Thread: Torrential Rain and Semi-flexible Solar Panels Performance

Currently experiencing cabin fever......so figured I’d check in on pop top......

I’m at Jervis Bay and it’s been raining full on all day....not quite making up what the fridge is using, I’d go out and turn the fridge off but given I de-solve in the rain I’ll wait until the battery gets lower

Originally Posted by Homestar

What sized panel/s? Looks like you may need a bit more for the rainy days/Winter

I have three sitting on the roof rack

2 x 100w I brought online.... I set them up in parallel and tested the output, the output from both barely got to the rated output of one, I than tried them one at a time to see if one was faulty, nope both barely got to 50% of states output, I than tried series and got a little better performance but still way short of stated output.. Got onto the supplier and first question they asked was how I had them set up, I said in parallel, they were quick to advise that I didn’t read the fine print as they state cannot be set up in parallel or series, I reply saying you sell them as a twin pack with out regulators . So now I have these two set up in series.

1 x 100w scorpion is the third, it’s output is above stated. I have this connect in series with the other two.

combined im getting the output of 200 ish Watts

I’ll end up ditching the twondud and buying another scorpion.