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This permanent mount solar charging system lets you mount the solar panel where you need it for maximum sunlight. 40-watt panel provides DC power to charge your vehicle's batteries. Charges lead-acid and lithium batteries.
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Hello everybody, this is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today we gonna take a look at the OptiMate 40 Watt Solar Dual Charging System, with the controller. Now this is a permanent mount solar charging system that'll let you place the solar panel where you need it for maximum sunlight. It is a permanent mount design solar power system. So it does provide a nice off-grid charging solution for lead-acid and lithium batteries. And you install this solar panel using these included corner mounting brackets that are on the panel.
Now the hardware to install, these are not included you would have to supply that. But the kit does include everything shown here on the table. The 40 watt solar panel, if I turn it around you can see it has an eight inch long built in solar cable. Now the controller that's included, right here. This is a solar dual controller, has an SAE connector.
Also has the battery clamp cables, the ring terminal cables, and a nice owner's manual. Now the battery types that are supported by this are flooded, AGM, gel, and the LiFePO4, which is the lithium-iron phosphate batteries. The panel itself is a 40W Polycrystalline Solar Panel, does use the sunlight to charge your vehicles batteries, and this panel does have an IP54 rating. It is made from weatherproof materials to stand up to the elements. And I wanna zoom in and show you the other parts here.
This solar controller, this is what'll allow you to adjust the solar panel output for a quick consistent charge. Offers an automatic multi-stage smart charging system to help extend the battery life. And it uses an led display that'll provide the charge progress and monitor the charge level throughout the night. Just wanted to show you if we plugged this in, I think it will probably show you there's some charge in that panel. Yeah, you can see the red light that pops on there that show you that it is giving out a charge, and then there's lights over here that'll show you the car charge progress and monitors the charge level.
The cord on this that connects to the battery is gonna be about 40 inches long, and they give you two different options to connect it to your battery. You can use the 20 inch long battery clamp cables. You'll just plug this into the connector here. And then you have your standard battery clamps that will connect to your positive and negative on your battery. If you want a more permanent connection, they do offer this 20 inch long ring terminal cables. You can see they have the islets on there to connect to the battery. It's positive and negative, and then same way you just pull the cap, plug this in and you're all ready to go. So a couple of different options to connect it to your battery. And it comes with this nice owner's manual that'll describe how this connects and how it operates. Now it does use a dual method, smart charging system that'll help efficiently charge the battery in any weather, provides a nice continuous charge in full sun, and will even give you a pulse charge in low light. It will even save your dead battery from as low as four volts. Again, the application for this is 12 volt or 12.8 volt batteries, from two to 240 amp hours. Solar panel voltage is 12 volts. The solar panel rated power is 40 Watts. And then the last thing I wanna do is just give you a few dimensions on the solar panel itself. And I am gonna measure including these corner brackets cause they do stick out some. So if we do the width on the corner brackets, right at 27 inches long. The width again, the widest point, that'd be where the brackets are 16 and five eighths inches wide. And the depth of it is only about one and a quarter inches. But that should do it for the review on the OptiMate 40 Watt Solar Dual Charging System, with the controller..
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 Customer Reviews)
This permanent mount solar charging system lets you mount the solar panel where you need it for maximum sunlight. 40-watt panel provides DC power to charge your vehicle's batteries. Charges lead-acid and lithium batteries.Review from a similar OptiMate Mounted Solar Panel in RV Solar Panels
Product exactly what was advertised and easy to install.
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