BougeRV Yuma 200W CIGS Thin-Film Flexible Solar Panel with Pre-Punched Hole

I am reviewing the latest solar panel I purchased, but I do own a lot of them now. I have been purchasing these for over a year I think. I have eight of them, and I bought four additional panels for my son's set up. I love these! I just love them. I have to say they are pricey but I have bought other suit case panels and rigid panels and they overall do not compare. The suitcase panels are cumbersome for me as I am 68 year old woman who is physically active and healthy but I do not like wrestling with the flopping around of the suitcase style panels. The BougeRV flexible panels are just that, flexible. When I want to move them, which I have a few times, I just roll them up and wrap a piece of velcro strap to secure the panel and off I go. They have been on the roof which is the best place for where I live as I do not have much yard space. I took them down because of the wind and I do not want to permanently install. They are very thin so I made simple frames and screwed them on the frame and currently lined up in the back of my place leaning against a block wall. Now as far as quality, if you haven't seen YT Hobo Tech, he does a good review. I have not tested these as extensively has he did. I can say they have held up really nicely due to the wind. They have scratches which hasn't created problems. Like all solar panels they will only produce so much power. Mine are 200w panels and I get about 100w plus. During the peak of the day I get over 400w out of the 800w set feeding my Bluetti. The other four panels are feeding other power stations. I know I could get more but I do not go out and adjust them except during the winter months once in a while I will try to direct them to the low sun and to get a little more out of them. Pricey yes, durable yes. I am actually totally sold on these. I plan on moving sometime this year so I may be buying more later on to feed my addiction to solar LOL.

Picked up the BougeRV 200W CIGS panel for my camper van, and it’s been a solid upgrade. Mine came with the predrilled holes (not the peel-and-stick version), which actually worked out better for my mounting setup. I bolted it straight onto my roof rack with no issues. So far, it’s been performing really well—even during cloudy days or when part of the panel is shaded, I’m still seeing a decent charge coming through. That’s been the biggest difference compared to my old mono panel, which would drop to almost nothing if even a corner was shaded. The panel is super light and flexible, but it still feels durable. I like that it’s low profile and doesn’t stick out visually or add much weight. It’s handled highway driving and some light rain with no problem. Overall, very happy with it. Definitely not the cheapest panel out there, but the efficiency and shade tolerance make it worth the extra cost. Would recommend for vanlife, RVs, or anyone trying to keep a stealthy or lightweight solar setup.

I’ll come back to review when I get it hooked up to let you know the performance

I now have bought a third panel. Keeps 305ah of agm topped up while running entertainment, starlink gen3 etc. the flexibility has been extremely helpful with pvc, zip ties, and bungee cords have survived extremely high winds at glacier np ********************** I have now seen 316w out of the pair so upgraded to 4 stars. Will see after the rv season is done. *********************** I have a 40a renogy mppt controller. Also the bluetooth set up. I have always seen acceptable voltage on this panel and the one my wife bought. I have never seen the wattage we bought. We should have ~200w out of each panel. I upgraded from 2 great producing renogy 100w panels that each over performed. This seems at best currently a pricey ($800 for two panels on two accounts in a lightning deal) "trickle"charger. Whats up with the issues of renogy mppt not getting the juice. I've got some 8g and 10g hook up cables that i use to deploy when needed and the flexibility and durability were the draw for me but in 3 outings I've never got good solar watts in parallel or serial deployment

Whether you use the $80 coupon (100W flex panel) or the $170 coupon (200W flex panel, they will send you an already used, partially damaged panel. There is NO designation anywhere that states they're looking to sell their used, returned solar panels, they just assume you'll keep it & save them the headache. What's to keep BougeRv from giving you a damaged solar panel ever time you have a warranty claim? You might think the marked down price is good initially, but how many of these already-used & damaged solar panels are awaiting shipment? A lot of these panels are destined for returns, and that's what you are buying: an already-used & worn down solar panel. DON'T BUY BOUGERV SOLAR PANELS. You don't know what you are going to get delivered, and they willingly try to deceive customers by lazily swapping in clearly damaged goods under the guise of a discounted price. I selected the "hide in amazon box" option since something like this catches the eye of thieves. Did they really just try to hide a clearly damaged & returned item in there?! I mean, look at those pics! Did they really think they could get away with this?! Shyster business practices originate from shyster management. Don't trust these people. They offered an additional coupon, offered to exchange the item; they think they can buy off their deceit with an extra $50 off (up from $20 off in the email chain...). It's not the price BougeRv, it's the principle. You intentionally attempted to deceive a customer.

They out-produce my old panels, and put out much closer to the rated output. My old cheap chinese panels were supposed to be 100 watts each, and I was only getting 21 watts each out of them. These are 200 watts each and I am getting 150-175 in fall weather in New England. When spring comes, I expect them to get very close to rated power. I installed them on top of the sunbrella canvas bimini on my sailboat with rare earth magnets. I bolted 8 magnets to the grommets on the panels, laid them on top of the bimini, and went underneath and put a second magnet below at each of the 8 locations. Has held great in winds up to 35 mph so far worked great!

I was a little apprehensive about these panels and all soft solar panels at first. We placed these on our yacht bimini. We attached it with screw in neodymium rubber coated magnets about 2" wide. One magnet screwed into the panel the other on the inside of the bimini. It holds very well we have traveled about 4000 NM threw countless storms. We installed them in the north east coast. At first I was very disappointed but in winter in the north east there is not to much sun. We have 4 panels and saw on average 200-300 watts. We traveled south down to Florida and bahamas and on average 600 watts. We are very impressed even on a cloudy day it's the same. They are continuing to work great.

They don’t tell you what size the pre-punched holes are. So now I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere, outside the US, without a way to re-punch the holes for the bolts I have, let alone get the new bolts. Buy your solar panels locally.