If I look around my home I see a number of gadgets that I can take anywhere I want to go. Now I have a solar battery charger too which helps me with my mobile phone, my camera, a variety of flashlights, and a number of toys that make my children happy when I am occupied doing things that require my attention, like driving.
My world literally stops when a battery dies on one of these gadgets. It is great to have these items, but having a dead flashlight in the dark with a flat tire is really difficult. Somehow I have always been one of those people to whom dead batteries afflict.
I used to use rechargeable batteries in a wall charger, but this never helped when I had to re-charge batteries on a long trip or when I was outside and away from conventional energy for an extended period of time. To top it off I was always forgetting to plug it in; instead always putting it on a windowsill near the outlet.
The first solar battery charger I purchased was last year, right before our camping trip. I brought it with us, and we used it every day for pretty much everything you can think of. I don