Is there a way for me

Delia_Cardei

Morning guys, a good guy on MSE told me that I should post my question here, so I'm here

Hi. Is there a way for me to chain multiple, folding, portable solar panels together in order to draw more power? Or I have to move to a big watt solar power panel.

Is there a simple way to link two portable panels together to charge a single power bank, or am I making this more complicated than it needs to be? I found the 60W solar panel on sale with 30ish quid off voucher code 2OIANBUD, I thought its quite decent. What do you think? Or do you guys have other good ideas to chain the panel together?

Specifically, these are the devices I'm using:
EC Technology Portable Charger 22400mAh External Battery Pack with 3 USB Outputs - Black and Red https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDK2G2C/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_JLa7xbPBTW6FH

Devices that I might give it a try:
60W Portable Sunpower Mono-crystalline Folding Solar Panel
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mono-crystalline-Notebooks-Cellphone-Electronic/dp/B017TNZWSU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1484736599&sr =1-1&keywords=60W+Portable+Sunpower

Thanks in advance

Ectophile

Not very easily, no. The panels have a 5V/2.1A output for charging gadgets. But 5V at 2.1A is only about 10.5W - nowhere near what the panel is capable of generating. Their main output is at 18V, which is no use for charging a power bank.

Even if you did develop a box of electronics to link several of these panels together to give a bigger current, then either the power bank would still only draw about 2A to charge itself, or the power bank would be fried as it was charged too fast. Which of those would happen depends on the quality of the power bank.