Raddy RF-L3 Camping Light, Portable Solar Generator with Solar Panel, Portable Emergency Power Bank, AM/FM/SW Shortwave Radio with Bluetooth for Power Outage, Travel, Fishing & Home Use

This is a great device that is useful for camping or for room light during power outages. I initially bought it to use for my desert camping trips but I’ve been testing it for the last several days and found that it’s useful around the house also. It has five different lights on it. Including three bright LED lights on 10 foot cords that you can individually turn on and off. These are more than enough light to light up a room. The front part of the radio has a flood light across the whole front of it and above that there is a spotlight that throws a spot beam with low and high settings. These aren’t cheap, dim LEDs. They are quite bright. If you look through the photos you’ll see the one that just has a spot of light in it. That is on my ceiling 10 feet up with the light on the floor and this picture was taken in daylightJust going down to the features, it has an AM/FM and shortwave radio. The speaker is tuned for voice frequencies which makes sense especially since it has the short wave function. For you ham radio types it covers the 40 m and 20 m ham radio band.It has USB and trans flash ports into which you can plug secure digital cards or a USB flash memory with MP3s on them. It has controls on the front of the radio for play, stop the next track and previous track. It also syncs via Bluetooth to be used as an external speaker. I would be more likely to use the Bluetooth function instead of MP3s. I stopped using those long ago.Also on the back of the radio there is a second USB output port for charging USB devices. I was able to charge my iPhone 11 Pro Max and I measured an output of 5.2V and 840mAh. That’s the maximum my phone can take so I was happy to see that. It also has an auxiliary input port for music or audio, volume control and a charge indicator light and a charge jack.On the right side of the radio there are the four LEDs indicating the charge level, the three output jacks for the external lights and a couple switches to control the power output and lighting. The four green LEDs are dual purpose. When plugged into the wall charger the four green indicator lights will light up one, two, three and then all four and then cycle again. The first time I charged it it took about five hours for a full charge.I opened up the battery compartment and inside are for 18650 sells. These are the same type of lithium ion cells that are used in laptops. They are also individually removable so they are not in a heat shrink pack. That is super nice so you can replace batteries in the future if you want to. The radio has very good reception and it seems to have a circuit that locks on to a station as you turn the manual dial. I’m going to keep this handy around the house because we live in California where they currently aren’t making enough electricity for our needs and they tend to shut it off without notice. We also go group camping and this is going to be fantastic for lighting up the food table under the canopy at night.It comes with a wall charger and you also get a small solar panel! Free electricity. So it’s a radio, a lighthouse, a power bank and an MP3 player. Lots of features for this price.

I am rather pleased with the Raddy RF-L3 radio, lighting source and flashlight combo. The three lights that plug into the base unit are bright and have separate on off switches. The built in flashlight has two lighting levels and is great outdoors in the dark and the built in flood light is a handy wide area lighting source. It can be useful for camping or under car repairs. I tried the radio and its loud and clear on FM and for local AM stations. As a shortwave it receives well and I was able over a few day to hear lots of stations in Africa and South America as well as Europe from here in the northeast USA. Its wide banded so it will receive stations available during evening and daytime hours. This would be a good radio to have around just for that but you can plug in a USB drive with your favorite tunes and listen to them too. Use the Bluetooth function if you prefer. It comes with a solar charger and a wallwart type charger with a coaxial plug. Speaking of charging it has a port to charge a cell phone too. Lots of options. Its like a Swiss army tool for camping and emergencies.

So originally, I bought this as a gift for my friends husband as he likes to go camping and being outdoors. I hadn't had the chance to seem them... They live too far .. so with this past snow storm that just bombarded TX.. it actually came in handy.I was worried it wasn't charged(as it was a gift not for me)But it still had charge after sitting there for a month.The light bulbs it comes with look like toys and or lightweight like plastic toys... But they have LEDs in them and one bulb is actually alot brighter then I expected I was able to plug in and use one like bible blue tooth and charge my phone for several hrs.. it help me out.. it is only a 5w output but again great for when the power goes off during storms and I'm sure it'll be great for camping also! Since I opened and used this one. I'm definitely getting another one for them still as a gift 😂.Also I have not used the solar panel yet so I'll have to update bout that later. Over all it did it's job

First I would like to mention that I have bought from Radioddity in the past and their customer service has been outstanding.I will be buying other items in the future from them.If you have questions of them they return a answer in short order.They do not forget about you once you have made a purchase from them.This is somethings that means much to me. First of all the packaging of the radio was excellent.Since I am an amateur radio operator it comes in very handy.When I do portable operations to the field it can be very handy.During night operations it comes in handy with the many lighting needs.It has three nice led lights that can give you lighting for your operating position.It also has a good flash light built in to allow you to move around in the dark.The FM AM and SW also give you very nice audio quality.Of course the SW stations are more limited then FM and Am.I like the feature to be able to charge my IPhone from the built in USB built into the radio. You can also listen to music from pandora on your phone through the built in Bluetooth in the RF-L3.Also love the solar panel that comes with the RF-L3 to help keep the batteries charged up while in use.This is a neat little radio for someone that enjoys the outdoors.You need to go to Radioddity and check out some of their other great products.I have three pieces of their amateur radio gear and so far am happy and pleased with their build quality.Also dealing with their customer service representative has been a pleasure.That means much to me when buying on line.