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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
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Notice in the photos of that product, there is a picture of it on a motorcycle with a shadow cast upon part of the array. That would totally kill the output of a monocrystalline or polycrystalline solar cell array. Luckily, this appears (from the title) to be a thin-film array, and thin-film solar cells are not subject to those severe limitations imposed by partial shadow coverage on crystalline arrays.
For camping use (where there could be trees and shadows) that film array should work quite well. Although there is only one from amazon fullfilment, amazon shows other sources too...