Feele Solar Powered Battery Charger
With a lot of extra time on my hands, I decided maybe I needed a solar-powered battery pack for my phone. I found a FEELLE 24,000 mAh pack on Amazon for $39 and bought it. (This was one of my first videos, made as the pandemic began: “first we run out of toilet paper, then for some reason the power goes out.”) With the power out, we all need to charge our phones, and a solar charger may be an option.
What it is
- A 24,000 mAh battery, a built-in flashlight, two USB-A ports for charging devices, a Micro-USB port for charging the battery, and a trio of solar panels.
- It weighs 1.2 pounds, with a snap that keeps the three faux-leather-backed panels folded together. It feels like a brick.
- On the side: four blue lights that show the battery level and a green light that shows when it’s charging via solar. On the bottom, the USB ports are under a dust and splash guard. On the back: the power button and flashlight. Press the power button once to see the charge level, and hold it for the flashlight, which has three modes.
- To charge by solar, unfold the panels and point them at the sun. The seller claims IPX65 rating, so there are plenty of placement options for direct sunlight.
Charging results
The output is 5 V at up to 2.1 A. It charged my iPhone from about 8% to almost full in two hours and my iPad from under 50% to full in about three hours. FEELLE claims it can charge most phones 10 to 12 times, which sounds pretty good even if it ends up around eight. With the solar charge rate I saw, if you charge two phones once a day and get a few hours of direct sunlight at least five days a week, you should be able to keep your devices working for a long time in the event “society completely collapses.”
Verdict
It seems to do what it claims: I verified that the battery charges on solar and that I can charge my devices. Will it support you for a period of time with no power? I hope we don’t find out, but I think so. If you have questions or other devices I should try, drop them in the comments.
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