Is a portable solar charger something you should consider as part of your standard equipment?
You have latest and greatest of technology gadgets to get you as productive as possible. You are connected up to the hilt with 3G,
personal hotspot or good old wifi. There’s only one thing that still chains you to a building: power.
If it weren’t for that tiny little detail, you could do all your work sitting in the park, at the beach, and frankly, anywhere except your actual physical workspace.
Forget work and productivity. Think about watching home movies or listening to TED.com talks on your iPhone, iPad or Galaxy Tab. You know that you will need to think about where to plug in after a few hours. Not cool when you’re right in the middle of your beach party / birthday picnic / camping trip.
Now there’s a cool, environment-friendly solution.
Best Portable Solar Chargers?
There are literally hundreds of solar chargers out there, ranging from small, pocket sized ones that use a mixture of internal battery and solar power, to the notebook-sized Apple Juicz Solar Panel when packed, but producing a massive 27 W of solar power – enough to charge your Macbook in 8-12 hours!
What do you look for in a portable solar charger?
Since it’s portable, it’s a good idea that it be of reasonable size so it can fit into your backpack or your latest Luis Vuitton tote.
- A good portable solar charger should be sturdy as well, to withstand being folded and packed away quickly.
- There must be enough power output to charge up your device(s). Ideally, it would be great if you can charge anduse your gadget at the same time.
The sCharger-5 from SunTactics
Introduced last year from the California based company (I love their name!), this nifty little device is impressive:
- It’s almost as efficient in charging as plugging into the wall into proper power.
- You can use your gadget while it’s charging. This is a major plus.
- This portable solar charger will let you run even completely dead devices using just its internal mechanics and the sun’s energy.
- There’s no internal battery that can leak, break or wear out.
- Non-toxic, clean and as green as you can get.
- It folds into a neat package so the entire portable solar charger can fit into a small CD wallet, perfect for any elegant handbag.
- Water and weather resistant, making it a very useful portable solar charger for those picnics on the beach or at the park.
- You can use standard USB chargers to connect to your devices it and it outputs 5 Watts.
- Suitable for iPhone, Blackberry, iPod, Android phones
The sCharter-5 is one of the best selling portable solar charters, with an average customer rating of 5 stars:
Fits into a CD wallet
- It is the only way I charge my Ipod now. I bought a CD case and take this solar charger with me where ever I go.
- The Suntactics worked great with my iPhone 3, 4 and my iPad. My son and I went river rafting for three days this last summer. During the day we ran the rapids while we charged the iPad. Each night we had full batteries while we watched movies in our tent!
- I’ve used the item to charge a Kindle, palm pilot, and HTC EVO. Charging the EVO worked really well. It charged from red to full green in about 2 hours in an airplane window.
Click here for more information and customer reviews from Amazon.com on the sCharger-5 portable solar charger
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