Solar Mobile Phone Charger
Charging your Mobile Phone with a Solar Charger
A mobile solar charger has a Photovoltaic panel and internal battery that gets recharged from sunlight, and in turn charges your mobile from the battery. This means that you can charge your phone when even if it’s dark, as long as you’ve charged your mobile solar charger battery during sunlight in day. The battery is usual an internal Lithium‐ion or or removable AA NiCads or NiMHs (nickel medal hybride) rechargeable batteries referred to as “green batteries“.
Wagan Mobile Solar eCharger w/USB Port
The size of the batteries used with these devices will determine the number of times you can recharge your phone before you need to use the solar panel to recharge the internal battery again. You usually only get one charge depending on the device being charged. Li‐ion (lithium ion) batteries are typically used internally in these chargers because of their high energy-to-weight ratios, lack of memory effect, and are slow to self-discharge. They also have a high energy capacity for their size.
The size and electronics of the solar panel (Photovoltaic device which converts light into electricity) engineered with a solar mobile phone charger will determine how quickly the internal battery of the device is recharged. The rate at which your mobile phone will charge is determined by the electronics of the phone and does not change.
Solar cell phone chargers with on-board batteries typically come with an array of connectors to fit directly into your phone. However, as mobile phone manufacturers regularly change the types of connector used, there may be compatibility issues, especially with newer models. Fortunately the phone manufacturers are starting to standardize around a USB port which should help to reduce a lot of compatibility problems.
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