Manufacturer: SunNight Solar
Description:
Our founder designed the SN-2 BoGo Light to be a rugged, long life, solar rechargeable flashlight whose primary purpose is for kerosene lantern replacement and task lighting in "developing world" applications. It's design brief was to provide wide angle illumination with more usable light than a kerosene "bottle lantern", for use in rooms up to 4 x 4 meters or as a study or work lamp over a table, while also providing a bright directional "task light" beam for when more directed light is required.
The features which make the BoGoLight flash light suited to its primary role also make it a great light for use for camping, automobile use and as a light you can use in an emergency. Leave it where the sun shines on it and you will get hours of operation when needed. With a fully charged original battery the SN-2 will typically operate for 4 to 5 hours on full power, about twice that on its medium power settings and 4 times as long on low power.
The SN-2 uses a high efficiency polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic panel (or 'solar panel') to charge its batteries. The charging capability is limited by the size of the panel would fit on the light. Depending on battery state it takes 8 to 10 "sunlight hours" (hours of direct full sunlight) to charge the supplied 800 mAh batteries. The medium and low power modes allow users to reduce lighting levels to allow longer lighting times when charging conditions are poor. On full power users get about 30+ minutes of lighting per sunshine hour. On medium power they get about 1 hour of operation per sunshine hour. And on low power, about 2 hours operation per sunshine hour. So with 2 to 3 sunshine hours in a day a user can expect 4 to 6 hours of low level but useable light.
