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Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2025
The best budget charge controller out there. I wish it was more than 60amps. Their hundred amps version is too expensive. BTW, I don't care about the noise, it's music to my ears every day.
Thomas Shults
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2025
I received this yesterday, and when opening the box, it appeared to be packaged well. Once I removed all of the foam around the charge controller, I saw what looked like soot near the connection point. Closer inspection showed not only soot, but visible damage around the PV+ side of the system. I believe this is supposed to be a new item, and this one has scuffs, burn marks, and a damaged wire connector. Beware if you buy this, as it may be used and abused.
Lisa
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2024
I recently purchased the MakeSkyBlue Solar Charging Regulator, and it has exceeded all my expectations in every possible way. As someone who is starting their solar journey I have been trying to source an affordable and reliable charging regulator . This product has proven to be the perfect solution. The delivery time was excellent. I do recommend this product 10/10!! It was also easy to install and use. It was very well packaged and the display is very reliable and appropriate for the environment.
Dugan
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2023
Unit works great, I use it with 250 Watts of Solar Panels to charge a 200AH Bank of LIFEPO.Previousloy used it to charge lead acid batteries as well.There are 2 different settings to choose from Lead acid or Lithium.The Lithium setting prevents overcharging above 13.6V
Manuel
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2023
What could be better are the terminals could be bigger. It's simple easy to understand the readout display and adjusting settings are easy is what I like most. It has been working great.
DRH
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2023
I am using this with a 160v four-panel solar array to charge a 48v stack of old Nissan Leaf batteries. I was charging the batteries with a plug in charger, but this works better and most importantly works off-grid. It was basically plug and play. It detected the battery voltage and keeps it under 60v. It detected the solar panels and just started working with no setup required. I did also use two two-pole breakers to make it easier for disconnecting the panels or the battery
Peggy S
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2021
The Manual Stinks Ok. However after playing with it a bit I figured it out. Unit was installed Way over a year Ago. In a remote Location charging 4 Golf Cart Batteries to a 24volt power inverter to Keep a 120volt 60HZ 0.5 HP well pump for livestock. Like I said remote location no grid power at all. It had been 1 year six months and this thing is still working. I made a trip out to the watering tank just to check I was sure it was toast. Live stock have had water the entire time. Not Bad. And the price was real good. If you are DIY on Solar and need batteries powered up and Solar power on a well. This is a good choice. Hate to say it it is Chinese made.Aug 2022. This thing is Still working just fine. Its now june 2024 and I forgot this thing is installed. Still working setup and forgot about it. It has not burped of fail Thought you might want to know.
Juan
Reviewed in Mexico on September 25, 2020
Se ve robusto lo probaré ya instalado
ル・パン
Reviewed in Japan on February 24, 2020
外見ははっきり言ってその辺のおじさんがパンパンと作った感じです(^^;クラスが3クラスありまして自分が買ったのは真ん中です、バッテリーはacデルコのM32直列24Vで使っています、初期の段階で16.5Vで二日間チャージして満タンにしてから使用しました、そうなんですこのチャージコントローラーは色々自由に設定が出来るんです、この値段でもう言うこと無し、この次もこれで組もうと思っています。
DBO
Reviewed in Canada on November 19, 2020
I have been using this for few months now with no issue, work great , Good Value for the Money.
John J Kroeker
Reviewed in Canada on January 31, 2020
so far works well impressed how much it can actually pull out of you solar panel's
Jim
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019
This charge controller seem to work fine so far and never exceed the battery voltage setting like the PowMr version that I bought. This was critical for me since when the output voltage exceeded the setting, my inverter shutdown and making the PowMr charge controller unusable and unsafe for the battery and the inverter.This MakeSkyBlue charge controller does track the max power very fast, however it doesn't seem to lock at the maximum point compared to the PowMr. With my 1020 Watt solar panels setup (4 255 Watt 60 cells panels in series), I regularly get over 1000 Watt from them with the PowMr, but with this MakeSkyBlue I only get around 800 Watt max so subtract 1 star from the rating.Update: further testing indicated that the PowMr charge controller might have reported the power from my solar panels incorrectly over estimating it, so this MakeSkyBlue charge controller solid for now. I have driven it to 2.4KW (about 45Amps) with no issue so far; it does get hot to the touch at this power level but the temperature was capped at 52 Celsius.Update 2: reduced 2 stars due to a similar issue as noted by the other reviewer. This controller doesn't search wide enough to find optimal power when the solar panels are partially shaded. Shaded solar cells still produce almost nominal voltage but very little current and this control will lock on to the max power using this small current at high voltage which is very little power. The maximum power in shaded solar panels are actually at lower voltage but higher current which flows from unshaded cells through the bypass diodes built into the panels bypassing the shaded cells. So if your solar panels are never shaded or don't care when they are shaded then this controller is okay, but otherwise this is not a true MPPT controller, which should periodically scan a wide range of voltage/current combination to find the optimum power.
Kevin S
Reviewed in Canada on December 5, 2019
Straight forward installation.Works as as it should.I started using month of November.So little sun. But works.
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