Honest Review of the X-Dragon Solar Battery Pack
You might recall a while back that I wrote about my plan to get a little solar charger to charge my Kindle and my phone with, the idea being that my electric bill is pretty darn small so even that small piece being made solar (since I rent an apartment and can't install roof panels or some such) would make a dent.
Yeaaaaaah ...not so much.
Pros:
It's sturdy af. Nokia sturdy. You could totally toss this in a backpack and take it with you to charge your drains-in-a-few-hours smartphone while you're out and about.
It has a decent enough battery capacity that it will charge my Kindle Fire once if it's full, so it should do the same for a smart phone.
As a backup battery, I do recommend.
Cons:
The solar panels do approximately bupkis.
It takes A MONTH to charge the battery to 75% capacity using just solar. I repeat: ONE MONTH = 75% FULL. It even says it's charging in lamp light, so several days I had it in the sun during the day, and by a lamp at night:
that light on the side means it's charging
...and still after a month of this, it was only 3/4 full. That isn't "a slow trickle,"as one review warned, that's one percentage point shy of useless.
As a solar panel, don't bother.
I chose this one because other solar options I could afford were just panels and no battery; that is, I'd have to stick my Kindle in the window along with the panel and charge it directly. Apparently, the po'folk price point means you either get a small battery (this), or a bigger panel (that). It's possible if I went and bought a bigger panel now and plugged it into this battery, it might work as a system, but I don't know.
So if you wanna take a battery with you while you're out hiking that you charge in a wall socket first, it works. If you want to power your devices off grid, it's a brick.
Ya live, ya learn. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Do y'all have any small scale solar setups that work?
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That's disappointing. At one kindle/phone charge a month that's going to take a long time to earn it's keep. I'm glad for this review, though - I nearly went and bought one!
I'm glad I saved you the expense then!
A month?! There's no shortage of sun where you're at, taking that long to charge up from the panels is a crying shame and whomever designed that should be ashamed. 😂
Thank you!
Man! That is not a slow trickle charge! That is it's almost dead charging. One Month! I can't wait that long for a charge...
Right??
How much it costed you??
$30.
Then it will be economical I guess.
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