Powermonkey-Explorer V2 - Yellow

I recently used the PowerMonkey and it worked great! I charged it before I left, used the charge and used the Solar panel to recharge it. Everything worked great. I highly recommend this product for those in the field.

I bought this for my husband as he takes long bike/camping trips on the north shore of Minnesota. We powered this up and charged his cell phone as a trial. His cell phone was completely out of juice. After the PowerMonkey eXplorer finished charging the cell phone, the bars on the PowerMonkey display hadn't changed and was still at full power. This will be invaluable on his bike trips. He also has a Nook and an iPod and this item will charge those, too! Amazing little thing and powerful! It will keep all his gadgets charged up and I won't have to worry about him being stuck somewhere without an uncharged phone! This would also be great on long overseas flights. We will try out the solar part of it next! Don't ever go anywhere without this cool little thing. Worth every penny!!

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Replaced this with a Brunton Inspire and USB Solar panel when it failed to take a charge after only three months of use. The seller will do nothing for you after 14 days, and the manufacturer is in the UK and a few reviewers here report that they do not respond. I doubt I will buy another monkey battery to use with all the junk it came with because so far the Brunton products are working very well. Of course the Inspire is a closeout and any lithium battery has a typical lifespan even on the shelf but so far so good.

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takes two or three days to charge phone or kindle. don't bother. buy something better with more power storage/ bigger solar cells

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It worked fine for a month or so, but when I went camping and really needed it, the solar charger wouldn't fill up the battery pack. I left it in the sun for 2 hours, and the pack wouldn't even turn on to charge my phone.

Then when I recharged it using the wallcharger back home, the fully-loaded battery pack wouldn't even charge up my ipod touch fully with a full charge.

It's possible the version I got had a faulty battery or something, but since I tested it for a month before going out and it bailed on me at a critical juncture, I'm really soured on the PowerMonkey.