You want panels to go straight into the yeti.
Using solar panels to charge yeti 400 through anderson.
Be warn it is huge.
The guide times for charging the yeti 1250 battery using just 1 boulder 90 solar panel was 27 54 hours of sunlight.
Once you ve got your battery you now need a way to charge it directly from the sun aka solar panels.
No since the goal zero yeti power stations have at least one charge controller built in you shouldn t go through another charge controller before the power reaches the yeti.
Goal zero yeti is a well respected brand in portable solar power generators.
Improper use may result in damage to your vehicle the cable and the unit buy now.
There are different yeti sizes from 400 to 3000 watt hours.
The goal zero solar panels use the 8mm connector.
This is an amazing solar panel.
Powering the battery 2 x boulder 90 solar panels.
The 8mm input port can handle 150w per port so if you max them both out you would be at 660 watts of solar panels.
If you have the goal zero mppt charge controller you can connect up to 360w of solar to the anderson power pole input.
The yeti 1400 lithium is able to charge simultaneously mostly do to the fact that it can have the second charge controller added to it.
At full charge the goal zero yeti 400 can fully charge a laptop 5 times a mobile phone 30 times and run small household appliances like a coffee maker for several hours.
Use only with yeti 150 400 1250 portable power stations or sherpa 50 100 power packs.
The renogy panels require an adapter in between to turn the mc4 into either anderson power pole or mc4 to 8mm.
Allows you to charge your yeti lead acid or sherpa from female cigarette outlet.
How fast will a solar panel charge goal zero yeti.
Goal zero yeti 200x portable power station nomad 20 solar kit.
The yeti lithium solar charging optimization module is an external mppt and when installed properly actively monitors the energy source you re using to charge the goal zero yeti lithium and optimizes the source to maximize power resulting in up to 40 faster charge times especially from solar panels.
Goal zero yeti 400 power station boulder 100 solar kit.
Goal zero yeti 400 power station boulder 50 solar kit.
Goal zero yeti 400 power station boulder 100 briefcase solar kit.
The unit has an anderson power pole output not the traditional 8mm like the small panels from goal zero.
This panel set up when hooked up to my yeti 1000 lithium through the optional mppt solar panel adapter from goal zero i get about 150 180 watts per hour on a clear day.
Let s translate these watts into what you can charge.