【Efficient Performance】The Starter Kit will produce an average of 500Wh of electricity per day (Based on 5 hours of direct sunlight condition). The Cell Efficiency can reach 22%. The bypass diodes ensure that the panel has an excellent performance in a low-light environment and the TPT back sheet dissipates excess heat to ensure smooth output performance.
【Solid Quality】Advanced encapsulation material with multi-layered sheet laminations protects cells from physical damage and distortion, improving cell performance and providing a long service life.
【Smart Function】The Wanderer PWM Charge Controller is compatible with four different types of batteries: Sealed, Gel, Flooded, and Lithium batteries. It also features advanced 4-stage charging (bulk, boost, float, and equalization) to ensure your battery is efficiently and safely charged to 100%.
【Full System Protection】The Wanderer PWM Charge Controller has a number of built-in protections to safeguard your systems, such as reverse polarity protection, battery overcharging protection, overload protection, and short circuit protection.
【Ready to Install】This 100w Solar Panel Kit includes all of the equipment necessary for building a new system. The included cables, Z-brackets, and pre-drilled holes on the back frame of the panel allow fast and secure mounting. With the Wanderer Li 30A PWM Charge Controller, the kit can meet your further power needs by adding more of the same solar panels to expand up to 400W.
Additional information
Brand
Renogy
Part Number
107.4, 49.8, 3.5
Item Weight
14.1 pounds
Style
Cables+Mounts
Connector Type
Barrel Connector
Included Components
Cable
AC Adapter Current
30 Amps
Maximum Voltage
12 Volts
Maximum Power
100 Watts
Product Dimensions
6.45"L x 4.31"W x 1.76"H
Manufacturer
Renogy
Material
Aluminum
Item model number
KIT-STARTER-100D
Country of Origin
Thailand
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer
No
Size
100W Panel+PWM 30A Controller
color
,Off-Grid System
Power Source
Solar-Powered
Wattage
100 watts
Item Package Quantity
1
Special Features
Lightweight Design
Batteries Included
No
Batteries Required
No
Warranty Description
Power Output Warranty
12 reviews for Renogy 100 Watt 12 Volt Solar Panel Starter Kit with 100W Monocrystalline Solar Panel + 30A PWM Charge Controller + Adaptor Kit + Tray Cables +…
Rated 5 out of 5
the_anonymous_1 –
I recently bought a used old pop up camper. I learned soon after that the converter wasn’t working and the battery wouldn’t charge off of shore power, so i bought this solar panel and charge controller. When it came, i had to stare at it for a minute before figuring it out. First connect the battery to the charge controller (insert wires and screw down to tighten). The lights will turn on and push the button to select what type of battery you have. Then connect the solar panel. On a sunny day, i can run the propane furnace (has a fan) all night and it charges right up the next day. It’s great. Glad I bought it. We can camp anywhere now 🙂
Rated 1 out of 5
Hero –
Tengo un problema con el panel solar, desde que lo compré no pasaba corriente a la batería, pensando que el problemas era del controlador de carga compré otro pero persistió el problema y no manda suficiente energía
cumple con las caracteristicas mostradas en sus especificaciones, los cables de muy buena calidad el controlador de carga cumple con su funcion perfectamente. la celda me encanto. en general muy buenos productos
Rated 4 out of 5
Nathan S. –
I purchased this to power a shed on my property where it was going to be too expensive to run an electric line. This 100 watt starter system was an experiment to see what I could do with solar as an alternative. Although it is listed as a starter kit, it lacks important things you’ll need, such as a battery, perhaps a better mount, and over current protection. The included mount brackets are good if you’re going to mount to an existing structure, however, I had nothing that faced south so I had to purchase an external mount for use. As part of this system, I purchased a 50 amp hour 12 volt battery. The cables between the solar panel and the charge controller were plenty long for my installation and I didn’t need to purchase anything else. In addition to the battery, I also added circuit protection devices, a couple of circuit breakers in the solar line and the battery line. I was also going to require 120 volts, so I also purchased a 12-volt to 120-volt inverter. If you’re staying at 12 volts only then you don’t need an inverter and you’ll save some money.
The system worked as expected. Being only 100 watts, it is limited in how much electricity it can generate, but it was sufficient for my needs. I found that on sunny days I could generate 60 to 70 watts of electricity. I tried to optimize the panel mount angle and direction but could never achieve more than about 80 watts. I’m guessing this is about normal for what is considered to be a 100 watt panel. During the summer I had sufficient number of hours of sunlight to maintain charge on my battery and operate the electrical equipment that I had planned to. Next year. I might add another panel or two for some extra capacity, and probably a larger battery.
