Hope this fits here.

It’s not much in the grand scheme, but all of my everyday carry electronics are all solar charged.

Left to right: Cat S22 Flip smartphone, Bluetooth earbuds, rechargable pen light/laser pointer/black light/dog toy, and my Kobo e-reader.

They’re mostly charged / topped up overnight from my 12W / 8000 mAh solar battery bank. I just throw it outside or in a window during the day and plug a USB hub into it to charge my devices overnight. My phone will usually go 2-3 days on a charge, but I’ve also got a 6W panel I stick in the window if it needs a little battery boost during the day. I also top off other things from the 6W panel, but those aren’t exclusively solar like my EDC stuff.

Thought I was going to have to cheat a week or so ago. It was rainy and cloudy for nearly 2 weeks, and the solar battery bank was struggling to stay above 50%, but the clouds finally broke and my solar bank was able to fully recharge with a few hours of sunlight to spare.

Like I said, it’s not much, but these have only ever been charged from solar**, and I think that’s pretty cool.

** Except the bit of charge my phone and e-reader got from my laptop when I had it plugged into USB to flash firmware and add files.

My solar battery bank. (Not the best design with an integrated, non-removable battery, but has worked well enough)

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    I also have a foldable one that directly discharges to USB. Never really occurred to me to charge a USB power bank with it during the day though 😅

    It’s very useful to charge my video drone during camping trips though.

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      Never really occurred to me to charge a USB power bank with it during the day though

      Lol. I used to just charge things directly, but I found it was less fuss to just charge a big power bank and then charge the rest of my stuff from that later. There’s some efficiency loss with that method, but I don’t have to spend my relaxation time worrying about resource management and swapping devices around.