i bought a couple of similar products last year for a trip. Devices get hot with the solar/battery combo, best to keep them separate if possible
Units died within a year and are dead paper weights at this time
Coming Soon: PowerCore Solar 10000!
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Wow look at @professor enlightening all of us about solar panels and what not. Guess you really are the professor😂! Thanks for the lesson always happy to learn!
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The irony:
- bought for emergency
- if you use them they fail
- they are dumbest emergency idea, and yet… people buy them!
Best are small and simple. A flashlight which is only a flashlight will tend to be more reliable, a power bank you keep in waterproof bag wrapped clothes in bag will hold charge for months, carry two, is more reliable. A solar panel which unfolds large so when there is some sun you get useful power will work best. Stick all 3 together is really dumb.
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Barely 2 minutes and you can already see its a scam 
. Their ads are horrible…
Edit: I’m happy @professor deterred everyone away from this, hopefully you listened to him
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Lit Solar has been spamming me with youtube ads… It’s getting annoying. I hope this will blow them away.
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Wow, so I hope after this we see something to be positive out of Anker. Solar is going to be one of the ways we solve one of the top self-harming acts of our species (fossil fuel burning).
The people who are funded to deny climate change have their 2nd or 3rd homes well above sea level, paid for by the profits from those fooled in lower evalation. Bye bye Shanghai, Florida, etc.
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I agree. 
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UPDATE
This particular product has been renamed from PowerSolar to PowerCore Solar 10000. I have edited the original post with our first look at the product and a few additional details HERE.
So why did they trademark Powersolar?
https://www.trademarkia.com/company-anker-innovations-limited-4861959-page-1-2
A new product line is coming and isn’t really part of it?
You know my views on this class of specific product.
So I see you’re linking to an Amazon image, so you know the product on Amazon listing?
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what is the Solar Input for charging this PowerBank?
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The Sun. 
Hmm I wonder when will this be coming out?
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Lol i know that much 
I meant to ask how much of input charging current and voltage is generated by the solar panel to charge the battery.
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Josh is linking to Amazon image URL, so its soon.
Speculation on price.
Price will be high then the usual discount. 10000 + solar, a discounted price around $35, so means launch price around $45. The cost of 10Ah is around $20-$25, add a tiny solar panel and packaging… add $10. I get to $35. That then is the 18% off price, so 35/0.82=$42 so round it to a $44.99.
Let’s see how good I am…
I suppose that depends on how much solar energy is available!
Soon is relative. Could be later this month, next month, or even the month after that.
Kind of.
Depends on:
- the amount of UV. Altitude, season, time of day, basically. UV is more energetic light. We can’t see it, but if we spend time in it we get terrible sunburn. People at altitude tend to wear hats, sunglasses and often have red noses.
- temperature. Solar cells perform less well in heat, cold freezing suits them better
- temperature. Lithium cells perform less well in heat and cold, around 20C room temperature suits them better.
Interesting conflict there. The solar panel would quite like to be near freezing, the human when near freezing would like the sun but then they burn, but the lithium cells would not like either. Pretty much these two technologies are not meant to be next to each other with a human next to them.
I can link to the relevant scientific studies if you want…
The only way I can think of this product from Anker not being a reviewers disaster is if they used a new type of cell which better tolerated heat. They do exist. Sodium, Graphene come top of mind.
So the real innovation would be the cells they used. If they don’t mention some of the newer cells technologies then walks like a duck…
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That’s great!
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