The included solar charge controller, however, is very noisy electrically. It ruined some radio reception nearby with a very distinct buzz. I had to move the radio antenna further away from the solar controller. This is an inexpensive controller and electronic noise is to be expected from it. If you want radio silence, such as for a remote ham radio operation, you’ll probably want to get a better controller. Anecdotal evidence suggests the noise is also on the 12 volt line and can affect your transmitted signal. I haven’t been able to verify that yet. If that is the case, a noise filter might solve that problem.
Rated 5 out of 5
Duane –
Bien empacado y funciona, pero requiere de la batería para operar.
Rated 5 out of 5
Windell T. Young –
So far so good!!
Rated 4 out of 5
meg –
The panel is well constructed, has quality wiring of adequate length and works fine. My negative comments are that the controller that was included could have at least had a wattage indicator ( it has three led lights to show battery and panel status) and the Z brackets could have been designed so that the panel could be easily installed on a roof with 24″ centers.
Rated 5 out of 5
Christopher Chrysler –
Another quality product from Renogy. This 100 watt 12 v solar kit was all I needed to produce exceptional lighting in my off the grid barn.
Rated 5 out of 5
Nathan S. –
I have been super pleased since getting my kit.
But yesterday solidified Renoby. We had a tornado or land hurricane come through yesterday…still waiting on NWS.
We got through the wreckage and found that the panel was good…and still charging….
If you question whether or not these panels can hold up, I assure you they can.
Rated 5 out of 5
GROK –
Was pricing our options for a client who’d requested off grid power for their rural sawmill. They needed enough power to run a small beer fridge and for smart phones and a very efficient little notebook. They have generators for running real equipment, and the saws use internal combustion engines.
I had a small fridge lying about (actually have another 4 or so). Pick them up at estate sales and such for five to twenty bucks. Used a kWh measuring device (KillaWatt Brand) and ran it for a week, determining that it was consuming about 300 wH per day. So I figured a 100 W panel ought to be sufficient given that they have good sun resource on any day warm enough to need beer.
Note that I did not calculate in the fact that they’d be putting extra stress on the fridge by putting warm six packs in it every day or so. Could have done this by factoring in the specific heat of water (how much energy it takes to raise a given mass of water a given degree) and then working backwards and assuming an inefficiency coefficient based on the efficiency of refrigeration processes. If I had done so and used an egregiously inefficient coeficient, say 1 Wh of cooling (i.e., BTU converted to watt hours) requiring 1 Wh of energy to run the fridge, I’d get about 80 Wh of energy consumption to cool a gallon of beer, or about 50 Wh for a 6 pack. Frankly, I should have included this in the estimation, but assumed it wouldn’t be that big a deal. Note that a 1 to 1 ratio is fairly inefficient, so there’s a lot of wiggle room here. So, bottom line is that even if they switch out a 6 pack a day, total consumption ought not to exceed about 350 – 400 Wh per day. The roof pitch and sun resource here (southern Oregon) is pretty good. I figured they’d get at least 600 Wh ,delivered, with this panel in this location, in the summer.
Bottom line is that the panel seems to be providing enough energy, but we are going to need to add an additional 1200 wH battery since the depth of discharge gets too high if we get any morning fog. Even without that, 400 Wh is about a 33% DoD. That’s not bad, but given the occasional morning fog issue, the battery takes some stress on occasion. For our application, and the price of an extra panel, it might not be a bad idea to add another panel as well. They don’t drink a lot of beer in the winter, but it might not hurt.
As for the system, it was very easy to install and came with mounting brackets and sufficient cable to do it all out of the box.
The only problem was that the client initially used an old deep cycle battery, and on occasion the inverter was shutting down due to low voltage since it wasn’t capable of storing 1200 Wh. I ran a new battery over and they installed it. I THINK but can’t be sure, that they reversed the polarity or shorted the Charge Controller output leads. When I got there, the Charge Controller was not putting out any current. I had a small Victron MPPT unit in the truck so I just subbed it out. I haven’t thoroughly investigated the dead unit yet, but noticed it’s got two soldered in fuses(!) I will hook it up and jump the fuses one at a time to see if that’s what happened (yes, shame on me, I should have put some fast blowing fuses in the wiring – will get back there in the next week or two to do that). Anyway, the client is happy and I can still go in there to buy lumber without a problem.
