Product Description

From the heart of Africa to the Hardanger Glacier, the powermonkey-eXplorer has proved to be an invaluable piece of kit, providing essential power in the most remote locations. Incorporating the new solar-slave, the powermonkey-eXplorer lets you charge wherever, whenever. Compatible with the majority of mobile phones, iPods, MP3 / MP4, PDAs and portable games consoles including the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS & DS-Lite, powermonkey-eXplorer will recharge your devices - giving you 96 hours of standby on your mobile, 40 hours on your iPod, 5 hours on your games console, 48 hours on your PDA and 6 hours on MP3/MP4 players. Available in 4 fantastic colours; Blue, Grey, Pink and Yellow - stylish and essential! And, if you own one of our Soundtraveller speakers - you can use the powermonkey-eXplorer to power them instead of spending your money replacing the batteries! The solar-slave draws power directly from the sun - giving you free power wherever you are! Make sure your powermonkey-eXplorer's got full power at all times by charging it with the handy solar-slave, which can be attached to a rucksack, hung from a window, left in a car or taken anywhere the sun shines! Make sure the powermonkey-eXplorer unit is turned OFF when re-charging from the solar slave in order to reduce charging time! You can even use the solar-slave to recharge your device directly - so you have back up power at all times. For example, plug the solar-slave into the back of one of our Soundtraveller speakers and it will run your speakers from the power of the sun - no batteries needed! Ultra compact, tough and powerful, the powermonkey-eXplorer is water resistant and made from rubberised casing so can take whatever life throws at it, yet it remains the lightest, most versatile charger available today Featuring an LCD screen that displays battery capacity and the level of charge, the powermonkey-eXplorer also has short-circuit protection, over-charging protection and over-dischargi

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3767 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: PowerTraveller
• Model: Power Monkey Explorer Blue
• Released on: 2009-03-15

Customer Reviews

PowerTraveller Explorer
I was a little dubious about this charger after reading some unfavourable reviews but since there were many positive ones and a UK presence for backup I went ahead. Very well made and rugged with most common adaptors supplied, with others available from Powertraveller. Charges my Nokia phone and DS Lite, no problem. Using the solar charger to recharge the powermonkey rated at 2200mAh it still charges on a sunny indoor windowsill, albeit slowly, but performs much better outside on a sunny or even a cloudy day. Manufacturers claims for charging rates are pretty much correct. If you are going where there is no power (ie moderate populated camping sites)then it will charge your phone and small gadgets ok. For going further afield into the wilds I would want something more powerful like the solar & power gorilla which approx. 5 x the price

Great charger
I received my power monkey last week and I have found that it does what it says on the tin. To charge the power monkey fully using Solar charger takes three days (as stated in the instructions, but a days solar charge will restore 75% power to my Blackberry Storm. Charging from the mains gives 100% charge in four to five hours. I read a review saying what is the point of mains charging as you can just charge the device, Yeah your avarage frendily Airport or Train Station invites all to plug their chargers into their mains. This is a great peice of equipment for the traveler, allowing you to regharge your equipment when mains power is not available.

Waste of money and space in my rucksack
This product sounds great in principle but I found it to be a total waste of money, even at half the price, and a waste of precious space in my ruchsack.

This worked on my blackberry and ipod but unfortunately did not work on either my camera or my standara Nokia mobile phone - which are the two most important things I took with me - so I had to frantically run around a shopping centre while I was away to find a new charger - not an easy thing to explain in a different language! So this pack ended up taking up more space and weight than the Blackberry and Ipod chargers that I could have taken with me and caused me the inconvenience of trying to find a new charger while I was on holiday!

I did not even get around to trying the solar panel properly due to this so I cannot really comment on that.