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I bought the Big Blue 28 watt 2.4 amp 3 port folding backpacking solar panel as a lightning deal on Amazon for $60 instead of $80. It works GREAT directly propped up facing the sun, charges my phone like a fast charger. But leaving it flat on a table in the sun, nothing...in a window with light but not really direct sun light beaming on it, nothing.
So 5 months out of the year it will be useful, the other 7 not so much? I have one of those little folding battery bank solar deals that charges my phone 3 times but not sure about this one. Figured it would be a good way to power my phone easily and reliably in SHTF without having to have a HUGE solar off grid setup at the house with panels all over my roof that scream "prepper lives here!"
So 5 months out of the year it will be useful, the other 7 not so much? I have one of those little folding battery bank solar deals that charges my phone 3 times but not sure about this one. Figured it would be a good way to power my phone easily and reliably in SHTF without having to have a HUGE solar off grid setup at the house with panels all over my roof that scream "prepper lives here!"