Vondior via Amazon has
Vondior 4000mAh Hand Crank Weather Radio w/ Solar Panel & Flashlight for $23.99 - $9.12 w/ promotion code
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About this item:
- Your Ultimate Lifeline Device: More than just a simple NOAA weather radio, this is a battery-operated radio that provides you multiple life-saving functions that are handy during hurricanes, storms, road mishaps, power outages & more
- Flashlights for Emergencies: Besides being an emergency radio with an upgraded 4000mAh battery capacity, this life-saving device is also made to be your flashlight, personal lamp & SOS alarm signal light in one.
- Perfect Emergency Device For Your Home & For Your Car: It isn't just a plain hand crank radio but designed to be your emergency power bank as well. Equipped with USB ports, this battery operated radio can juice up your phone up to 60% when it's fully charged
- Smart & Convenient Battery Operated Radio: Our 4000mAh battery operated radio is designed to help you even in times when you forgot to charge it. Worrying when it's out of power is not an option as you can rely on its solar charging panel, hand crank, or simply the Li-ion batteries you can easily replace
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Looks like a decent deal for a good price - probably not great quality - but what can you expect for 15 bucks
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Laugh now, lady. After a month of eating cockroaches, you will be begging for gerbster.
I live in the south and I've been through a few hurricanes and have gone without power for more than a week on a few separate occasions. Not once did i look for my crank radio because i had a cell phone the whole time lol.
I guess what im saying is if your that worried about some crazy emergency where you will be with out of power or a car for more than 12-24 hours you might be better investing your money into emergency rations or ammo lol.
I guess maybe if your an off the grid type of person but I would think you'd invest a little more than $15 on something like this if you're limited on space and need reliability.
My worthless 2 cents.
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Note 20 has a 4300 mAh battery. Timex 3.7 volts = 15.9 Watt-hours. So assuming you generate 10W hand cranking, it would take you 1h 35m to fully charge your Note 20's battery from 0% to 100%.
However, it looks like the crank in this sends power directly to the built-in battery, then you plug your phone into that to charge it. If that's the case, there's about a 30% energy loss from charging one battery, and using that to charge another battery. So now you're looking at 2h 15m of hand cranking to charge your Note 20. More if you don't crank at a consistent rate, causing the power and voltage you're generating to fluctuate so it has a harder time charging the battery.
People don't appreciate how easily we get energy from a wall socket. A better way to crank for power would be converting your exercise bike into a generator. However, that will increase how many calories you have to consume, and you may be on limited rations during a long-term emergency. The best way for most people is probably to charge your phone via your car's USB ports (get a cigarette lighter to USB adapter if you don't have one, preferably one which displays voltage). Run your car 30 minutes to top off its battery when the voltage starts to get low.
For really long self-sufficiency, some sort of battery pack like a Bluetti or EcoFlow combined with a solar panel would probably be best for modest amounts of power like charging your phone (Jackery is the bigger name, but they use non-standard solar panel plugs). But I consider those more appropriate for off-grid living with higher power draws (like a refrigerator and laptop). For most people in emergency situations, if you're gonna be without power long enough to run out of gas in your car, the guy who suggested food and ammo as the best things to stockpile is probably right.
the battery ones will fail at some point even if you've never used it before, could be dead radio when you really need it
- Battery charge indicator doesn't seem accurate.
- Tuning requires incredibly precise motor control
- But the worst thing, whenever the batter charge indicator comes on it causes so much interference it can knock out completely or heavily distort the AM radio reception.
I'm not keeping an emergency radio that destroys its own reception.
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