BioLite SolarHome 620 Portable Off-Grid Solar Lighting System, 620+ (no mp3 Player)

We live in an area that was effected by the PG&E planned shut offs. I bought this for those power outages. It worked perfectly for us. I charge the unit during the day then bring it in to run the lights at night. The cords are nice and long. I could place the base unit in the bathroom and I had one light in the hall and one in each of two bedrooms. I brought one into the shower with me and hung it on the curtain rod. There was plenty of light. If I left the lights on the low setting it was plenty bright and the charge lasted all evening.

I installed this in my chicken coop and it works great. The girls can even listen to music as they lay their eggs! Plenty of wire included. My coop is 8' X 12'. It includes a small area for storage where I have a single light and the other two lights are in the actual coop area. I feel that this device is a VERY GOOD value!

For the cost $200 it’s too expensive for something that is only 100 lumens it is definitely not bright at all. I would need all three in one place for it to work not only that I understand as the company is helping out poor people in Africa but I seen a payment feature on the device where if you don’t pay your bill, you don’t have access to these lights I don’t know but that seems kind of messed up to me to be charging these four people that live in a Third World country and if they don’t pay their bill you’re going to turn off their lights if you ask me that’s kind of shady especially that you’re selling a unit that is not barely even bright I did the research and I found so many other standalone units for a quarter of the price and it was at least 10 times brighter. There’s also two other brands that I’ve seen on YouTube that offer three lights and a unit to carry. I have read good reviews but those ones are significantly cheaper $50 compared to $200 , I thought this company was good. I thought they were helping people out but their product is cheap even the grill I know somebody that handles and works with electronics when he opened up the grill and the parts inside of the grill for very cheap The wood that needs to be inside of it Hass to be very small . They don’t make a fire with that small overall I wasn’t happy with the product at all. It was a major disappointment for the price. I expected it to be much brighter and I read the reviews on their grill. People are having problems with it. Melting the w side unit I understand it’s a very intricate get grill and you have to follow the instructions to the t it has its pros. It has its cons it’s just wasn’t for me. Neither was this set up. I wanted it for emergency, but it wasn’t bright enough and pitch black and barely lit up my tent. It was fully charged. Everything was connected right there’s so many other units out there for cheaper that are brighter.

This nice little kit seems to be best for providing lighting when power is out. I have it installed in a shed for use in the evenings when it’s cool enough to work out there. This lights are functional but not really all that bright. Also the radio doesn’t work if it gets too hot. I just hear loud static. The motion light is again fine, but not very bright. You would be able to make out a critter in the cone of light, but not fine details.As far as working by the other 3 lights in the kit, I have to turn them all on full power to have sufficient light for fine work. I really wish they were about 50% brighter per light.Overall this kit is nice and easy to install. It provides light to places you might not otherwise have it. Just don’t think you’ll be lighting up your whole house with super bright light with this set.

Has been used as night light for grandchildren

I have this set up in a 10x10 canopy in my back yard. I have the base station in a yardstash soft shed near the canopy and the solar panel tied up on one side of the shed. It's a very cool setup and works really well. The mp3 playback is definitely not a selling point, which is no big deal for me. It ignores track names and folder structures and just plays all tracks one at a time without any metadata (just says track 1, track 2, etc.). The speaker is not great either. But still, 5-star review because I don't think that's a big reason anyone is buying this.

I put this system up in our shed and was well worth the money only complaint i have is the hardware given for the solar panel i did not trust it so i just went to the hardware store and bought two 90 degree angle brackets and bolted them on and mounted it to the roof other than that setup was a easy and the results are better than i thought and was way less than hiring a electrician to run a box out to the shed

We purchased this product a year ago to light a barn we were remodeling. Finally finished the barn and installed per instructions. Unfortunately, the control unit wouldn't charge from the solar panel. Completely useless.