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Sunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit | 
| Brand: Sunforce
Category: Automotive Parts and Accessories
List Price: $599.99
Buy New: $299.99
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 398
Color: Black
Media: Misc.
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 54 x 12 x 42.3
MPN: 50044
Model: 50044
UPC: 787769500483
EAN: 0787769500445
ASIN: B000CIADLG
Release Date: November 25, 2005
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| Features:
| • | Amorphous solar charging kit provides up to 60-Watts of clean, free, renewable power | | • | Designed for RVs, cabins, homes, boats, back-up and remote power use, and more | | • | Weatherproof, durable solar panels can withstand impacts from hailstones travelling 50 miles-per-hour | | • | Includes four 15-Watt solar panels with durable mounting frames, a 200-Watt power inverter, a 7-Amp solar charge controller, and a wiring kit with accessories for easy installation | | • | Built-in, ultra-bright blue LED charging indicator |
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Product Description
Dead batteries got you down? Soak up some sunshine with this 60 - watt Solar Kit! Solar power: efficient, abundant and FREE. Looking for a little juice? Solar may be the answer! These super-efficient crystalline Solar Panels were designed for use with cabins, outbuildings, RVs, boats... anywhere running electrical line is not practical. A 7-amp charge controller and 200W inverter help use the sun's energy to charge any 12V vehicle or marine battery. Saves you a TON compared to doing the same job with a gasoline-powered generator! Also can provide remote power for items like feeders, landscaping equipment and more. A bright idea: Produces 4 amps of current under ideal conditions; Maintenance-free and completely silent; Works in all weather conditions, from -35 to 175 degrees F; Blocking diode will not allow batteries to discharge at night; Durable ABS shell; All hardware included (battery sold separately); Measures 40" h. x 58" w., weighs 55 lbs.; Order now for "sun"-sational savings! 60W Panel power potential for 1 week. Will run ALL below: Device: Satellite Dish Wattage: 30 Hours of Use: 90 Device: Bilge/Sump Pump Wattage: 100 Hours of Use: 29 Device: Laptop Computer Wattage: 50 Hours of Use: 59 Device: Compact Lights Wattage: 10 Hours of Use: 294 Device: 12" TV Wattage: 20 Hours of Use: 147 In a typical week (7 days / 7 hours of light each day), a 60W solar panel will generate 2,940W (196 amps) into a 12V battery. 60-watt Solar Panel Kit
Amazon.com Product Description
The Sunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit gives you several more reasons to love the sun. It provides the power you need, while helping you save money and protect the environment. This kit is ideal for cabins, recreational vehicles, remote power, back-up power, and 12-volt battery charging. It comes with everything you need to start producing up to 60 Watts/4 Amps of clean, free power in all weather conditions.
 Sunforce kits are easy to set up and operate. | Convenient Power That Helps You Save Money and Protect the Environment
The Sunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit lets you harness the power of the sun, the most powerful and plentiful source of energy available to us. This inexhaustible supply of power is freely available wherever the sun shines, and gives users the freedom to power their homes, RVs, boats, batteries, and electronic equipment far from civilization or right in town. Solar power can help cut your energy bills by reducing your dependence on the main electrical grid, and can also provide back-up power during outages. Unlike nuclear and fossil fuels, solar power systems are clean and pollution-free, and they require very little maintenance to operate.
 Sunforce Solar Panels are effective in areas of both high and lower
sun exposure, making them ideal for use in the United States.
View Larger | Everything You Need to Power Up
The Sunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit has everything you need to start generating power. It includes four (4) 15-Watt amorphous solar panels with durable mounting frames, a 200-Watt modified sine wave power inverter, a 7-Amp solar charge controller, and a wiring kit with accessories for easy installation.
With built-in blocking diode technology, this solar charging kit is designed to protect against battery discharge at night. You can also use this kit to maintain the charge on any 12-Volt battery for clean, silent operation of various electronics, such as deer feeders and landscaping pumps. The included charge controller features a built-in ultra-bright blue LED charging indicator, and is a great choice for automobiles, recreational vehicles, tractors, all-terrain vehicles, boats, electric fences, telemetry and more.
About Amorphous Solar Power
Amorphous solar panels are created by spraying silicon on to glass in very thin layers, and are commonly known as thin film solar panels. This process allows them to be better at generating electricity in all lighting conditions, including cloudy or shady environments. Sunforce amorphous solar panels are weatherproof and suitable for outdoor use. They have a maximum operating temperature range of -40 to 176-degrees Fahrenheit, require virtually no maintenance, and are also effective on cloudy days. They can even withstand impacts from one-inch hailstones at 50 miles-per-hour.
Solar panels convert sunlight into an electric current, they do not store power. Sunforce Solar Charging Kits are primarily used to recharge 12-Volt batteries (not included), which store and provide usable power. The included 200-Watt power inverter allows you to use traditional 110-Volt appliances with this system. The included Sunforce 7-Amp Solar Charge Controller must be installed to prevent any connected batteries from overcharging. Once fully charged, it is normal for the charge controller LED to turn off and on as the battery voltage fluctuates from the discharge/recharge cycle.
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 Great starter-kit March 6, 2010
Tinny Yu
The product does what it said it does. Measured the voltage on a sunny day on a single panel and it put out about 20VDC. You could imagine what four of the panels can collect. The panel is now on the roof of the house collecting some sun for the battery. Even through the rainy weather it still collects whatever it can, so far so good. As a precaution of the wiring on the connectors I bound the two with wire tape to keep the water out and so far it works. I will go check the wiring later in the months and see if the wires are affected by rainy weather. Although, the inverter is a modified sine and putting out about 200 watts. The fan is a bit noisy, for the moment I don't mind it. The inverter is outside of the house and I'm inside. I have done some additional test to on the inverter, and the hertz is not stable and it does fluctuate a lot. I don't know how bad this is, but I have read some articles that fluctuating hertz can harm any devices that need constant hertz. (normally I get about 40hz - 45hz, and not the usual 60hz from an outlet)
 Great for the money February 11, 2010
Brian Bonner (Butte, Montana)
I love it! easy to install with all plug-in wiring, PVC frame and charged during a snow storm! Obviously, not at full streength, but no amorphous solar panel do not charge in over cast skies.
I use them to run my RV as I live off the grid. I live in 2 buses and an RV and this is a nice start.
I like it so much I ordered a second one!
Came intact January 29, 2010
muffybquick (PA)
I bought this as a gift. Due to the past reviews I was worried that it would arrive broken. IT DID NOT! It was still shipped by Fed Ex as of 12/2009 and arrived in one piece. none of the panels were broken. Since it was a gift (and it's the dead of winter) it hasn't been set up yet so I don't know the final outcome hence only 4 stars. But if you are on the fence due to shipping worries - don't fret!
 ok but spend a little extra for something with higher voltage November 29, 2009
Joe V.
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Everthig came fast and in good condition. It is easy to set up but I would rather pay a little higher electric bill than use this to charge my phone and bluetooth. Anything more the box starts to screem. I purchased a 400 watt converter and the same thing happens when I plug in anything stronger than my telephone and bluetooth. if anyone has any recomendations please post, because so far I have found this solar panel kit pretty useless. I plugged a small coffee pot in and the box starts to scream. I read almost all the posts here before I purchased this thing and thought it would be useful. So far useless. Please post if anyone has any recommendations. I will be more than willing to repost a better review if it is something I did wrong or misunderstood. All the best.........
excellant October 18, 2009
john k
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
just as i had hoped---for the money this is great----did not use the inverter as i had a 750---but have it as a spare----panals great--stand good---does the job
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