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- #131,941 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden)
- #106 in Renewable Energy Controllers
Product Description
Ron
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025
I bought this controller for my camper. To change my milwaukee and craftmen batteries. It also changes my small portable power station.
Galka
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025
This is a simple, inexpensive 10A PWM charger that will work great to maintain a couple of deep cycle batteries or recharge 40-60AH in a day with up to about 120W of solar. It works great with a 100W panel to maintain my RV batteries. Yeah, an MPPT can be better, but this is just a 10A charger and works fine for what it is, and the price is right.
BRX
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2025
I'm using this to keep a small LiFePo battery charged up with a few different small solar panels. I use it for my landscaping lights and a DIY WiFi weather station I keep in my yard. For that, this is probably overkill, but it's also an application that's no critical or requires a lot of efficiency or high power.Ideally, you'd always want an MPPT charger, but for simple projects like mine, it seems to work well enough.
Jim
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2025
Item is as described & functions just the same. Very nicely done, highly recommend!
S
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2025
This charge controller works well for small solar setups, it's not a lot of power at 12v@10amps but if you step up to 24v at the same amperage you can squeeze more power out of it. I used it for 2 130w solar panels connected to a 12v lofepo4 battery and did not have issues with using it to keep the battery topped off. I guess the next step would be to step up my batteries to 24v so I can squeeze the extra 60watts out of the panels when summer comes around for mor solar power.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2025
To be fair, I am still building out the power supply box that this unit will be used in. Put in preliminary tests, seems to get the job done. I'll be blunt and say the price, very inexpensive, almost scared me off. But initial tests it works just fine.Construction wise, the plastic gives a feel of a cheap device, but again, the price point does get you a device without breaking the bank. Was also a little disappointed in the connectors for the wires. Mostly raw wire screwed into ports vs. plugs and jacks. But again, it does work.In short, for my purposes it seems like it will work just fine. This is not for mission critical applications and would recommend it for such. But for a very economical solar charge controller for small field boxes and other power applications, give it a go!
Lectrichead
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2025
I am in the process of switching over from an old-style lead acid battery, controller, and solar cell to multiple lithium LiFePO4 rechargeable batteries for more charge cycles and smaller batteries.So this controller was exactly what I needed and was a perfect fit for my modified system as my old solar controller was rated to only work with lead acid batteries and while it would have charge Lithium ones, it might overcharge or undercharge it since it was made for lead acid batteries.Though this one will also charge lead acid, and other types of batteries also and even 24 volts in addition to 12.This is easy to set up - all connections are labeled with symbols and polarity for the wires.Wires are easily slipped in and tightened via a Phillips (cross) or flat-head screwdriver (either one works) and you don't need to strip too much wire for them to fit.The display lets you know when you are charging the battery, battery voltage, charge voltage, and load and indicates with simple arrows and symbols what is going on.The menu button lets you go through all displays and settings and set button lets you modify settings. the default worked perfectly for me.For load there are the same screw in wire terminals as for the solar panel and battery or you can use the USB port. The USb port is only 2 amps so keep that in mind - when you need more power use the wire-in connections.I won't go into the specs because you can easily look them up on the Amazon page above, though of note is reverse protection and short circuit protection as well as its ability to prevent overcharging and charge a little intelligently to extend battery life and a low temp sensor to detect too low temps for lithium.There are four holes at the corners for mounting and the bad is very flat for double-sided tape or velcro or just strapping it in with zip ties. Underneath the flat back is a full heat sink taking up the entirety of the back (hidden unless you take off the back).Instructions are fairly straight forward and easy to follow for the most part.Really good investment in solar and batteries for camping and converting a trailer from old style lead acid/AC hookup to solar.
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