Solar Panels .97/W

[Harold in CR]

http://www.sunelec.com/

Some guys have great luck and some never get a response to their email or phone messages left YMMV

 

[John in CR]

Yeah baby. We'll all have solar charged ebikes before too long. Are those the flexible type, because that's what I really need.

John

 

[Harold in CR]

All I know is, they are laminated panels. One guy bought a 557# pallet of them, and they were delivered to inside his garage.

 

[neptronix]

UMM... really?
$95.20 for an 80 watt panel
$50 for an invertor
~$100 for a 50ah 12v lead battery.
~$100 for shipping everything.

'bout $350 and you got ~15ah of 36v capacity sitting in that battery, or 12ah of 48v power.
Plug your lipo charger straight into that battery and you've got a green energy source for eBike! and add an AC invertor and you can power a laptop and/or off it too when the bike isn't being charged and you've got spare power.

If i had money to blow, i would totally do it. It is an investment.. yeah.. but a friggin' cool investment at that. And maybe the cost can go down by using old car batteries in serial.

 

[neptronix]

ahhhhhhhh.......

Actually, those cheapies are high voltage apparently, run at 71v max. Looks like most charge controllers aren't setup to handle that kind of voltage.

And by inverter, i meant charge controller. whoops.
And shipping is a hell of a lot more $.. then they also have minimum order amounts on the lower sized panels too :/

So um.. more like $500-$700

 

[torker]

That is interesting. You know so called 12v panels sometimes run 20-22 volts. I wonder if the 71 volt panel might work on a 48 volt inverter. ??

 

[neptronix]

Maybe. There must be some kind of solar charge controller that can handle high voltage thin film panels.. i can't seem to find one.. and using a non-thin film seems to double the price of the solar installation.