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Solar Panels
2-Year Warranty on solar panels from Premier
Warranty covers the efficiency of the cells only and does not warrant the glass, frame or cells against breakage caused from weather or abuse. Premier's 30 day guarantee covers products that return undamaged and at original functioning level.
How do solar fence energizers differ from battery energizers?
Both are battery energizers with different power sources. Solar uses an attached solar panel to recharge a battery. Non-solar battery energizers must be recharged every few weeks by attaching the battery to a battery charger.
Isn't a solar-powered fence energizer the least expensive to operate?
It's a myth. The cheapest fence energizer to operate plugs into 110 volt AC current. Proof? A HotShock® 150 provides 10 times more energy output than most farm-store solar units. Yet it uses less than 70 watts/day (equal to a 3 watt bulb). That's 25 kilowatts per year--an operating cost per year of about $2. And the initial cost is also less. By comparison, the battery in most farm-store solar fence chargers (which provides 1/10 the energy output of Premier's HotShock 150) costs about $20 and needs replacing every 2 years (on average) for an annual operating cost of about $10.
How powerful are solar energizers?
To keep the price low, most farm-store solar energizers provide output levels that are too low to cope with drain from weeds contacting a "hot" wire. They're also too low to stop difficult animals like sheep, goats, stallions, bulls, rabbits and deer (even without weeds).
Why are some solar panels brown?
Brown panels use amorphous silicon to produce electricity. Sparkling blue panels use crystals. The brown panels are cheaper to manufacture per watt of output, but they need more surface area than the blue panels to produce the same energy per hour. Both of them are good panels.
How do solar units differ?
- Input requirements of the energizer (in milliamperes per hour).
- Output in joules of energy. But they rarely differ much in volts even if the pulse energy output is 5 times greater.
- Size of internal battery in ampere hrs.
- Number of days the battery will last on its own without sunlight.
- Cost, durability and value.
Why nonrechargeable batteries for 20B and Kube 250 energizers?
Because they cost less, pose less risk of premature battery failure, and result in fewer escaped animals. A 75 AH EzePower battery will power a solar 20B for over 150 days even if the sun never shines--300 days if the fence is clean. The solar panel extends the usable dry battery life by reducing the battery drain from dawn to dark to virtually nothing--even when it's cloudy. Also, EzePower batteries weigh less and disposing of them is less harmful to the environment than for rechargeables.
