Renogy 220W - Portable Solar Panel Review - #solarpanels #solarpower #tinycamper

I’m going camping next week at Bass Lake California and I’ve been scouring your old videos just as a refresher. Your videos are always informative and basic so I can understand. Thanks for all you do.

Brian! You have such a gift for delivering content easily for folks to understand! I do not currently have a solar system but am in the market and your videos have helped me understand this ‘new to me’ world. Would be grateful for a recommendation on a simple panel that can be left outdoors during all weather (I’m in Canada) that would keep my 12v deep cycle trailer battery topped up year round (trailer sitting on bare acreage for recreation)… that’s my first step. Next will be a ‘gizmo’ to charge some cell phones, iPad, etc. Thanks for all you contribute! Best videos around hands down!

🤣😂 I literally spit my coffee out, all over my iPhone when I watched this: 10:21 - 10:35. You should make that one of your channel's video shorts and call it something like, "The 22v Limit Question - To plug it in or not to plug it in

I am not sure if it’s your presentation or maybe I just understand you better then other ytubers But I learn more and better information from you Brian. Thank you for a great simple to understand review video

The first solar panels I bought were a suitcase style portable, and I still use it to chase that moving 10 square feet of sun hitting the ground around the camper. Well worth the investment.

Hybrid Portable Panel (HPP) - you heard it here first folks!!

7:49 Imagine a world where the solar panel and portable power station industries finally agree on a universal connector standard! I pray for that day!

Love how that door swings right open. Must be camping with a ghost.

I have two of these i hook up to a splitter/combiner with 10awg wire. Very Handy, The brand i have is a bit different but same design. Mine just has big nice carry handles for when its folded. The Y-connection is right at the Victron Solar controller, Two 20ft 10awg lines run from both panels. Some panels try and get you to combine the panels right at the panel location but if you do that the single wire running back to your controller will be overloaded. So to avoid a fire hazard its best to have your combiner right at the Solar controller and run your panel lines separately. Most people are impressed with my setup. FYI Furion solar ready do have like a 5-10amp charge controllers in the camper. Very Very basic and cheap, Never used mine.

When I bought my Bluetti AC200Max, they included a 200W briefcase style portable panel. It is handy, and doesn't take up a lot of space, but I can see from this video, that it is kind of lacking in durability features, as well as not having handles, nor kickstands. Those look like great features to have on a portable, excuse me, Hybrid Panel! One more add-on to the collection of solar fun- always good to have some extra power!

Nice shirt!!

I just purchased the Renogy 400W suitcase array and it came on Monday. Its HUGE but 400W of solar should charge my battery bank up in less than 3 hours with full sun light. Waiting on an SAE cable from Amazon as I didn't have one on hand but I'm excited to add more solar to the system as the 100W rooftop panel just wasn't doing it during cloudy days.

I have to catch up on your videos. Work has kept me very busy. And I've been ignoring my other channel, too, with project videos. Those small panels on the top of the camper, I would consider those to be a glorified battery maintainer. At 100W, the largest battery it will charge in 1 day is a 50Ah battery. And that's if everything is perfect. I carry at least 100Ah and sometimes 200Ah. I prefer the soft suitcase/briefcase panels because they're thinner. Space is always at a premium. I can find more places to pack them. By the way, I have one more little electric project for my camper, then I'm ready to cut a video. Or maybe I'll cut it this weekend and do that as a follow-up. It will have my solar setup in it. When it gets posted, the channel is Little Miami Fab.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but on his channel Jasonoid, when he reviewed the 400W version of this solar panel, used the term "hybrid." His review was released April 12th. He did not, however, mention anything about trademarking the term 😄I continue to struggle with the idea of buying something like this as opposed to buying two 100W flexible panels, hooking them up in series, and just propping them up with rocks or logs or something. The relatively new Arch panels from BougeRV look well suited for this kind of application (3.8 lbs.), as do the ShadeStoppers. But for now I have enough solar for my needs; can't just throw bucks at every sexy solar panel that passes by.

Thanks Bryan. Good one to consider when I’m ready to purchase one. Question: the solar ready sticker on the side of my R-Pod says 20 A. Do I have to stick to a 20A controller or can I go with a 30 or 40 A controller?

It's Solar-palooza! :_Bushwhackr::_Jeep::_outdoor:

Thanks so much for your help! I was thinking something small that already had a built in controller and could be left unattended on the property year round. Is there such a thing? Lol

Quick question. If you have a Goal Zero yeti or a jackery and I am using a renogy solar setup with a charge controller, do I need to cut out the solar panels charge controller since the power pack have them built in? Thanks

So if a small trailer already has a 200 watt solar system on if from the factory, and you plug this one to the same battery, the two independent systems won't fight over (so to speak) which one is charging the battery? The two charge controllers talk to each other and get along? lol

Great info thanks:goodvibes: