Renogy800W 12V Monocrystalline Solar Premium Kit Rover 60A Charger Controller

I purchased this kit to put rooftop solar on my 16' travel trailer. It took some research on the Renogy website to figure out the wiring for proper installation, but I'm pretty handy and was able to figure it out just fine.My trailer has 2x100 amp-hour LiFePO4 batteries wired in parallel. Our electrical demands when dry-camping are not all that large. We don't have an inverter and only run the 12 volt stuff when 30amp AC power is not available. This means interior and exterior lights, water pump, heater, fans, and the propane fridge. We the most we ever run down our batteries is to about 85% state of charge by each morning.On a sunny day, we're 100% within a couple of hours and cloudy days or sites with little sun, we almost always recover fully by sundown.I did not use the included mounts for the solar panels because I was not comfortable drilling my camper roof and using well nuts (not included). Instead I used the Renogy Corner Bracket Solar Panel Roof Drill-Free Mount for RV with 3M VHB tape which works the charm.For my set-up there was plenty of wire between the panels and charge controller. However, in order to reach from the charge controller to my battery bank it was necessary to purchase some 8AWG wire as the included cables were simply too short to reach the needed distance.The bluetooth app is nice to see how the panels are performing, but it's not absolutely necessary since all the info other than the history is available on the display on the controller. Be aware you need a shunt (not included) to actually monitor state of charge.All in all I'm pretty happy with this system. We just returned from a 31 day, 4400 mile trip with our trailer and I never had to worry about my batteries at all. We always had more than enough power to do everything we need to do.

I got everything laid out and dry fitting the panels and wiring and realized I couldn’t make the connections for my series/parallel setup.It was almost 5 pm and Platt electric was closing soon. I had to wait until next day to pick up the parts and return to my toy hauler to complete the install.Wish I knew this ahead of time!!!Any who, install was simple, once I figured out where all the pre-wiring was at, hence my location for the charger.Everything came on line and after 2 weeks my batteries are always charged and it produces more power than what I use with everything on except the roof top AC’s.I’ll be expanding my solar panels in the future now that I’ve gained some experience.Except, next time, I’ll be going with the 550 watt panels and later charger in parallel configuration to up my requirements for the AC usage

Equipment seems good. Wiring diagram for Amazon advertisement sets up a 24 volt battery system. The Renogy inverter I ordered separately was 12 volt only. High likelihood of equipment damage. The system I bought from another company had a very nice set of printed instructions that came with it. For the price I believe they could include clear, printed instructions in the box.

In my opinion, the kit was incomplete because it didn't include enough connectors to install without making additional purchases.

After 1 week in the sun 1 panel has developed a area the size of a golf ball that looks like a bubble in the material, not sure IF it affects the performance or just cosmetic, we had no bad weather yet and it was not in any area where something could have fallen on it either, Just Odd! Charge controller was much larger than I expected so be sure to check you`re measurements to prepare a suitable place for mounting first!