Anyone use a hand-crank generator before?
Why are cranks so unpopular?
Asher Ortiz
Ryder Baker
They're loud, slow, and it's a lot cheaper and easier to use an AC outlet and/or a spare battery.
Chase Adams
They can produce maybe 5 watts while your cranking. Charging a phone would take a couple of hours of straight cranking, and it's pretty tiring after only a few minutes.
Ever since big battery banks got cheap they're essentially worthless.
Jacob Evans
>5 watts
not at a sustainable pace
Daniel Walker
Exactly. After a few minutes of putting out 5 watts your arm is going to be getting tired. Ten minutes in even really Jow Forums people will be taking a break.
Hunter Rodriguez
Because there is basically no fucking need
Even a 10Ah battery pack is like 3 charges to most phones these days
and then you can get solar ones and leave it on a window sill
Natural disasters happen but even then cranking battery banks are trash. it's literally emergency only, you would have to crank it for like 5-6 hours to charge a phone.
If you really need emergency just get some 9V battery adaptor to USB or there are 2 AA battery ones
Anthony Hall
Just attach a solar panel to it. Then have the solar panel drive a motor that cranks your hand-crank generator.
Anthony Adams
I'd be more popular with a feet-pedal based generator.
Jayden Scott
Better yet, plug a fluorescent lamp into the wall to power your solar panel that powers the motor
Blake Gray
battery tech still sucks balls
my solar meme panels battery dies every 12 months
you either get the high end ones but literally more expensive than your normal electricity bill or get the cheap chink ones that last a couple of months