DOKIO 100 Watts 12 Volts Monocrystalline Foldable Solar Panel with Charge Controller

This solar panel kit is awesome. I connected it to my battery box from my spare battery after upgrading to a lithium battery in my trailer and it keeps it charged all day and then I use the battery box all night for my projector and charging my phones during offgrid cramping.

Works great! Easy to transport. You can charge devices right off the controller or hook to a RV battery.

Panel is light, works well to 90% when in direct sunlight outside. Will not work unless it is direct sun on the panel. I got it to charge my Bluetti A70 and so far it is working fine and is a simple plug in using the included cables. If I travel I will use this panel for sure. Gave it 4 stars due to it being on the expensive side compared to other 100w panels. I do like it though.

This kit can charge a lifepo4 battery. Maximum charge current is coming from this cheap pwm charge controller, it's only at around 14.6 volts max voltage from this controller with this solar panel. Which is enought to charge a 12v lifepo4 battery at 14.4 volts charging. The only trick to charge a lifepo4 battery more quickly, is to have full sun day on solar panels. Best to invest in a mppt controller charger, but not totally necessary for a small solar panel setup like this. 14.4 volts in full sunlight on this solar panel to charge your lifepo4 battery fully. Make sure solar panel face is facing sun at 90 degrees to sun for best voltage. These solar panels seem to work, but they are fragile. Do not bend them too much, I heard one making a slight crackling sound when bending slightly. Good to have or make a solar stand that supports this solar panel well so it doesn't bend much. Like make a solar stand out of pvc pipe and carriage bolts to make a folding frame stand. Nice to have this light weight portable solar panel. Does charge a 12v lifepo4 battery 50 ah pretty quickly. But better to buy another solar panel to get more juice to battery for when you have loads on battery, and for charging, topping off your battery much faster. Too bad that all solar panels are only about 23 percent efficient or less. Can you imagine if solar was 100 percent efficient ? You could then run the whole World off of pure sunlight !!! Plenty of power comes from solar if We could get much more efficient panels, controllers and batteries. We need about 50 percent more efficient solar for it to really take off, and for a forever energy source. Solar panels used in space by NASA etc. like on all satellites, work better in the coldness of space, if you chill a solar panel down in temperature you can get much higher charge current. Much More effeciency from freezing temps, on a solar panel.

The good. The folding solar panel actually works great. The bad. Unfortunately the controller supplied with it does not. I used the panel with my Renogy controller and it works well charging the lithium iron phosphate battery in my boat. The Dokio controller has USB outputs which don't work at all and the buttons to set the functions like battery type, voltage settings etc..are sporadic. The factory setting cutoff seem to charge a lead acid battery over 14.5 volts which is too high and I've tried adjusting it without success.