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Click for more info and reviews of this BioLite Portable Solar Panel: https://www.etrailer.com/Portable-Sol... Check out some similar Portable Solar Panel options: https://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-Port... Click for more info and reviews of this BioLite Portable Solar Panel: https://www.etrailer.com/Portable-Sol... Check out some similar Portable Solar Panel options: https://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-Port... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-Review-Bi... Hi there, it's Evangeline here at etrailer. Today, we're taking a look at our BioLite Portable Solar Panels. These are available in two sizes. You can get the 5-watt or the 10-watt panel. These are gonna be small, compact, but efficient panels, great for your on-the-go adventures. Both of these panels are gonna have a 3,200 milli amp hour internal battery. So they're gonna share the same battery, but they have different charging capacities, because one's gonna be a 5-watt and the other one is gonna be a 10-watt. Now, when it comes to watts and charging things up, you also have to consider what you are charging. So in peak sun, let's say I have my smartphone over here, it will take about two hours for the 5-watt panel to charge this up, and it'll take 2 1/2 hours for the 10-watt panels to charge it up. To maximize your efficiency, there's gonna be two ways to see how much sun you're actually getting. It's a super sunny day here at etrailer.com, but I'm not actually getting 100% with the position of my panel. If you look up over here, there's gonna be a black dot in the corner. That's gonna be your analog sundial. You are gonna look for the shadow of the dot. Right now, our shadow is not centered, so I know I have to lower the kickstand a bit until we get that dot lined up, and now we are centered. There's also going to be an indicator up top. So this indicator is gonna show how much sun you get. We're in the shade, so it's blinking at the first bar, but this is a multi-use indicator. When you press the button, this will also show how much charge your internal battery has. When using portable solar panels, it's always important to move the panel around to where it makes the most sense and where you get the most sun. So to help out with that, you have your 360-degree kick stands. This rotates so that you can hit whichever angle you want. Other panels have kickstands, but if you listen closely, (solar panel clicking) you'll hear multiple clicks, which means you have small increments of movement, which is great, because then you have a lot of versatility for where you can put the kickstands. And with this being so lightweight, this is easy to put inside your bag, inside your pack store, wherever you want. An alternate use for the kickstand and its portability is when I go on a light hike where it's not something, anything crazy. I could actually use the kickstand to clip our panel to the bag and then I can go. With it having that internal battery, I don't have to worry about having to plug a external bank to the panel. I know that as I walk, I'm also charging. This is gonna be a monocrystalline panel. If you're familiar with solar panels, there's two options, polycrystalline, monocrystalline. The monocrystalline is gonna be your higher efficiency and it's more pricey solar panel, so you get more from your limited space. What I like though is that this is IPX4-rated, which means if you have this outside, and it starts raining, or if you splash water onto your panel, because your ports are covered, you don't have to worry about it being out and exposed to the elements. Speaking of ports, you get two. You get a USB-A, and this is what you'd use commonly to charge your other devices. And then you have a Micro-USB port, and this is what BioLite suggests you charge the battery with if you want to charge to the wall or with another system. I wish they had a USB-C plug instead since some of the other BioLite accessories have that function. But it helps that BioLite includes a cable so that you can use this with those ports with your other devices. We've had a lot of sun, so we we inchesre really able to see how efficient and how well our solar panels worked. It's really nice to see the construction of our panels. I personally am a 100-watt person, and I use that to charge all of my accessories, but this is a nice change of pace where it's a lot more slim and a lot more portable. The 10+ panel folds up to be about the same size as your 5+. So if possible, I recommend getting the 10+ because then, this is gonna give more power faster. In peak sun, these will charge up in two hours for the 1