Cheap solar battery charging

[Rusty74]

80w solar charger came today(duno if it is 80w)set it up bearing in mind its been over cast here today but it put 30% into a power bank in around 4hrs,that id bought from bnm for £12,so not a bad 1st attempt at solar charging

The Goodmans B and M chargers are ok. I have 3

yes thats the one i have bought to try this out,the kids looked at me and said "oh dads getting into the 21st centuay at last" cheeky buggers lol

[jansman]

80w solar charger came today(duno if it is 80w)set it up bearing in mind its been over cast here today but it put 30% into a power bank in around 4hrs,that id bought from bnm for £12,so not a bad 1st attempt at solar charging

The Goodmans B and M chargers are ok. I have 3

yes thats the one i have bought to try this out,the kids looked at me and said "oh dads getting into the 21st centuay at last" cheeky buggers lol

I keep them in to power emergency lighting, and recharge batteries for torches etc. I have others, but at 12 quid, they do the biz.

[Rusty74]

The Goodmans B and M chargers are ok. I have 3

yes thats the one i have bought to try this out,the kids looked at me and said "oh dads getting into the 21st centuay at last" cheeky buggers lol

I keep them in to power emergency lighting, and recharge batteries for torches etc. I have others, but at 12 quid, they do the biz.

this the same thing im planning with them,so now the test run seems to work ok so will buy a few more along with the solar panel chargers,have just ordered some usb light bulbs,as i seem to have a focus on lighting this month what with the hurricane lamps lol and looked in my stash and forgot i had esso blue parrafin about 2litres of it left

[jansman]

yes thats the one i have bought to try this out,the kids looked at me and said "oh dads getting into the 21st centuay at last" cheeky buggers lol

I keep them in to power emergency lighting, and recharge batteries for torches etc. I have others, but at 12 quid, they do the biz.

this the same thing im planning with them,so now the test run seems to work ok so will buy a few more along with the solar panel chargers,have just ordered some usb light bulbs,as i seem to have a focus on lighting this month what with the hurricane lamps lol and looked in my stash and forgot i had esso blue parrafin about 2litres of it left

The usb lightbulbs are spot on.

[Yorkshire Andy]

80w solar charger came today(duno if it is 80w)set it up bearing in mind its been over cast here today but it put 30% into a power bank in around 4hrs,that id bought from bnm for £12,so not a bad 1st attempt at solar charging

The Goodmans B and M chargers are ok. I have 3

Is that the 10,000mah ones with solar panel on one side? Was looking at them this weekend just gone but I was good and resisted what's the inbuilt solar like is it as poor as I'm guessing been small

[Rusty74]

80w solar charger came today(duno if it is 80w)set it up bearing in mind its been over cast here today but it put 30% into a power bank in around 4hrs,that id bought from bnm for £12,so not a bad 1st attempt at solar charging

The Goodmans B and M chargers are ok. I have 3

Is that the 10,000mah ones with solar panel on one side? Was looking at them this weekend just gone but I was good and resisted what's the inbuilt solar like is it as poor as I'm guessing been small

this is the 10,000mah one but without the solar panel on it

[Yorkshire Andy]

The Goodmans B and M chargers are ok. I have 3

Is that the 10,000mah ones with solar panel on one side? Was looking at them this weekend just gone but I was good and resisted what's the inbuilt solar like is it as poor as I'm guessing been small

this is the 10,000mah one but without the solar panel on it

Well I fell into b&m today they had 2x different 10,000mah power banks one with a funky led/ LCD power display and another a ipx5 water resistant one with the built in solar panel. Bit chunkier but given its water resistant and solar guess which I went for ok it's only a 1 watt panel but shtf one watt is better than no watts and been waterproof the upstairs windowsill will be a fitting safe place to leave it if needed

https://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/goo ... ck-3817291

All the boxes were damaged lass on the till looked at me like I'd done it as she tried to get into the box know the wife has said at her place people try to stash high value stuff within a cheap item .. perhaps pulling the lansky world legal knife out my pocket to open the box telling her to chuck the packaging in the bin wasn't the best idea but it was automatic the knife gets hammered at work

[Rusty74]

Is that the 10,000mah ones with solar panel on one side? Was looking at them this weekend just gone but I was good and resisted what's the inbuilt solar like is it as poor as I'm guessing been small

this is the 10,000mah one but without the solar panel on it

Well I fell into b&m today they had 2x different 10,000mah power banks one with a funky led/ LCD power display and another a ipx5 water resistant one with the built in solar panel. Bit chunkier but given its water resistant and solar guess which I went for ok it's only a 1 watt panel but shtf one watt is better than no watts and been waterproof the upstairs windowsill will be a fitting safe place to leave it if needed

https://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/goo ... ck-3817291

All the boxes were damaged lass on the till looked at me like I'd done it as she tried to get into the box know the wife has said at her place people try to stash high value stuff within a cheap item .. perhaps pulling the lansky world legal knife out my pocket to open the box telling her to chuck the packaging in the bin wasn't the best idea but it was automatic the knife gets hammered at work

iv picked 3 more of the power banks up with the fancy led screen to bring my total to 4 now,kids look at me daft and welcome me out the dark ages,plan on buying two more of them solar charges off ebay again and plan on caring on playing about with solar stuff lol

[Yorkshire Andy]

I still like the cheap china panels for what they are .. they are almost disposable in terms of price

Longevity wise one I use to trickle charge aa or AAA batteries is starting to yellow guessing that the UV killing the clear plastic gell

[jennyjj01]

Latest addition....

I guess a question for Yorkshire Andy...
... You know how I buy everything you link to...?

Well, I bought one of these, no regrets, but with my newly bought multimeter, I sort of tested it.....

It looks like it throws 5V straight at the 1.5V batteries and maybe limits the current to about 110mA each(constant current?). The LED lights never go green or out. So I suspect they are brute force chargers. After a few hours the batteries were all warm. Does that tell me that the batteries might be getting over- charged?

I opened the battery charger up, as you do... And there doesn't seem to be any electronics in there at all. apart from the lamps.

Should we ever trust these to leave batteries on trickle charge. I'm leaning towards 'probably not'

I understand that rechargeables can take some abuse, but were these false economy?