This morning at 4:00 am my dog woke me by pushing me with his nose and sitting staring at me, I woke up, I'm thinking WTF hunter? then I noticed the power was out, great dog! So I let him out and the he's running around looking at the darkness, still a 6 month pup and as I'm standing there watching him ...or trying too ( he's mostly black) I thought hey time to get out the night vision goggles and give they a try on hunter see what he looks like ! My Gen III run on AA Batteries and they are dead . I had stored them in the case not in the unit. So my dilemma is... I need to set up a solar charger for Batteries I had totally missed that while setting up my supplies. so this brings me to my Question does anyone have any real experiences using a portable solar charger? I am looking for something like this one: Brunton F Solaris 26 cheap portable solar panels battery charger camping power battery charger solar 12v batteries charging
That is offley expensive I have been using a small one from China for a couple years now, and it seems to work ok. If I remember right, I only paid about 25.00 for it. Will charge aaa, aa, d, and c. There are much cheaper units around that will do pretty much the same job if those are the only batteries you need to charge. Unless you want to spend that much money
I want it to roll up or fold up and be portable, and be able to charge all of my electronic equipment and have the anti back feed feature if i am unable to disconnect at night. Brunton Solaris 26 Will Charge: Laptop - Charge 4 - 8 Hours Portable DVD Player Charge 1 - 3 Hours Cell Phone Charge 1 Hour Digital Camera Charge 1 - 2 Hours PDA / MP3 Player Charge 1 - 2 Hours Satellite Phone Charge 1 - 2 Hours Portable Game Console Charge 1 - 2 Hours Digital Camcorder Charge 1 - 2 Hours RV/Car/Marine/Snowmobile Battery Charge - 12 Hours
If for mobile use - maybe - but DANG they are expensive! For home use, use a HF 45-watt panel set and get a more versatile unit. Keeps a couple deep cycle 12V batteries charged, and you can use a 12V auto plug-in charger for cell phones and laptops, and use one of the cheaper units for charging AA, AAA and D-cells. And maybe not a bad idea to keep a couple packs of the old non-rechargeable AA around for this type emergency. I use them so much, they will never sit long enough to lose charge - cycling them through the use-cycle is not a problem!
When you find and buy what your looking for, how about passing it along for us. We all use the same batteries for a lot of the same things. Nadja
Here is one from Cheaper than dirt, same price. I have no experience with it. GSE-35125 - Global Solar Energy SunlinQ Panel 25Watt Charges Radios Phones TV Games
Quigley. Just found the same one about $50.00 cheaper for you here. Don't know anything about them though. RV Protection Products: Global Solar Sunlinq 12.5 watt 12v Flexible Solar Module
Portable Solar Battery Charger | Portable Solar Panels | Off-Grid Solar Generators | Goal Zero - Extreme Portable Power Here is one that comes with a battery pack also.