Amazon has sent me a replacement Charge Controller, no questions asked, so that is good. I bought the Assurion Warranty on it.
I do want to add that the Victron is overkill for this app so I am going to sub it out with the replacement. The reason is that one of the nicest things about this kit is that the charge controller, while only a PWM, IS rated for 30 amps. So it’s easily expandable. (Upto 4 panels I believe.) That’s a nice feature, and the Vicron can handle higher voltage, so it’s wasted on this application.
All in all I highly recommend this kit for small or introductory set ups. Perfect for small dedicated stand alone applications such as a Flojet Water Pump to slowly pump water up a hill to a cistern for gravity flow to an application, or small fridge. Just don’t forget to add external fuses. For that matter, Renogy ought to bump the price up $10 and include them.
the_anonymous_1 –
I recently bought a used old pop up camper. I learned soon after that the converter wasn’t working and the battery wouldn’t charge off of shore power, so i bought this solar panel and charge controller. When it came, i had to stare at it for a minute before figuring it out. First connect the battery to the charge controller (insert wires and screw down to tighten). The lights will turn on and push the button to select what type of battery you have. Then connect the solar panel. On a sunny day, i can run the propane furnace (has a fan) all night and it charges right up the next day. It’s great. Glad I bought it. We can camp anywhere now 🙂
Hero –
Tengo un problema con el panel solar, desde que lo compré no pasaba corriente a la batería, pensando que el problemas era del controlador de carga compré otro pero persistió el problema y no manda suficiente energía
Austin Martínez –
コードが太くてコントローラーの接続口に入りづらい。
また、ねじを締め付けてもしっかり固定しづらく直ぐ抜けてくる。
それ以外は良好。
キャンピングカーで使用。
しっかりソーラー発電しサブバッテリーにチャージしてます。
太陽さえ出ていれば、テレビ程度ならほとんど電圧の降下は無く13.5Ｖで安定。
サブバッテリーはシングル使用でソーラーも100Ｗ1台ですが、
バッテリーを2台に増設したら、ソーラーも100Ｗ2台に追加予定。
中国語と英語が読めないが読めない人 –
cumple con las caracteristicas mostradas en sus especificaciones, los cables de muy buena calidad
el controlador de carga cumple con su funcion perfectamente. la celda me encanto. en general muy buenos productos
Nathan S. –
I purchased this to power a shed on my property where it was going to be too expensive to run an electric line. This 100 watt starter system was an experiment to see what I could do with solar as an alternative. Although it is listed as a starter kit, it lacks important things you’ll need, such as a battery, perhaps a better mount, and over current protection. The included mount brackets are good if you’re going to mount to an existing structure, however, I had nothing that faced south so I had to purchase an external mount for use. As part of this system, I purchased a 50 amp hour 12 volt battery. The cables between the solar panel and the charge controller were plenty long for my installation and I didn’t need to purchase anything else. In addition to the battery, I also added circuit protection devices, a couple of circuit breakers in the solar line and the battery line. I was also going to require 120 volts, so I also purchased a 12-volt to 120-volt inverter. If you’re staying at 12 volts only then you don’t need an inverter and you’ll save some money.
The system worked as expected. Being only 100 watts, it is limited in how much electricity it can generate, but it was sufficient for my needs. I found that on sunny days I could generate 60 to 70 watts of electricity. I tried to optimize the panel mount angle and direction but could never achieve more than about 80 watts. I’m guessing this is about normal for what is considered to be a 100 watt panel. During the summer I had sufficient number of hours of sunlight to maintain charge on my battery and operate the electrical equipment that I had planned to. Next year. I might add another panel or two for some extra capacity, and probably a larger battery.
The included solar charge controller, however, is very noisy electrically. It ruined some radio reception nearby with a very distinct buzz. I had to move the radio antenna further away from the solar controller. This is an inexpensive controller and electronic noise is to be expected from it. If you want radio silence, such as for a remote ham radio operation, you’ll probably want to get a better controller. Anecdotal evidence suggests the noise is also on the 12 volt line and can affect your transmitted signal. I haven’t been able to verify that yet. If that is the case, a noise filter might solve that problem.
Duane –
Bien empacado y funciona, pero requiere de la batería para operar.
