Gadgetory

so last year when I was hiking around Havasupai and away from a charger for a couple days I thought it would be really nice to have something that was solar-powered so I could recharge my phone my drone and my camera batteries having a decent working solar panel would mean I wouldn't have to carry as many batteries or power banks on long trips if you have a solar panel you could even take your pokemon hunting expeditions way out into the boonies so I decided to finally get a solar-powered charger so today we'll see how well it works or even if it's worth our time to set up inside we have four panels that can receive power from the Sun and there are four little rings two on each end so you can hang up the panels from trees or hammocks or tents and angle it towards the Sun on this side we have some instructions and on the inside it comes with one micro USB charging cable and it has four USB outlets two of them are 2.4 amp and two are regular one amp USB ports it also comes with a little carrying sack and two carabiners so now that we have it let's take my galaxy s7 active with its four thousand milliamp battery and charge it up outside using only the power of the Sun so I just plugged in my galaxy s7 active it's a little bit damaged but this phone is freaking expensive so we're going to use it for another video it's going to take an hour and three minutes to charge it's at 45% so I'm going to switch it over to the solar charger and see how long that takes so obviously solar panels work a lot better when there's a lot of Sun in this guy so today there's hardly any clouds it'll be the perfect day to test out our solar panel so it might be a little hard to see but it says an hour and thirty two minutes until fully charged so a half hour longer we'll see if that's what it actually takes it's completely unfolded we got the two hooks at the end just in case you want to hang it on a tree or a hammock or something like that we have the four panels here and then we have four USB ports and a little LED light to tell if there's power going to it or not so I have in one of those two smart ports the 2.5 amp and I'm going to tuck the phone underneath so it doesn't get hot from the Sun there we go so it's been a half hour and we have 52 minutes until fully charged and the phone is at 71% so it's moving along pretty quick that's impressive so we'll leave it plugged in a little bit longer and see what happens so it's been plugged in for about an hour now we have 28 minutes left until it's fully charged it's at 85% we started at 45 percent so it's a little bit slower than plugging into the wall but still this one is being charged by the Sun so now I'm testing the charging on my one plus three and my galaxy s7 and it's charging them both at the same time so this can charge multiple devices at once so obviously plugging your stuff into the wall is going to be little bit faster than using a solar powered charger but sometimes you don't have wall power access I imagine that the easiest thing to do would be to pair this with a power bank and just leave this at your campsite or wherever you're working and charge up the power bank all day just keep in mind that when you charge up your power bank and then use your power bank to charge up your phone after that it's not as efficient and you lose some power between each transition so it's much more efficient to plug your phone directly into the solar power charger so you don't lose any energy between the transitions either way I'm pretty impressed with how fast this charged my phone it went from 45 percent all the way up to 100% and about an hour and 20 minutes I did start charging my phone at the peak brightness of the day though I started at 1:15 so you'd get less power in the morning and less power at night but if using a direct sunlight right in the middle a day that's when you get the most power from it if you have any questions leave them down in the comments below I will keep this video updated in the video description I'm going to be using this over time I'm headed to Thailand next week and I imagine I'll be using it quite a bit over there so we'll see if it starts to fail or if it stops charging as fast as this first time thanks stuff for watching hope to see you around