Customer Reviews

HQRP 30W Flexible Solar Panel Power 30 Watt 12V Mono-crystalline PV Module w/ 4 Stainless Grommets for RV Boat Yacht plus HQRP UV Chain / UV Radiation Health Tester

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Have had this flexible solar panel for just a few days so far. This panel has grommets along the edges for easy mounting, I used rubber tarp straps to mount this to a 100 gallon cylindrical fuel tank. It charges the deep cycle battery that runs the pump that was already in place. I used to put the battery on a charger every night the pump was used, with the solar charge is not necessary, is virtually maintenance free now. I bought a square framed panel first, did not take long to figure out this was going to be a nightmare getting a square panel mounted to a round tank. With this flex style do not have to worry about rocks and gravel kicking up on the panel either. This is a perfect solution, looks to be well made, hopefully I will get many years of use out of it too.
Here is my blog about the project.

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I have only had this one for about a month, and it works well to keep the battery on my boat charged. It is lighter and thinner than the others I have bought at the same power level.

While it is flexible, it is not as flexible as the Amazon write up makes it look. Not a big problem, but it affects how you can mount it.

Good value for money.

I got a HQRP 30W Flexible Solar Panel Power 30 Watt 12V Mono-crystalline PV Module for my boat to replace an ancient 11 watt Flx-11 solar panel that is no longer made. The HQRP 30 Watt panel is roughly 16 X 34 inches. The old 11 watt panel was 30 inches by 16 inches. 19 more watts, in 4 inches more length, shows a LOT more watt density than in Ye Olden Dayes! It sits on a Bimini Top on my sailboat, so I had to round off the sharp corners on the aluminum sheet substrate with some tin-snips. It's been installed for three weeks now and even with all the rain plaguing the Southeastern U.S. lately, STILL keeps my Group 29 battery fully float-charged into a solar array charger. The grommets were useful for tying to my Bimini Top frame.
A good buy, with good performance; what more could you ask?

Why not that (coveted) 5th star?
The web-site picture that shows the panel semi-folded is roughly 1 or 2 degrees from the point where you start damaging the printed-on crystalline structure. You are NOT going to roll that thing up to store it, but so far, that has not been an issue on my boat.

Special Kudos to Amazon:
When UPS decided NOT to deliver my package because they thought I had moved (33 years in same location, yeah, right) Amazon not only took back the returned panel, and did NOT charge me any re-stocking fees, they sent me ANOTHER panel with NO shipping charges.
Any company can take care of a customer when things are going well; the mark of a GREAT company is how well they take care of you when things are going very badly.
Thanks, Amazon!

This panel is not capable of producing more than about 15 W under bright sunlight. This is confirmed by the data on the label on the back of the panel, where the short-circuit current is rated at a little over 1 ampere. The panel is also misdescribed in that there are six grommets, not four. If the product specifications were given, I would've bought something else. This is a general problem with product descriptions on Amazon. In most cases over the last few years, the Amazon listings have been very incomplete. I find out more, but not enough, from the customer reviews.