How reliable are these solar panels

[ianabc]

How reliable are these used panels appear to be from a farm?

from Bimblesolar in Brighton

No connection (pun)

 

[nigelmercier]

No link?

Used solar panels should be avoided, unless very new.

 

[Seajet]

They don't show ' signs ' of traffic pollution and come on a sawn off steel pole by any chance ?!

 

[NickRobinson]

The site looks quite credible.
SH 120w panels for £50 collected (Brighton) is hard to beat and could be worth a punt. (Not me, no space)
P&P bumps that by £18 though.
http://www.bimblesolar.com/solar/individual
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[Norman_E]

The Schuko grade B panels look good if you have the space. A single 235 watt panel with an MPPT controller which can handle the input voltage and output 12 volts would be enough for most boats

 

[charles_reed]

The Kyocera panels (KB I guess) had a 20 year warranty and are amongst the best-regarded in the industry. However they're inefficient compared to new panels (10% cf 18% conversion).
Having flirted with cheap PV panels I'd be disinclined to buy any of those listed - current prices for new panels direct from the importers being little different in price, much smaller for a similar output and likely to be producing >80% for the full 20 years.

 

[macd]

P&P bumps that by £18 though.

Or possibly more: seen where the OP lives?

 

[laika]

Postal address given only as "Near Lewes" and an outer London dialling code for a phone number?

 

[NickRobinson]

Or possibly more: seen where the OP lives?

Does the sun go that far round?

 

[Rhyddid]

Thread drift.... Slightly.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...d-make-every-window-and-screen-a-power-source

Can this be a marine application? Jack