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(More customer reviews)I've been doing a lot of offshore sailing lately and decided that I needed to find a way to keep my smart phone, ipod, and kindle charged up while away from 110 power. I had a cigarette lighter type charger for my phone, but nothing that would work for the others. Since I'd be outside and in the sun a lot, I figured solar was the way to go but wasn't sure that I'd be able to find something that would work for all three devices.
I spent a lot of time looking around online and saw plenty of chargers. Most of them were actually chargers with batteries - the solar cells charge a battery, and the phone, ipod, whatever charges off of that battery. Charging a battery to charge my device seemed like having an unecessary "middleman" to me, so I kept looking. Then I found the Suntactics PC5. This solar charger charges directly via USB - no middleman battery. I had a trip coming up the first of October, so I figured I'd take a chance and try it out. I purchased my PC5 charger in September, 2010.
I used the PC5 on that and a subsequent trip covering almost all of October and November - It worked flawlessly. It actually seems to charge my Droid X at about the same rate as my AC charger, and my ipod faster than the battery operated speaker I use at home). It works great for charging my kindle too. I just open the PC5 up, set it in the sun and connect whatever I need to charge.
While heading out east for one trip, I was stuck at O'Hare airport for a few hours and couldn't find a free outlet near my gate, so I just took a seat near the window and charged in the sun. Every time I set it up I got comments and questions about the rig.
The charger works great, is compact and easy to carry/store and it's "green". What more could you ask for? I couldn't be happier with mine.
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Powerful Solar Charger for iPod, iPhone, Droid, Blackberry, Palm and most all small electronic gadgets including GPSs, eReaders, and portable gaming devices. It even charges the iPad in good sunny weather. This is not an ordinary small solar charger. These use high efficiency solar cells like the ones used in industrial grade solar systems. The solar cells in the PC5 charger really pack a punch!See if any other small solar charger can match the same solar energy output in such a small package.Other solar chargers use a small solar panel to trickle charge an internal battery, which takes forever! Their solar panels are too weak charge your device directly. So they charge your device from an internal battery instead. When the internal battery fails(which it inevitably will, since it's being baked in the sun constantly), you have to throw the whole thing away. The PC5 solar charger will not only charge your device, it will run it directly from the sun.And it will last for years. Use the PC5 solar charger to charge your handhelds while camping, on picnics, at the beach, by the pool, or ball games.Use it to solar charge your devices when there is no other power available. Take it hiking with you to charge that GPS device Use it for emergency power and disaster power relief. Most of the time cell phones still work when there is no electricity.Be the only one with a fully charged phone! No power no problem.Loose your wall charger? Why not start charging from solar?
