
200w Portable Solar Mat by Hard Korr
Here's another product we've personally used and fell in love with, and although we usually try to stay away from the geeky technical jargon of most products, this is an example of one where that geeky stuff really matters. It's a 200 watt panel, that much is in the name. What matters though is how much of that actually gets to your battery. In our case, we consistently get a charge rate of between 8 and 10.2 amps with this panel. To expand on that, it's the equivalent of plugging your battery into a 120v, home-use charger. It's insane. To think that on a mediocre-sunlight day, we are able to get the same charging power as having our NOCO GENIUS charger plugged into the city power grid. Similarly to any high-end home charger, the solar controller supplied with this unit is a multiple-stage charger that will sense where your battery is at in it's charge cycle, and adjust the flow into it. This ensures fast charging when needed, and protects the battery from overcharging. It's that coo