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Magazine Reviews and Evaluations

Blue Sky Energy gets rave reviews from the sailing worlds most prestigious consumer reports
magazine “Practical Sailor”. Read the article by clicking here.

Reviewed in Modern Boating magazine,  February 2007 edition

Sandia National Laboratory "Evaluation of a PV Battery Charger Using a Maximum Point Tracker ". Sandia evaluates the performance of Solar Boost 3048.
Sandia National Laboratories, Quarterly, Volume 4, 2001 (printed 7/02) Review of SB3048

"Sunwize Technologies Solar Boost review by Steve Bell"  A discussion of why MPPT and why choose Solar Boost charge controllers. Steve concludes " I have found the unit to work as advertised and real-life performance gains to be consistent with the data presented previously in this article."

"Things That Work" review of Solar Boost 2000, Home Power Magazine October/November 1999, "This charge controller and current booster is an ideal match for PV systems. During times of lowest temperature and lowest battery voltage, the current is boosted the most."

"Things That Work" review of Solar Boost 50, Home Power Magazine June/July 2000, says this,
"Every so often a product comes along that significantly changes the RE industry" and it concludes,
"If you are not using a Solar Boost 50 MPPT charge controller in your system, you're wasting some of your expensive, PV-produced power."

"What is a Charge Controller?" by Windy Dankoff is reproduced on our site with permission of Home Power Magazine and the author. From the September 1999 issue, it discusses Maximum Power Point Technology (MPPT) and we highly recommend it to you for informative reading.

Customer Comments

February 2003 - Warren Harkey, Sr. Engineer, Physical Science Laboratory / National Scientific Balloon Facility comments on the SB3048.

September 2002 - SB2000 and SB50

April 2001 - Electron Connection

April 2001 - comments on the Solar Boost 50

February 2001 - Sunlight Solar

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