My son and my brother were headed to the wilderness of Idaho to go fly fishing and float down the Salmon River. We in DC (as inside the city, not a suburb! 🤨). I was concerned “a little
Bit” (mom code for OH MY GOODNESS I CANNOT HANDLE THIS) were totally off the grid for five whole days and only had a satellite phone incase of emergency. I purchased this item— SOLAR CHARGER —so my son was able to keep his phone, and the cameras charged. When I opened the packaged to inspect the SOLAR CHARGER, I couldn’t find an instruction manual. “How hard can it be to figure out a solar charger? Just stick the thing in the sun and once it’s charged, plug the things in to charge it. Right?” Is what I thought to myself.
Well, I was WRONG. It was WAY confusing. Neither my techy son (wizard with tech), my husband (a step down from my sons tech genius, but still day and night compared to myself), nor my brother could figure out how to charge it using the solar
Panel. It was frustrating to say the least. So, just be warned. Also, if anyone has purchase this or if the makers (or sellers) read this and could perhaps let us in on the mystery of the solar panel, we would greatly appreciate it.

Here are the categories of annoyances (or lack there of):

**GOOD**:
~very small and portable. It was about the size of a smaller IPhone—just 1/2 inch thicker or so.
~came with a wired charger. Which, if you read my rambling above, you’d see was a life saver.
~Had a FLASHLIGHT! Which was so cool. The FLASHLIGHT had SOS, STROBE, and regular light. I was happy to see this since my baby boy (who is 15 and about 1/2 foot taller than me now—but dammit is still my baby!) was out on the wild Wild West where Buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play. It was a good idea for the SOS, that way if they had been lost from the ktbere, the condo bae the SOS light on. Too bad the charger would have died, since no one could figure out how to charge it via the panel. 🤔

**ANNOYING, BUT CAN DEAL WITH IT**:
—I would have loved it the charger came in some sort of carrying case. This way the outlet charging wire would be kept together.
—Havinf the button for the SOS, strobe, and regular flashlight be the same one was slightly annoying. My son told me when they (he and my brother) would use it, the would keep pressing SOS by accident. I can see so many different ways that could go wrong.

**OMG WTF

My Review:
1. We were travelling (by car) and I needed to recharge my fitness tracker watch so I plugged it in to the power bank. It worked like a charm! It only used one bar. When it was finished, I just set the power bank in the sun on my dashboard to charge it back up – So slick! I should have tried charging my cell phone with it! You can recharge via solar or by outlet – another plus!

2. I love the flashlight! It’s much brighter than I expected it to be! It has two light functions: steady or blinking/flashing.

3. Compass: This is my only negative – the compass was not accurate and did not work for me. I did not report it or try to exchange it – because I wasn’t planning to use that function.

4. The compass did not work. I don’t know if mine was defective or damaged, but I didn’t buy it for the use of a compass, so I’m okay with it and plan to keep it anyway.

I would recommend this product as a back-up charger/flashlight!