Windell T. Young –
So far so good!!
meg –
The panel is well constructed, has quality wiring of adequate length and works fine. My negative comments are that the controller that was included could have at least had a wattage indicator ( it has three led lights to show battery and panel status) and the Z brackets could have been designed so that the panel could be easily installed on a roof with 24″ centers.
Christopher Chrysler –
Another quality product from Renogy.
This 100 watt 12 v solar kit was all I needed to produce exceptional lighting in my off the grid barn.
Nathan S. –
I have been super pleased since getting my kit.
But yesterday solidified Renoby. We had a tornado or land hurricane come through yesterday…still waiting on NWS.
We got through the wreckage and found that the panel was good…and still charging….
If you question whether or not these panels can hold up, I assure you they can.
GROK –
Was pricing our options for a client who’d requested off grid power for their rural sawmill. They needed enough power to run a small beer fridge and for smart phones and a very efficient little notebook. They have generators for running real equipment, and the saws use internal combustion engines.
I had a small fridge lying about (actually have another 4 or so). Pick them up at estate sales and such for five to twenty bucks. Used a kWh measuring device (KillaWatt Brand) and ran it for a week, determining that it was consuming about 300 wH per day. So I figured a 100 W panel ought to be sufficient given that they have good sun resource on any day warm enough to need beer.
Note that I did not calculate in the fact that they’d be putting extra stress on the fridge by putting warm six packs in it every day or so. Could have done this by factoring in the specific heat of water (how much energy it takes to raise a given mass of water a given degree) and then working backwards and assuming an inefficiency coefficient based on the efficiency of refrigeration processes. If I had done so and used an egregiously inefficient coeficient, say 1 Wh of cooling (i.e., BTU converted to watt hours) requiring 1 Wh of energy to run the fridge, I’d get about 80 Wh of energy consumption to cool a gallon of beer, or about 50 Wh for a 6 pack. Frankly, I should have included this in the estimation, but assumed it wouldn’t be that big a deal. Note that a 1 to 1 ratio is fairly inefficient, so there’s a lot of wiggle room here. So, bottom line is that even if they switch out a 6 pack a day, total consumption ought not to exceed about 350 – 400 Wh per day. The roof pitch and sun resource here (southern Oregon) is pretty good. I figured they’d get at least 600 Wh ,delivered, with this panel in this location, in the summer.
Bottom line is that the panel seems to be providing enough energy, but we are going to need to add an additional 1200 wH battery since the depth of discharge gets too high if we get any morning fog. Even without that, 400 Wh is about a 33% DoD. That’s not bad, but given the occasional morning fog issue, the battery takes some stress on occasion. For our application, and the price of an extra panel, it might not be a bad idea to add another panel as well. They don’t drink a lot of beer in the winter, but it might not hurt.
As for the system, it was very easy to install and came with mounting brackets and sufficient cable to do it all out of the box.
The only problem was that the client initially used an old deep cycle battery, and on occasion the inverter was shutting down due to low voltage since it wasn’t capable of storing 1200 Wh. I ran a new battery over and they installed it. I THINK but can’t be sure, that they reversed the polarity or shorted the Charge Controller output leads. When I got there, the Charge Controller was not putting out any current. I had a small Victron MPPT unit in the truck so I just subbed it out. I haven’t thoroughly investigated the dead unit yet, but noticed it’s got two soldered in fuses(!) I will hook it up and jump the fuses one at a time to see if that’s what happened (yes, shame on me, I should have put some fast blowing fuses in the wiring – will get back there in the next week or two to do that). Anyway, the client is happy and I can still go in there to buy lumber without a problem.
Amazon has sent me a replacement Charge Controller, no questions asked, so that is good. I bought the Assurion Warranty on it.
I do want to add that the Victron is overkill for this app so I am going to sub it out with the replacement. The reason is that one of the nicest things about this kit is that the charge controller, while only a PWM, IS rated for 30 amps. So it’s easily expandable. (Upto 4 panels I believe.) That’s a nice feature, and the Vicron can handle higher voltage, so it’s wasted on this application.
All in all I highly recommend this kit for small or introductory set ups. Perfect for small dedicated stand alone applications such as a Flojet Water Pump to slowly pump water up a hill to a cistern for gravity flow to an application, or small fridge. Just don’t forget to add external fuses. For that matter, Renogy ought to bump the price up $10 and include them.
cesar –
普段は充電にのみですけど、台風で停電した時には、バッテリーで冷蔵庫を稼働しました。あって良かった❗