{"id":705,"date":"2013-08-16T16:38:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2013-08-16T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:38:59","slug":"solar-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/solar-charger\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Charger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a small solar charger with me on the John Muir Trail, to keep my smart phone and SteriPen charged.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/product\/851177\/goal-zero-switch-8-solar-recharging-kit\" title=\"Switch Eight\">Switch Eight<\/a> charger by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goalzero.com\/\" title=\"Goal Zero\">Goal Zero<\/a> comes with a solar panel and a rechargeable Li-Ion battery.  You charge the battery up with sunlight during the day, then use the battery to recharge phones etc.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/media\/hh\/6cbe28f3-b8e9-42e2-85a7-faf406fc6d6b.jpg\" alt=\"Switch Eight\" width=500\/><\/p>\n<p>During the whole JMT hike I never turned my phone off and never charged it with anything but the sun.  It got me through the whole trip.  To be fair, I kept the phone in airplane mode most of the time, except for briefly turning on the GPS a few times a day to plot my position, and once in a while fruitlessly attempting to connect to a T-Mobile signal.  I also used the phone to read books every night for a few minutes to an hour or more.<\/p>\n<p>The SteriPen water purifier I brought along uses UV light to sterilize any organisms, and is also rechargeable.  I used the Switch Eight charger to keep the SteriPen charged too, and had enough left over to occasionally recharge Dale\/Castaway&#8217;s phone.<\/p>\n<p>The Troverts opted instead to bring large capacity rechargeable batteries (that had to be plugged in to recharge) for their phones.  I&#8217;m not sure which was the lighter method, but I liked knowing that I could go indefinitely without plugging in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a small solar charger with me on the John Muir Trail, to keep my smart phone and SteriPen charged. The Switch Eight charger by Goal Zero comes with a solar panel and a rechargeable Li-Ion battery. You charge the battery up with sunlight during the day, then use the battery to recharge phones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}