@ShotgunX Actually I just looked at an unboxing video and according to the specs on the battery itself it has 6.2 Ah - Menards listed the voltage differently from the first party literature, visible 2:25 in this
I’ve ordered this. First one managed to recharge once via solar (after once via USB wall outlet); after the battery drained (barely bringing my phone from 20% to 60%) the solar panel wouldn’t work. The panel came out fine after testing, but it was the battery that had issues. I found it can be forced to recharge again via wall outlet, but the battery crashes afterwards (I can recharge my phone from 60% to 66%; and you can see the digital display count down the remaining power as soon as I unplug it).
Meh did send me a replacement, and it did function at the full 6 watts (charged to 100% via wall outlet, full discharge, full recharge via solar) fully charging my phone while still having some power left. And the battery did last longer, but after a few months of solar recharges (it takes ~4 days to get to 100%), it’s starting to behave like the first one (where the power reading starts dropping when the sun disappears).
As an added caveat emptor, there are two USB-C ports and both can technically function as inputs (only the first is labeled as such), but you’re not going to get as much by plugging the solar panel into the second… or the first; for each new day, you have to unplug and replug the panel into the first USB-C to get the maximized recharge rate. Odd quirk I don’t know how to explain.
What’s Included?
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Aug 24 - Thursday, Aug 27
Not specifying the capacity is crazy work.
Guessing it’s 20,000mAh or less.
@ShotgunX Spot on. Menards lists it as having 99 watt-hours at 5 volts, which is 19.8k mAh.
@ShotgunX Actually I just looked at an unboxing video and according to the specs on the battery itself it has 6.2 Ah - Menards listed the voltage differently from the first party literature, visible 2:25 in this
@ShotgunX this is definitely very less.
I’ve ordered this. First one managed to recharge once via solar (after once via USB wall outlet); after the battery drained (barely bringing my phone from 20% to 60%) the solar panel wouldn’t work. The panel came out fine after testing, but it was the battery that had issues. I found it can be forced to recharge again via wall outlet, but the battery crashes afterwards (I can recharge my phone from 60% to 66%; and you can see the digital display count down the remaining power as soon as I unplug it).
Meh did send me a replacement, and it did function at the full 6 watts (charged to 100% via wall outlet, full discharge, full recharge via solar) fully charging my phone while still having some power left. And the battery did last longer, but after a few months of solar recharges (it takes ~4 days to get to 100%), it’s starting to behave like the first one (where the power reading starts dropping when the sun disappears).
As an added caveat emptor, there are two USB-C ports and both can technically function as inputs (only the first is labeled as such), but you’re not going to get as much by plugging the solar panel into the second… or the first; for each new day, you have to unplug and replug the panel into the first USB-C to get the maximized recharge rate. Odd quirk I don’t know how to explain.