Thread: Solar Panel kitsets?

James, I run a cool little 5v solar setup for lights and charging phones and small Bluetooth speaker.

It's low weight and size enables it to be packed into huts/camp etc.

I'll take a pic of the components later on and post.

Just a flexible fold up 20w panel, a 10,000 mah battery pack and a couple of different types of led lights (depending what I'm doing)

Works bloody well. Don't need 12v if you only want to run lights, charge phones and similar.

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Originally Posted by GWH

James, I run a cool little 5v solar setup for lights and charging phones and small Bluetooth speaker.

It's low weight and size enables it to be packed into huts/camp etc.

I'll take a pic of the components later on and post.

Just a flexible fold up 20w panel, a 10,000 mah battery pack and a couple of different types of led lights (depending what I'm doing)

Works bloody well. Don't need 12v if you only want to run lights, charge phones and similar.

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Ok heres my array of bits that i use in a variety of different combinations.





If doing a fly in trip, or camping beside the car, i take the whole lot (packed up into a cheap plastic ammo case from SuperCheap auto).

Or if packing in and wanted to go very light, you could simply take the luminoodle strip light and the little Nitecore F1 (with a spare 18650 battery or two) and not even take the solar panel. The Nitecore F1 can charge 18650 batterys and can also plug a USB cable into it to use as a power bank to run lights, charge phone etc.

The Luminoodle can be left in the white bag with the battery and used as a hanging lantern also. It weights nothing and takes up no room.







And here's the little lightweight bluetooth speaker ive recently got, surprisingly good sound for the size and weight of it.



The Solar panel, 5W lamp and 10,000 mah power bank all came from Banggood.com pretty cheap. I ended up buying the Luminoodle new off Trademe in the end, as freight from offshore killed it.