“Stoked with the new solar panels, easy to setup & fold away. Already had a regulator in the van so didn't need the controller on the panel, but it is there if needed in the future, all up a great product.”
“On bright sunny days, the panels did make up to 200W (mine was the 300W version), though it quickly overheated and shut down on days above 30 degrees. I had to keep the panel in the shade which had the solar controller attached to make it work. I haven't had feedback from Kickass products if this is expected - if so, it's pretty bad! Maybe it would be better with an external MPPT controller and not the inbuilt PWM controller.”
“The panel works amazingly well but it is quite large, so make sure you have the room to carry it.
The brackets rattle as well. We covered every bracket and cable in bubble wrap, which stopped all the rattling while driving.
Would highly recommend this product to anyone looking for top quality, portable solar panels.”
“The 300watt panel I purchased from kickass works quite well but the second time I put it out one of the legs broke off. It is only secured by plastic rivets. It needs to be secured by aluminium rivets”
“The workmanship was terrible the solar panels lasted 1 day before the stands broke away from the main frame the panels where returned for a full refund sorry but will not be buying the panels again.”
“We have had dramas getting enough charge from our old "4ish years" KickAss portable panels in sub optimal "cloudy" conditions. So we decided to lash out on the new 300W portable as we now have 2 sets of battery to charge Caravan AGM and Lithium in a battery box.
The Lithium also appeared to be a bit challenged on recharge seeming to get stuck at 13.2V.
The last week to 3/11/23 I have had the panels on my balcony north facing charging my Lithium 100 AMP .
Conditions have been cloudy at best and most of the time raining. The battery has reached a resting charge of 13.4 which I understand is 99%. I recently could not get it to that on mains power charging.
So it would appear that the KickAss rhetoric to buy quality not price rings true once again.
We are about to embark on a 6 week tour of Tassy with the caravan and hope to do a lot of off grid work no doubt in those sub optimal sunlight conditions.
So I will update KickAss how it goes in mid February”
