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Imagine a spare battery charger for your smartphone or tablet that's completely powered by the sun. Yes, a solar powered charger! That's exactly what MyCharge has introduced with its highly capable MyCharge PowerFold 8000 solar charger. But will it work for you?
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the PowerFold 8000 and finds that it is indeed a great addition to your emergency kit, and might be useful post-apocalypse too. If you're into that sort of thing. :-)
Check it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2nTM8gM
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Never run out of power as long as there's sunlight. Let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking this out. This is the my charge power fold
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It's an 8,000 milliamp hour battery, but what makes it cool is that it comes with and it includes
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Solar charging so what the company says is that four hours of direct sunlight equals quote
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One full phone charge, so I'm thinking that's about 2,000 milliamp hours
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Which means to go from zero to fully charged you need one full day of sunlight in the summer
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But on the other hand if there's no power anywhere Then just being able to get some power into this device is pretty handy
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Now one of the cool things about it is that it actually pops out of the solar holder
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So if you don't need the solar panels, you can just carry this around It's nice and slim and basically it's the size of a smartphone
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But it is 8,000 milliamp hours now by comparison. Here's a Galaxy s8 and this is somewhere around
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2,200 milliamp hour battery so that means this could give it three full charges now if you don't want to deal with the Sun
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Seriously get out occasionally it's okay But if you don't want to deal with the Sun, then it does have a micro USB charging capability cable included
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And then to charge you actually have just two USB 3 ports
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So you need to be YOW bring your own wire, right? So that's what I have here
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So this is a USB 3 to USB C Which means that it's easy enough for me to go ahead and charge my Samsung
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let's just plug this in and I will push the button to turn this on and
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We are charging. So I know there's not much to see on the screen, but this is charging
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So easy enough that works fine now turns out it has one additional secret superpower
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that's what this thing here is and I have to hold it down for a couple seconds and
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It's a flashlight and there's even an SOS mode, but I'm not going to turn that on because it'll probably give me a headache
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So now one of the cool things about this also is that you can actually charge up to 2.4 amps on your output
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So that's good enough that makes a tablet charge up So it's a little faster than a lot of the like one or 1.4 amp chargers
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So, let's see the solar panels as I said, they are, you know, the whole sort of unit is removable
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Unfortunately, if you leave this in the Sun while you're using this nothing's gonna happen because there's nowhere for it to store that energy
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That's pretty much all that there is about this This products at an interesting point in its lifespan though, because it doesn't show up on the my charge website
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But it does show up on Amazon So I think it's so new that it actually hasn't even made it onto their website now
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Admittedly, I'm not much of a prepper. So I'm not really worried about a post-apocalypse or the end of the world
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But you do lose power And so if you do lose power and their cell towers are still working which is often the case
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Then it is nice to have an option that you can just leave out in the Sun
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You know, I just pull this out of the drawer leave this it has to be in direct Sun
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You can't leave it and have the Sun coming through a window doesn't work the same that window is gonna get rid of a lot
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Of the important I don't know solar power is necessary for these to work
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So leave this outside and then come back at the end of the day And this is gonna be if not fully charged and then pretty darn charged now, it does show it has some indicators super subtle
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there's a little green indicator that says I am collecting power from the Sun and
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Then there are four blue bars that can tell you that it's in use
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And or it can show you how much charge it has if it's off and you just push a button
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So I can see I have all four bars. So this is fully charged. So super important to have that feedback, of course
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And Kind of that's it. It's a fairly simple straightforward product. But this is the kind of thing
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I always think of these is like put this in a drawer and When the situation arises you can pull it out and now you've got coverage and you have the ability to charge
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Even if your power grid is down for a day or three or something
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So post hurricane post flood post earthquake post, I don't know whatever
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You have the ability to still power and therefore charge your portable devices. So pretty handy
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The only thing left to talk about is the price, but you know what? No, let's talk about one more thing
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Let me talk about the size So this is eight and a half by four point one by about one point four inches
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Including the folded up solar panels and it's eleven point seven ounces. So it's really surprisingly light
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In fact solar panels are super light If we take the actual battery out of this thing then
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the part that's left This is really like just a couple of ounces. This is super light
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You could actually like, you know, I don't know tie this to the back of your backpack while you're hiking
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Obviously you would need this so you would store them at the electricity But you could do that and this would be absolutely no problem
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You wouldn't even notice and then when you get to your campsite, boom, you got another fully charged battery. Cool
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So let's talk about the price but before we get there, let me ask if you yes
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I always appreciate that feedback or I guess thumbs down, but seriously, don't leave me thumbs down. Come on
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Okay, so this is the my charge power fold and it will cost you
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$59.99 at amazon.com And I think that whether you're a hardcore prepper or you just want to be prepared because you're out
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Sailing or you're hiking or wherever you are where you're far far away from electrical outlets. This is a really smart investment
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So I say check it out. And with that I will catch you in my next video
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