Explanation
10 Watt high-efficiency solar panel with foldable design offers excellent portability, ideal for emergency preparedness, backpacking, camping and other outdoor activities
Built-in dual USB charging ports for directly plugging in iPhone, iPad and other USB compatible mobile devices
No additional battery needed for charging external devices, 100% green energy with zero carbon footprint
Measures only 9 X 6 X 2 inches and weighs only 1 lbs
1-year manufacturer's warranty
Product Deion
Converting virtually unlimited supply of solar power to much needed battery juice for your mobile devices such as an iPhone, iPad and many, many more USB portable devices while you are on the go or there is a power outage or disaster strikes, the Instapark Mercury 10 is a light and compact USB solar charging system that easily fits in your purse, messenger bag or backpack. It combines three solar panels totaling 10 watts and folds up into a pack about the same size as a hardcover book, but only thinner and lighter.
Unlike most of the solar chargers with unstable circuitry thus requiring a battery pack for power storage and charging external devices, the Mercury 10 are sophisticatedly designed and engineered and comes with dual standard USB ports for directly plugging in your cell phones including all generations of iPhones, tablet computers including iPad 1 & 2, MP3 players, USB battery/power packs and many other USB compatible mobile devices.
Technical Specifications:
Power input: 10-watt Mono-crystalline solar panel
Power output: 5V Standard USB port x 2
Maximum output current: 2 amp
Operating temperature: 32 - 86 F (optimal)
Storage temperature: 32 -104 F (optimal)
Dimensions: 9 X 6 X 2 inches (folded)
9 x 22 x ½ inches (unfolded)
Weight: 18 Oz
Warranty: 1-year
Customer Review
396 of 403 people found the following review helpful
This device is rated to output 5 VDC at 2 amps max and it features dual USB port outputs to charge two devices at once. I had success with the product as it would charge an iPhone 4, two iPhone 4's simultaneously, iPad 2, iPad 3, an 11,000 mAh storage battery and a Kindle Fire. This is on a beautiful sunny day.
Here are my test results:
* Charging my wife's iPad 2 was OK. This charged it from 80 % to 100% in under one hour.
* Charging one iPhone was fast and easy.
* Charging two iPhones from 45% and 56% respectively to 100% simultaneously on both phones in 80 minutes.
* Charging an iPad 3 from 28% to 85% in 5 hours. This is a good job as the iPad 3 uses a lot of power to recharge and takes a long time even using the Apple AC wall charger. My iPad 3 did stop charging 3 times due to clouds passing over and the iPad 3 displayed the charging not supported with this accessory error each time. I had to disconnect it and plug it back in to resume charging.
* Charging an 11000 mAh battery was also slow. It charged the battery from 25% to 52 % in about 90 minutes. Charging 2 1/2 hours more raised the battery charge to 62 %. It is good that you can charge batteries in this manner as now you will have both a daytime and nighttime source of energy. This slow charging may have been due to a few clouds passing over on the first day of testing.
* Be very careful of exposing your electronic devices to the hot sun. I covered mine with a white towel and then covered that with a white cardboard box. High temperatures are not good on batteries, electronics and LCD displays. Left in the sun unprotected they will be damaged severely.
83 of 94 people found the following review helpful
I'm not sure why as of this writing this product isn't getting amazing reviews but it deserves them! For the $60 bucks I paid, it is phenomenal. In full sun, I can SIMULTANEOUSLY charge an iPhone 4 and Galaxy S2 (two of the most power hungry types of phones). I've only used it a few times so far, but one of those times it was a completely cloudy afternoon & I left my android phone plugged into the solar panel while streaming audio all day. It was pretty neat to disconnect it at day's end with a charged battery all while in the field with no power outlets having been otherwise accessible :) It folds up the size of my hand and is probably half an inch thick or so, weighs about as much as my phone so it's lightweight and sturdy enough to toss into a backpack. There's a pocket to stick your phone in while charging that velcroes closed, handy when hanging it somewhere via the builtin straps on each corner or placing the panel on your dash as it secures the phone/loose wires etc... If you are thinking about getting something like this, look no further.
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