- 6.25″ L x 2″ W
- Solar charger
- Outbound USB charger
- 3-function light
- Strobe setting
Product Description
This compact solar charger is a great camp mate. With a USB outbound charger, it’s capable of charging most USB compatible devices, including iPods, cameras, and cell phones. Plug your own cable into the outbound chargin… More >>
Well let me say this, I’m new to the whole solar charger thing. But I can find use for having one on hand when you’re out in the field, especially with how technologically minded campers today are. I found mine as I was perusing the local sports show in town and thought hmm this device has a good price and on clearance why not give it a try. The device was missing any form of a manual (unknown if it actually had one to begin with as none are featured on the company web-site) so I deployed the Scientific Method to figure out how it worked. It came with an extension cord, USB and IPOD attachments, as well as a Y shaped piece that appears to be designed to hold the IPOD and USB attachments to something (As for or to what I don’t know). Not owning a single IPOD that particular attachment went right into storage.
Day 1 Test: Right out of the box the device had no charge. As it was a cloudy day for this test I deployed it under a halogen lamp to start charging it. After thirty minutes the power button turned red indicating it was charging. Deciding to test it out I connected my ATT Tilt Smartphone to it and summarily discharged the Sol Jus’s battery. It appears that if one is going to recharge a device one should let the Sol Jus get a full charge before doing such. The Red light also appears to indicate a form of power level for the solar cells as well. That meaning if it is placed in direct sunlight it glows bright red, partial sunlight a dim red, and cloudy you have no light.
Day 2 Test: Further charging appears to confirm suspicions that connected devices are charge via the internal battery rather than directly from sunlight. With the sun being out finally device was deployed in direct sunlight for the entire day. Even so after a full day of charging under both a halogen as well as direct sunlight still was not enough juice to charge the Tilt Smartphone.
Conclusion: The device may be enough for charging a basic electronic device, but more power hungry devices will require a more robust generator. Still its small size does make it useful to throw it in the pack.
Rating: 4 / 5
I have had this little solar charger for about three weeks. I should state that we have not really had any full sun days here in SoCal during that period. But after days of leaving it charge in the daylight, the best it could do was a 0.5 charge of my Nano and after another couple of days a 0.25 charge of my razr cell phone. Pretty weak. I’ll try again when the sun returns but I’m not holding out too much hope. This product would be better if you could tell when it was fully charged and if you could also plug it into the wall to fully charge.
Rating: 3 / 5
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