T-5000 Hybrid Solar Battery Charger AA NiMH USB Power

• Recharge 2 pieces of AA NiMH rechargeable batteries from SUN POWER or digital devices with USB port
• Power up your digital devices from 2 AA batteries in emergency
• Designed for most popular brand of mobile phones, iPods, MP3/MP4 players and portable games device
• Dual color indicator
• T-5000 Hybrid Solar Battery Charger

have had this for a little over 2 weeks and it works good. it even gives a slow charge to batteries under normal indoor light. I tried it outside and it charges batteries fast and with no batteries in full sun it charges my cell phone well through the usb port. indoor light is not enough to run the USB with enough juice to charge a phone, but it does charge batteries indoors and can use the batteries to charge a USB device.

Under solar power only it is not enough to run some of my higher demand devices but it does most fine, and when running of 2 AAs it runs the USB hot enough to charge most anything I have.

All in all it seems a good unit and I paid less than $20 for it with shipping I recommend it to all my friends,

The only design flaw is that the little loop at the top is not quite big enough to fit a carbeener through so I had to attach a keyring to it in order to clip it to the outside of my pack. perhaps in the future they can mold it with a slightly larger opening.

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This charger is great! It completely charged my ipod in less that 3 hours! However, the connections that come with it don't fit well with some phones. It works fine with USB cords that you already have for your appliances/phones, though.

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I purchased the hybrid solar charger hoping to use it on a camping trip, but in testing prior to the trip I discovered it's not even worth taking. Prior to purchase I knew of some product flaws like there being no off switch and needing to remove the batteries when not charging, but the flaws are worse than I imagined.

Initially I tried to leave the charger in my sun room which receives a good amount of sunlight, but the charging light didn't even come on during the course of a few hours. It needs really strong sunlight to "turn it on." After which I could bring it back inside to the sun room and it would continue charging with the light on. I tried this over the course a few weekends and only once did the batteries actually charge. Every other time one of the batteries completely discharged. At first I thought I had a bad battery so I tried multiple batteries with no luck. The batteries were Energizer NiMH and they have performed well in my Xbox 360 controller.

I knew the charging speed would strongly depend on the brightness of the sunlight, but I didn't expect that more often than not charging in the sun would drain the batteries rather than charging them.

The reason I chose this model of solar charger was it's support for AA batteries because I figured I could always bring extras and use them to charge my camera at night. This didn't work out so well either. Numerous times I tried charging my cell phone as a test case and not only did my cell phone not charge, but it seemed to lose charge at a faster rate than it would have if the charger wasn't plugged into it.

I'm not sure if I've waited too long to return this thing, but hopefully I can at least discourage others from buying it.

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be advised the device does not come with rechargeable batteries. Make sure you compare the cost of batteries when comparing the 2 devices.

**update** 2012-10-11

Don't buy this product. It really isn't worth the money. the couple times I tried to charge my cell phone with it, it never worked.

This is a decent product, but I do think it would be nice to have an 'off' switch. There is only charging the internal batteries or charging a device off of them. It would be great to be able to switch it off without having to take the batteries out all the time.

I dunno. I bought this because it was inexpensive but then I had to go and buy $35 rechargeable batteries for it, anyway. I'd probably go with something a little more solid next time.