Hope this fits here.
It’s not much in the grand scheme, but all of my everyday carry electronics are all solar charged.
Left to right: Cat S22 Flip smartphone, Bluetooth earbuds, rechargable pen light/laser pointer/black light/dog toy, and my Kobo e-reader.
They’re mostly charged / topped up overnight from my 12W / 8000 mAh solar battery bank. I just throw it outside or in a window during the day and plug a USB hub into it to charge my devices overnight. My phone will usually go 2-3 days on a charge, but I’ve also got a 6W panel I stick in the window if it needs a little battery boost during the day. I also top off other things from the 6W panel, but those aren’t exclusively solar like my EDC stuff.
Thought I was going to have to cheat a week or so ago. It was rainy and cloudy for nearly 2 weeks, and the solar battery bank was struggling to stay above 50%, but the clouds finally broke and my solar bank was able to fully recharge with a few hours of sunlight to spare.
Like I said, it’s not much, but these have only ever been charged from solar**, and I think that’s pretty cool.
** Except the bit of charge my phone and e-reader got from my laptop when I had it plugged into USB to flash firmware and add files.
My solar battery bank. (Not the best design with an integrated, non-removable battery, but has worked well enough)
Awesome. Thank you for the detailed answer. For me, I’ve been reading books religiously lately. So, I’ve been way less on my PC and my phone than I used to. I’m on my work PC 8 hours a day and after work was doing it, too. So I wasn’t feeling good after the day ends. Much better now.
I know it sounds like some tone-deaf parent saying it, but putting the phone down and going and doing literally anything else really has been the breath of fresh air I didn’t realize I needed. I’ve also been doing a lot of reading lately, too. The Kobo was a fairly recent “treat yo’ self” addition because when I did read my ebooks, I did it from my phone.
Oh absolutely. Keep it up. Life has so much more to it than social media. Especially for us who grew up without internet and know what it was before.