Coleman 40W Solar Panel On Sale

[canucksafari]

I see Canadian Tire has the Coleman 40W solar panel on sale at a huge discount. At this price, if these are decent, I might get two of them. Anyone have experience with these panels?
http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/coleman-40w-folding-solar-panel-0112043p.html#.U6XOvECiVSk

 

[Greg_B]

Yup, had two hooked up this winter: One to the 80, and one to the BJ42 (rewired the batteries in parallel for storage). Comes with a basic charge controller, which seemed to do fine. Kept things charged up on both, all winter. Thinking of buying one more during this sale.

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[canucksafari]

Thanks for the recommendation Greg. I need it to charge my 100 amp hr deep cycle battery for my CPAP machine.

 

[Greg_B]

It worked fine on maintaining batteries that were simply sitting in the vehicle over the winter. Giving enough umphhh back into the batteries over a one day period would need a little more calculation. Here is one: http://www.batterystuff.com/kb/tools/solar-calculator.html Isn't there a guy that sells solar equipment in town that some club members have used in the past?

 

[Glenn-BJ74]

Bolt it on the roof and forget about it - always full charge parked outside - they should come with all new cars as an option for intermittent users