MidNite Solar MNKID-B MPPT Charge Controller 30A in Black

I am very impressed with this company, and the charger was 200 bucks cheaper than elsewhere. I bought this to replace my other 7 year old Kid controller that stopped working, but it died from something I probably did incorrectly, fried fuse circuit from too much voltage and now they have protection built in for that fortunately. My solar panels output was always right on the edge of too much and having two in tandem would have been better. These controllers are real champs and I've been extremely pleased with them over seven years with an off grid home built set up that entirely powers my metal workshop. Midnite Solar builds top notch products! This seller on Amazon is a well trusted Texas company and they inspected and tested the unit before being packed up, and it came boxed in that expanding foam all around to keep it impeccably cushioned from damage. Being so much cheaper than elsewhere I was hoping it wasn't unwise, but I'm real pleased with the seller for sure and will buy from them again with confidence. I haven't even had a single problem but know they’d really stand behind their product and have great customer relations. If you need a quality built care free American made solar charger, you will not go wrong with The Kid controller and this Amazon seller

that this is doing the job. This was installed by an electrician. It seems to be working. Now what i will say is that I ordered black and received white, but not a problem for me as it is in the solar shed.

I ordered this charge controller because I had unexpectedly shorted my midnite solar 200v charge controller when moving the solar from the stand alone array to being roof mounted on a pergola. I have lived offgrid for seven years and the original midnite solar equipment worked perfectly until my boo boo. I needed something to keep the lights on while waiting to send in the other controller to be fixed. Due to Covid amazon wasnt going to be able to ship the product to me until the 29th but I would have been in the dark for over a week by then. I spoke with the seller , stellavolt, via email and they were able to overnight it to me from their texas warehouse and i was back up and running this afternoon having only spent a single night by portable lights!

Without question awesome controller for the cost. Many cool features that are real useful. Only issue I ran across was if you want to use an inductive load you’ll need to provide an isolated relay to keep load from causing internal damage. The user manual doesn’t provide an example for this type application (Inductive Loads). Like a pump requires. But it’s a great device I’d recommend to anyone. Later

evidently all mppt controllers are not created equal: Same PV array puts out 10-15% more juice than with the old controller and i really like the load clipper, we use it for dhw, full batteries and a hot shower, woohoo!

After 2 years voltage reading is really bad and damaged 4 Trojan batteries . Changed wiring. New batteries and ney fuses. voltage reading is always wrong even if I use voltage offset when is no sun voltage reading is too low on the kid but good on multimeter

Nice controller.. but you can easily find it for $200 less anywhere else.

I have 2 of these units. They are well built and made in the U.S Those are the pluses.I have had nothing but issues with them. Firmware updates are problematic, controllers go into rest mode and will not activate/charge, Midnite Solar provides good customer service, but I would not recommend these units at all.