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Ideal for trickle charging any vehicle battery to ensure easy-startup
Protect battery from seasonal temperature fluctuations
Protection from prolonged battery inactivity and continuous power draws
41 x 34.5 x 1.3 cm
Link multiple panels for solar power array

Canadian Tire Warranty:

This product carries a 5 year exchange warranty redeemable at any Canadian Tire store.

Additional Product Information:

For customer support call: Sunforce Products 1-888-478-6435

NoBlue Planet Solar Panel, 5.5W

Overall Rating

3.9 out of 5

Quality

3.9 out of 5

Features

3.9 out of 5

Durability

3.3 out of 5

11 Ideal for trickle charging any vehicle battery to ensure easy-startup. Protect battery from seasonal temperature fluctuations. Protection from prolonged battery inactivity and continuous power draws. 41 x 34.5 x 1.3 cm

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5 out of 5

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5 out of 5

Features

5 out of 5

Durability

5 out of 5

Whitehair

Location: Kemptville, Ont

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Absolutely no Complaints

Date:September 3, 2011

"I use this panel to charge a small 4Ah battery that drives 2 12v PC fans in my solar air heater. It has been outside in the Ottawa winter for three years and is still going strong. I ran a bead of silicone sealant around the seams. If you size your requirements to what the panels can do, you'll be happy with these guys. Two thumbs up!"

+7points

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Overall Rating

4 out of 5

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5 out of 5

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5 out of 5

Durability

1 out of 5

grumpa

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not enough power.

Date:July 22, 2011

"this item,although compact,was not sufficient for charging for my purposes.would recomend for a trickle charge.I was trying to keep a deep cell battery charging while running a small fridge/freezer over the weekend.this unit could not keep up and took 4 days to not complete the charge whith-out anything on.I got the bigger one of 1A 15 watts."

+3points

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Overall Rating

4 out of 5

Quality

4 out of 5

Features

4 out of 5

Durability

3 out of 5

argotech

Location: Carlisle, ON

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Great item. peroid

Date:July 26, 2009

"I love having a solar panel around. For the past year, its been hooked up to my motorcycle battery, and i noticed that the motorcycle starts with less effort. Keeps the charge longer, and it is an old battery."

+9points

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Overall Rating

3 out of 5

Quality

3 out of 5

Features

3 out of 5

Durability

3 out of 5

camper356

Location: Hamilton, ON

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curious,

Date:June 1, 2009

"I bought this panel, and hooked it up to my battery on my pop up camper, as directed but for some reason it doesnt seem to work. My battery was fully charged when I left home, but after a few days of camping the battery died even though it was hooked up to the panel. Any suggestions?
I made sure the panel was in direct sunlight"

-29points

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Overall Rating

5 out of 5

Quality

4 out of 5

Features

5 out of 5

Durability

4 out of 5

Warbaby

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Great Buy

Date:November 19, 2008

"Great item and works exactly as described. This product is rated at 5.5 W and not 5.5 A as the last review stated. Puts out about .5 A at almost 12 V. Great value."

+24points

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Overall Rating

1 out of 5

Quality

1 out of 5

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1 out of 5

Durability

1 out of 5

Burnie

Location: Kitchener Ontario

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Terrible Product

Date:August 5, 2008

"They rate this at 5.5amp's, I had it checked & it was putting out .5 amps, wouldn't trickle chg. my deep cycle battery worth a darn.
I would not recommend this to anybody, mine is going back to the store today."

-46points

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Overall Rating

3 out of 5

Quality

3 out of 5

Features

3 out of 5

Durability

3 out of 5

humourcar

Location: Stratford, Ontario

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very handy for my rv

Date:June 3, 2008

"We recently installed a deep cycle battery on our RV and thought it might be handy to have a solar panel to charge it during the day.
This little panel does a great job of that. Just wish it came with a storage bag to protect it."

