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Enerplex Surfr Amp solar charger & iPhone case review
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May 30, 2025
Think you're prepared for the zombie apocalypse or at least the next time that you lose power in your house? If you have the slick Enerplex Surfr Amp iPhone case, you've got it covered with its 2700 mAh backup battery and emergency solar panel built in to the case itself. It doesn't mean you'll never need to charge your phone again, but it's a smart combination and a slick, attractive case too. Review by Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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hi Dave Taylor here and you know I
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thought I was done looking at iPhone
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cases but another one came along and
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it's actually really interesting
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so I decided we'd break our trend of not
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looking at yet another print or yet
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another piece of rubber but actually you
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know look at this particular case so
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this is from enerflex
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and it's called the surfer amp and
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apparently they can't afford all the
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vowels so it's su RF our amp but all
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kidding aside it's really kind of a cool
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idea so it is an iPhone 6 and 6s case
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with a battery in it so you see it's bit
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thick and it has a pretty standard
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design where it's two pieces and you put
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the top part on to lock the phone in and
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built-in lightning connector and
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everything but what makes this really
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interesting is what's on the back on the
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back our solar panel there are little
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solar cells now you're thinking okay
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hang on let me think about this and this
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is my first thing that I said to the
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company was I put my phone in and
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everything's going hunky-dory and my
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phone needs charging and so I put it out
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in the Sun and the first thing that
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happens is it heats up and the phone
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says I'm too hot I'm gonna turn off if
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you haven't experienced that you will
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during one summer afternoon when you're
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sitting outside with your friends you
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have a nice cup of iced coffee or iced
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tea or something and your phone's just
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sitting in direct sunlight and it
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doesn't take very long for it to trigger
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the internal heat sensor now what they
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pointed out was actually an excellent
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response first off this is really only
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in emergency situations so post zombie
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apocalypse if you still need to play
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candy crush this might work it takes
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about 24 hours of direct sunlight for
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this to charge its own battery 100%
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which is a whole lot better than taking
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forever like every other battery case I
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have but really this is a battery case
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and what they pointed out when I made
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that objection about the heat
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temperature in the
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phone itself as they said take the phone
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out of the case and then you leave the
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case in the sunlight and you let it
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charge there
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so it's really actually a really cool
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idea so I can imagine having this like
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on the top of my backpack when I'm out
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in the wilderness and then at the end of
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each day I plug in my phone and maybe I
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get in half an hour of talk but you know
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what that's a whole lot better than
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nothing
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and it's charging its own batteries so
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worst case you never use this other than
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sort of as a neat idea and you just
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simply have this as an external battery
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and it is a 2700 milliamp hour battery
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so it's not bad it's about one full deep
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charge for your phone and what I like
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about it in addition to the whole
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concept of the solar which i think is
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fun is that when you have it on your
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phone
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it really doesn't add much thickness to
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things so your phone is very usable the
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entire front screen is right there and
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then if you want to obviously you can
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switch on to the back and now I'm
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charging and should come up on the front
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here that I'm charging and you can see
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here's my little blue LEDs you actually
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probably can't see that but little LEDs
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show me that it's a fully charged
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battery here so darn handy anyway this
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is the inner plex surfer for the iPhone
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6 and 6s maybe I should hold the box up
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a little more interesting integrated
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solar panel takes about 24 hours to
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fully charge if you're really trying to
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use the solar panel in direct sunlight
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but I don't think that's really what
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it's for it's really just that little
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extra boost when you're otherwise dead
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zombie apocalypse totally perfect power
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outage really bad storm coming although
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if it's a storm you don't get much
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sunshine post storm sunshine when they
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still have the power out anyway
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enter Plex calm this one $79.99 and I
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think it's worth checking out Steve
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Taylor and I'll see you post Dombey
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apocalypse
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