretty quick with the 200 watt output power. Good bang for your buck and very potable and light weight. Highly recommend.
Annmarie…happy customer –
200 w nominal folding power that is compact and easy to transport.
My primary application is for a demonstration kit to charge e-bike batteries (36 & 48 V) with a programmable boost MPPT charge controller. The panels arrived on-time and in perfect condition. A quick unfold of the panels and legs and unzip of the cable pocket and they were good to go. The output was about what I expected and others reported from the poly panels. They performed well in bright sun on a hot day ~ 160 watts and also fared well on a overcast day. Avoid partial shading as this quickly lowers the output. I would have given 5 stars but for one simple reason. The MC4 connector cables that are wired to the panel output are really way too short 🙁 I work with solar and could quickly add some extensions – but I do feel that for panels like these the minimum cable length should be at least 2 meters long.
The materials seem adequate, the legs are not super sturdy but they did work OK – including staying put in some light-moderate wind. I purchased this set on sale so overall a great little unit that is perfect for my application and a good value. Would buy again.
Pattywack –
My sister has this panel and it works great. Lightweight and power up her power station well. My husband ran his cpap machine on her set up and now we’ll have our own.