+16points

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Overall Rating

3 out of 5

Quality

2 out of 5

Features

3 out of 5

Durability

1 out of 5

loupee

Location: Ottawa

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5.5W solar

Date:May 23, 2008

"I was disappointed in this unit. it didn't handle the wind well and was damaged. Maybe the one I got was just a dud though."

-5points

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Overall Rating

5 out of 5

Quality

5 out of 5

Features

5 out of 5

Durability

5 out of 5

Bjorn

Location: Brandon, MB

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Great Panel

Date:April 9, 2008

"I use this panel together with two 1.8W panels mostly in the summer in my garage window to keep my portable battery charged. Sometimes I run a radio through a Nautilus inverter or other little gadgets from my battery. The panels always get the battery charged back to full after a few hours. I run this configuration for the past 2 years and it still works like as when it was new. It also teaches my kids a great lesson in ways of generating green energy."

+19points

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Overall Rating

4 out of 5

Quality

5 out of 5

Features

3 out of 5

Durability

4 out of 5

Jamst

Location: Ontario

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Very good

Date:November 19, 2007

"I make a lot of short trips and in winter that puts a lot of demand on my car battery. This panel is just the thing I needed! The out put was good enough to even directly run my car seat massager in summer! I wish the package comes with a female 12V plug!"

+12points

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Is this panel sufficient?

Question:

would this charge a marine battery in 5 days?

Anonymous

5 months, 1 week ago

Answer:

Maybe. It depends on how many Ah the battery is and how low it has been discharged.

This panel is 5.5w at 15v in order to charge the battery, meaning it will produce .37A. The calculation for an average day is 5 hours of sun so on average it will produce 1.85Ah. More on a summer day obviously or if you move the panel to track the sun.

So in 5 days it will produce 9.25Ah. If your battery is say the Nautilus which is 33Ah and is depleted by about 25%, then yes it will. At 50%, no, it won't.

Whitehair

- Kemptville, Ont

5 months ago

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Can This Power a Sleep Ap Machine all night?

Question:

I am trying to find something to power a sleep ap machine. My family and I do a lot of camping and power is not always available.

JCMCP

7 months ago

Answer:

Buy a power inverter and hook it up to a car battery.The inverter had to be at least 200 watts for my cpap

Anonymous

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Answer:

Unfortunately we cannot answer this question without more information. It will depend on the machine's consumption (Watts or Amps). A 12V battery will be involved as well in determining the run-time capacity.

CanadianTireTeam

5 months, 1 week ago

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Product Dimensions?

Question:

What are the dimensions for this product? Is it small enough to fit in the front windshield of my car?

mitchapolooza

7 months ago

Answer:

The dimensions are 13.25" x 14". You should have no problems fitting this on a car's dashboard.

CanadianTireTeam

5 months, 1 week ago

Answer:

it's a little bigger than an average laptop and a little thinner.mine was on my dash and it also fit on my front door window sills of my ford E350 r.v.

grumpa

- wpg.mb

6 months ago

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i have a rechargeable 6v lantern battery (6V5AH), can this charge them individually or is it best to put them in series to charge

wasltd

11 months ago

1 answer

Would this charge a sealed lead acid battery?

Question:

I have a 12ah sealed lead acid battery and i was wondering if two of these would charge it up? i normally bring it down to 9.24 or so.

offthegridsolar

- Listowel ON

11 months ago

Answer:

No, it's not enough. This panel produces 0.36 A (5.5W / 15 V), to charge it would take 33 hours of sun (12 / 0.36), maybe 7 days during the summer, slower in the fall and not at all during December. Also, the self-discharge of the battery is probably 0.1A, so it'll actually be slower. I'd recommend the 15 watt panel.
Do you mean 9.24V or you figure you leave 9.24Ah? If it's 9.24Ah (how do you figure so closely?), then maybe this would be enough, but if it's 9.24V, you're overdraining your battery and it will die much sooner, you definitely want to get the 15 watt panel.