Please recommend me a portable charger

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I haven't really needed one before, but I've recently started doing 48 hour carp fishing sessions and thoroughly enjoying it, but as you can imagine, battery probs with phones and ipad becoming a problem.

Can anyone recommend me a good, solid, portable charger that will give around 3 phone charges (Galaxy S6) and 2 ipad charges in one hit?

I know 5 charges of those devices is a lot to aim for, but I am just being hopeful. If not, what's the best I could hope for?
 
The quality of battery packs varies wildly. I would always recommend Anker, even if it means paying a couple of quid more.
 
I've had load of Anker power packs and they have all been great.

I tried some of the solar packs recently but none of them are great, the charging takes so long for any device no matter how powerful they say they are...
 
Anker are usually decent - the only downside is most of their banks can't be trickle charged at the same time as charging something themselves if you do go with an external solar panel, etc.

Voicon said:
I've had load of Anker power packs and they have all been great.

I tried some of the solar packs recently but none of them are great, the charging takes so long for any device no matter how powerful they say they are...
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If you want to solar recharge a battery pack then the 11 or 15 watt portapow panels are good - they also do a 10,000 mah battery bank that can be recharged at the same time as charging from it.
 
Rroff said:
Anker are usually decent - the only downside is most of their banks can't be trickle charged at the same time as charging something themselves if you do go with an external solar panel, etc.



If you want to solar recharge a battery pack then the 11 or 15 watt portapow panels are good - they also do a 10,000 mah battery bank that can be recharged at the same time as charging from it.
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I tried a 15 watt unit in bright sunlight and I think the charging time on my s7 edge was 7 hours with half battery, ok I guess if your sat fishing but using the phone would deplete faster than its charging :)
 
Voicon said:
I tried a 15 watt unit in bright sunlight and I think the charging time on my s7 edge was 7 hours with half battery, ok I guess if your sat fishing but using the phone would deplete faster than its charging :)
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A lot of the 15 watt (and other wattages) are meh but the portapow isn't bad - in half decent sunlight it will put out 5-7 watt which is about the same as a plug in mains adapter and on a proper summer day can more or less max out its on paper specs if you have a device capable of charging at 2-3amp. Except for late Oct through to Feb (when you need the sun out to get anything at all) it will also manage around 1.5 watt facing any direction as long as vaguely skyward on an overcast day.
 
I got 2 of them on review from Amazon a last year, I will have to dig them out and see what they were again.

I might buy a portapow 15w then, £30 ain't too bad a price now.

Thanks
 
Someone did a quick review here
those are the rev 1 versions of the panel - the latest rev 2 I believe is around 20-30% higher output - gives a good contrast with the capabilities of the average ~15w versus the portapows as well.
 
Rroff said:
Someone did a quick review here
those are the rev 1 versions of the panel - the latest rev 2 I believe is around 20-30% higher output - gives a good contrast with the capabilities of the average ~15w versus the portapows as well.
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Thanks
 
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