cheap solar panels

I would guess they only exist in the scammers' imaginations. :)

I looked at this. I noticed that nowhere does it say these are new. I would guess they are "used & renewed" panels.

I've been running across quite a few cycling gear scam sites lately and this site reminds me of those. The site seems "clean" and free of spelling errors or other obvious scam language. But the prices are too good to be true. For the cycling sites, you can go to the "about us" page and look at their listed address and do a Google street view and see that the address is clearly not a sporting goods retailer. Other more savvy folks pointed out web tools that ID the site as suspicious, like they have done here. Too good to be true, they'll happily take your money and deliver no product and hope you don't bother with refund since you spent relatively little. I used paypal with a cycling scam site and got a full refund through them.

I wouldn’t trust that website at all. All the info is lifted off the Renogy site:

https://www.renogy.com/320-watt-monocrystalline-solar-panel/

The lowest retail price I ever saw for brand new panels was $0.22 cents per watt. The fly in the ointment was you had to order 10 of them. Then the USA started doing protectionist import duties.

For these panels that works out to $70.40

note that these (according to the spec sheet) are NOT 12V panels!!!!!!!!!!!!

OC voltage is 40V, so I suspect they are a 24V panel or more so you need a MPPT controller to get anything close to rated output if your going to use them for your RV.

Dusty R wrote:
I once read that Michigan is the 47th in the 48 Continnetnal States of available Sunshine. So how long does it take to pay for a Solar set up here in Michigan? Is there any info posted on all areas on of how long it takes for Solar Panels pay for themselves?

I'm sure there is less sun in Nunavut than where you live

I'd consider poly rather than mono.

This may help:

https://sunvalue.com/program/?headline=Solar%20Panel%20Payback%20Calculator&id=2&s=GS&s1=19508613490&s2=143682520254&s3=644190977165&s4=solar%20panel%20payback%20calculator&s5=c&r=6346f6ded6e7c&gclid=CjwKCAiA8OmdBhAgEiwAShr40xlJFwD-uZoXDzRZzDbJzrWlyRZK8hF5CGKomIpy_zMN7dZgq-7tshoCMvIQAvD_BwE

How long does it take to earn back your initial investment in solar panels? A solar payback period is the amount of time it takes for property owners who install solar panels to recover their initial investment through electricity savings. In Michigan, the average solar payback period is 11.85 years.

What did they say when you asked for an address to pick them up in person to avoid shipping damage?
Will they let you test them (Voc and Isc) before you hand them cash?

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profdant139 wrote:
Thanks, piano, for pointing this out -- yes, it might be a scam, but it is worth looking into. As my kids used to say when they were teenagers, "Good lookin' out, dawg!" (I'm not sure where they got that phrase, but it sometimes comes in handy.)

Really, there is no "might be a scam". They post all of this stuff so cheap you don't really feel it's worth it to fight them to get your money back. Guarantee you won't get any solar panels.