5 Best Solar Power Banks: I’m Unimpressed!

Products tested, in no particular order (affiliate links):

Blavor – https://amzn.to/3FKOD9D
4Patriots – https://amzn.to/3QuVQ2h
Anker – https://anker.pxf.io/AW5P97
QiSa – https://amzn.to/3snlPke
Survival Frog – https://amzn.to/3FP8OmM

I forgot to mention this in the video, but even the ‘winner’ gets the most lukewarm recommendation possible from me. It’s just hard to trust the long-term quality of cheap power bank brands – let alone one whose actual capacity is so far off from its listed capacity. So buyer beware.

A better alternative is probably just buying a dedicated solar charger and using that to charge a regular power bank. That way you can keep the battery out of direct sunlight. Not to mention, solar chargers tend to have bigger solar panels and thus output more power.

My thing is $80 for one, or $10 for 2 of the cheaper ones.

Thanks for the fair warning!

Unfortunately solar and battery prices came down so low that these junk products now appear on the market. They are truly useless.
Focus on buying high quality, high capacity power banks and charge them from mains power, which is far less polluting than all the energy and petrochemicals that are used to make these products.
Thanks for the test.

If you wrap the inside battery with ceramic fiber or ceramic wool… That will stop it from catching any heat while left outside in the hot sun

Wow, thank you for the eye opener

I have one and the instructions literally said that it might take 6 days to change just using sunlight 😭

How much

Thanks a lot. The single solar powerbanks are mostly used with an extra solar panel.

I wished I watched this video before buying my solar USB battery.

These things are sooooo disappointing.

Finally a real honest product review , I own almost all of those and agree with everything u said thanks for sharing

Holy cow I’ve never seen a YouTuber go straight to the point like this, others should learn from this lad.

Sounds about right with all the "sustanability" trend. You buy it with good intentions, and then use it as a regular powerbank plugging it to the wall.

Anker Solar is nologer listed on official site. Nor there are any mobile solar power banks on anker site.

Thanks. this was actually a very good and useful review. Saved me some money as well.

Avoid Chinese knockoffs

Good video, was looking at the specs of these power banks, and my scepticism had proved correct..

Phone never test to charge but mi pad 5 charge slow use less old solar power pank one light two charge port need rail.y charge your phone and mi
Pad 5