Customer Reviews

K3 Wind and Solar Mobile Charger (Green)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

So I was excited to get this thing for an upcoming trip, and was glad to find the cord fit my Motorola Cliq, but was disappointed in the wind turbine. It was about as sturdy as a pinwheel, and after a brief stint on the front of my motorcycle, I found that it (the turbine) had broken off of the charger altogether. So now I'm stuck with just the solar method, which is ok, but I was really looking forward to that wind charging option. No recourse to contact amazon about the break,either, which is disappointing. It'd be nice to know I could at least order a replacement turbine.

First off this was a must have for charging the cell phones in camp! It kept the ipods and cameras alive too...with a little time management. It did fall short on what the maker states however. Supposed to get a full charge with 8 hours in the sun....it doesn't. Here in the islands we get solid 10 hr. plus days of sun in the summer plus all night wind power from the Trade-Winds and this would only go to 3/4 charge. With a little time management it still doable so its not a big deal, just be advised that the claims are a little over what your actual results will be.

I was so happy to find this product but my first K3 wouldn't charge past the medium level. I talked to the manufacturer. I had to send it back to them, which cost me $ since I'm not in the US. They sent me another, but the same thing happens. I followed all procedures but nothing makes it fully charge, not even the AC power. It's a pity, even if the price now is much lower I'd think twice. Unfortunately it doesn't have power enough to charge a cell phone.

I was really happy to find this type of charger available because of my need for charging my iphone while camping. The charger charged well when plugged in the wall at home before we left and it fully charged my phone almost 3 times from the initial wall charge, but trying to get a charge from the solar or wind was a very long process. Leaving the charger in full sunlight for a (full sun up to sun down) day only gave maybe a quarter charge on the charger that only charged the phone less than half way. Also tried charging it on a steady windy day, a full day of wind charging gave even less of a charge than sun. I guess it's better than not having any way to charge stuff when your out in the woods, but it could have been so much better.

One month ago I took this solar charger out of our emergency kit and plugged it in (for the first time) so we would have it fully charged while on a camping trip. We went on the trip but never needed the charger. I came home and put it back into the emergency kit. Yesterday, when Southern California lost power, I pulled it out. It still had sufficient charge to fully charge my phone in less than an hour. My son and I took it in the car with us and he held it out of the window to get the fan going. We probably gave it a good 20 minutes of wind charging (while my phone was plugged into it). We then used it to fully charge my husband's iphone and my son's Droid. I am extremely pleased. I consider it an essential piece of readiness.

I have taken this camping and even on the road for long work trips, works great.
excellent for emergency prepardness as well

The first time I saw this product, I had many concerns regarding reliability. However, two weeks ago I was riding a car with my friend, that I have not seen for long time, I reached out for my cell phone to make a phone call to my wife so she can pick up the kids from school on the way home, I looked at my phone but I found it dead. I told my fried that I have to get back to my car because my cell phone is dead and my wife has a new phone number which is recorded only on my cell phone. My friend who has always been crazy about new technology said, let me see it. He opened his trunk and pulled out the Wind and Solar charger, and for less than 5 mines. My phone was back working. I called my wife and I also made some other phone call later that night. Since then I was looking for it and found it on Amazon. I want to say thank you for this life saver, I will always keep it with me in my car and at home just in case the electricity goes off for any reason. I want to thank the people that created this technology for their hard work; you will hold a big piece of not only the USA future but the whole world.

I gave this to my future husband as a gift. He loves it. He uses it to charge his cellphone and other small electronics.

I am writing on behalf of Kinesis Computer Ergonomics (Kinesis Corporation, kinesis.com located in Bothell, WA). The K3 products from Kinesis Industries have somehow been labeled on Amazon as "Kinesis Computer Ergonomics" products, when in fact that phrase is a trademark of Kinesis Corporation and the K3 products are sold by Kinesis Industries (a totally different company, and one which does not sell ergonomic computer products). Because attempts to contact Kinesis Industries by telephone have been unsuccessful (as of this afternoon, their sales phone mailbox is full and not taking any more message and a previous voicemail left for the President has not been acknowledged), we are forced to take the action of making this factual comment about this product online.

Because a rating is required, I have given a single star, not because I have any experience with the product but because the company seems completely unresponsive and is unable to even accept a telephone order inquiry.

Jan 11, 2011. After three weeks, I got a cordial call today from Kinesis Industries and learned that one of their resellers must have listed their products on Amazon, since they didn't do it. Kinesis Industries doesn't have any contacts with Amazon so I did more research and spent an hour on hold before finally getting someone to say this error would be corrected. So we'll see if Amazon gets this fixed promptly. For now I've increased my rating to 3 stars since we now have a dialogue and hopefully a process to solve the problem.