Portable charger

[Treeborn Wanderer]

Anyone had any experience of this hip flash style iPod/iPhone charger?

http://www.time2.co/review/product/list/id/223/category/32/

It's going cheap in some site at the moment but scared it might not be worth buying. Blurb says it can give up to 50hours of charge time which would very handy at work methinks

 

[jacko1066]

I would be interested to no where you have seen it cheap mate? Looks a brilliant bit of kit!!

 

[Andy BB]

I'd check with Paul first - he can normally come up with some recommendations for charging kit a lot less than that for similar specs.

 

[rik_uk3]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120984322810?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 slightly more power, a third of the price. You won't get 50 hours charge time, it will charge your phone two or three times and will charge a tablet once or more.

 

[Treeborn Wanderer]

Cheers mateys. I saw it on a thing called mighty deals, one of those cheap for limited time only type things I think, I've got it as an app on my phone but there's probably a website of the same name kicking about, my friends bought jumpers and things off there before and said its reliable enough. It's going for about £27 down from £80 so I'm tempted. I like the design of it, seems like it might be fairly rugged too. Hmm I'm tempted but I like the look of the one you posted from eBay too, plus it's a bit cheaper, will have to have a think. The hip flask one is cheap on that site thing for another 2 days I think

 

[jacko1066]

Just came across this on Amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digibaba®-2...TF8&colid=2SU3Y2BKSHRCC&coliid=I2QTU5KN8HKFCI

Looks pretty good for the price!!

 

[petrochemicals]

www.aliexpress.com/item/3W-6V-flexi...foldable-very-slim-solar-panel/582058547.html

30 quid 150g waterproof free shipping , charge your phone in an hour and a half in sun, probably 3-4 in cloud

equivalent brunton £€$'s

 

[Treeborn Wanderer]

Ah nice one they look tasty too. Not sure how well the solar powered one would suit me in sunny Scotland, probably better relying on one that I can charge at home before hand I think

 

[rik_uk3]

I'm looking for a bigger solar charger now but it will still be a back up for the back up if that makes sense.

 

[petrochemicals]

ok. Heres the king of all back up batteries.

www.sejats.com/Sejat-ZERO-1-Universal-12000-mAh-Solar-Battery-Charger-ZERO-1.htm

12000mah
3 to 19 volt
solar panel charger
mosquito killer
torch
etc

thats worth the 80 quid

 

[Treeborn Wanderer]

I like that, tonnes of phone charges of it. My only worry is the use of a solar charging bit, I've really had no experience of them. Are they all that useful in cloudy uk?

 

[petrochemicals]

at the moment there are polychrystaline less efficient , more tempremental and monocrystaline more efficient less tempremental at low light. If the panels 5w it charges a 5w phone battery in ideal conditions in one hour . I found in bad conditions it takes 2 to 3 times as long with the monocrystaline pane in the winter as light is poorer quality and and the cloud blocks the sun. I think with the polycrystaline panels you can say goodnight in bad conditions, probably the problem with the early ones !
In scotland in the summer you should have about 18 hours of usable high quality light, in the winter, thats a different story. I suppose you could try wind or hydro electric, but you could use that in the summer too !

Edit.

Yep. In poorer quality light spring autumn winter you need longer, they're at their peek around noon. A 5w charger will probably charge your phone in about 3 hours around noon in mid april, and probably twice throughout the day. In the full summer with no cloud probably three to four

 

[Treeborn Wanderer]

Nice one cheers for the grand explanation. Need to save some pennies before I splash out on something I don't really need but kinda fancy having