This is a rather interesting solar light, mainly because its intended purpose is to bring safe light to area of the world that do not yet have a power distribution network.
I bought this from the UK organisations website at:-
https://www.solar-aid-eco-shop.co.uk/products/sm100
The Facebook page of Solar Aid is at:- https://www.facebook.com/SolarAid/
The lights is simple and functional. It has a stand that can be used to angle it for charging or for use as a desk lamp. The solar panel is generously sized and there is charge protection for the internal LiFePO4 cell. The control circuitry is based round a standard garden lighting chip with an integrated current regulator for the LED.
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I bought this from the UK organisations website at:-
https://www.solar-aid-eco-shop.co.uk/products/sm100
The Facebook page of Solar Aid is at:- https://www.facebook.com/SolarAid/
The lights is simple and functional. It has a stand that can be used to angle it for charging or for use as a desk lamp. The solar panel is generously sized and there is charge protection for the internal LiFePO4 cell. The control circuitry is based round a standard garden lighting chip with an integrated current regulator for the LED.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
Thanks a lot
Also, notable is the switch. It's seems rather beefy.
Another benefit of LiFePo4 is that they’re deep cycle, so if you drain the cell flat they don’t mind as much. A LiPo run to 0v might just die on the spot
If this was waterproof and had the “charge by day, glow by night” config, I could imagine plastering it into the roof for automatic house lighting
The make made me laugh – sunny money
That's a nicely built little unit.
They should make a head torch of the same nature.
I like it as well, and it proves that China can make something without all that flashy crap and other useless modes included. Too bad the site where you bought it seems to be defunct.
don't know if its just me, but this seems bad value for money, and a bad design especially for someone in a third world country. It seems you could get this made for less than £5 in china, and can get very similar stuff for around £5 off the shelf, 18 lumens is not good if that is your only light source, i think your poundland solar project would be better for them than one of these. And torque head screws, these should have normal flat head or crosshead screws so someone in the third world can actually replace batteries or led's within it, these will just get thrown away or smashed apart as they won't have the tools to take them apart.
I like this idea…there are so many super cheap items like this that we make fun of, but they really could have a big impact in other worlds. Plus something about "storing" sunlight for later use as light I've always found interesting. They probably use Torx so the end users can't open them…these people have no idea what electricity is or how it works, they should not be playing with lithium cells. (That goes for a lot of people inside the US!) It is very unlikely they could manage to "fix" one of these lights if it dies. It would have been nicer to use two LEDs inside, that way if one dies the other might remain lit.
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Watched pretty much all Clives vids. Brillant! all of them. 🙂 I still can't find a way to "click" 'Thumbs up' when in full screen mode. I also get confused with the electronics terms "pull up" "pull down" "across" and "in respect to". i do have a disability with learning tho. if anyone has any "explain it like i'm five" explanations (with pictures?) that can put the 'vernacular' language into a context to help me learn, i'm sure that myself and possibly many other beginners would be very grateful.
I love the simpler products like this one that has a switch: ON / OFF And that is it.
None of that flashing SOS shite or whatever…if I want a flasher I can go down to the park at night.
mines cheaper lol no stand tho i made a flashlight out of a garden light and some 3d printed housings , my kids love them and as long as they out them in the window they always works .