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Anyone have a good brand to recommend and why?
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Most of the car jump starters will charge a phone many times. They're a bit heavy, though.
That said, I have a Power Bank, 25,800 mAh. Made in China like all the rest. They own the lithium. It's been pretty good and it will also power my heated vest for a long day.
This one (I have sinned and bought it from Amazon): POWER BANK

My wife has a 10k Lonkuu that works very well for charging phones. I tried to borrow it for a winter camping trip to heat my electric vest and it won't even turn on. For some unknown reason, not all power packs will work with all vests. My jump starter will work great with the vest but it's too dang heavy to carry around while hunting. If you have or are thinking of a heated vest, do some checking with the vest manufacturer to make sure you get a power pack that's compatible.

I carry a small one on my mc, it has fuel injection so I need some power to even bump start it. Just one from Amazon.

I carry a small one on my mc, it has fuel injection so I need some power to even bump start it. Just one from Amazon.

Depending on your needs you can buy attachments for power tool batteries to serve as power banks.
I have them for both Ryobi and Makita batteries.

Looking for one to carry in my backpack.

I’ve been using a combo hand warmer + battery charger + light in the winter when camping.

The one I have is similar to this but under the “Kozy” brand name:

https://www.amazon.com/Outdoors-Way...y+charger&qid=1631446956&sr=8-16

The hand warmer function is great and can warm the phone itself when you forget to keep it within an inner chest pocket.

Take a look at the solar powered ones if you're gong to be out more than a couple days. There are lots of them on the market now but I don't know which are best other than the larger ones are faster and hold more power. They'll also gather more light on cloudy days. They have a power pack built in. You recharge that during the day then charge your phone from it at night.

Isn’t this the backpack hunting forum? Why are we talking about DeWalt/Makita batteries and jump starters lol? Also from my experience solar chargers that are compact enough for backpack hunting are nearly useless.

You’re looking for something like an Anker PowerCore10,000. Cheap, light and charges my iPhone three times. Comes with all needed cords/lightning cables. Mine never leaves my pack.

And even moreso this fall with all of the haze in the air. At least in our neck of the woods.

From what I've read, the better ones are large and fold out. You leave them in camp to charge. If you're on the move all day with your camp on your back, they don't work so well. Those little ones with a panel the size of a phone would be pretty much useless.
My power pack holds 25,000 mAh. It's a bit heavier than your 10k but it holds a lot of power.

I am going the "carry small cheap auto charger" way my self as it will keep up a phone, an Olight, and a plasma lighter for at least a week.

I suppose the addition of a small soft foldable solar charger wouldn't go amiss for longer periods.

Damn I wish all these toys were available when I was young.

When I was young, we had real strike anywhere matches that would strike anywhere and much of this fire lighting stuff wasn't needed.

I’ve been using an Anker PowerCore 20100mAh for the past two years. Affordable and powers everything I need for a couple weeks easy with my usage.

I use Anker. I had a 20,000 plus a solar charger for the brick but left it with my guide and just replaced the brick when I got home. It had plenty of charge in it for a week in the mountains without the solar charger.

I have a folding soft solar panel..
it will charge a phone but doesn't have enough watts to charge an Ipad..(think they need 15, mine is probably 10watts...

I use Anker power banks. I have 3. A 20,100, 10,000 and 6800(?). I carry the 10k mostly. They all work great. No issues so far. I bought all 3 about 4 years ago. I use them when I travel not just for hunting.

I have an Allpowers 10,000 mAh battery pack with solar panel built into the front face, and it works quite well for backpacking trips.

I do this too. If I remember to leave my phone on airplane mode, it holds charge most of a week. My Garmin Inreach uses up it’s charge in half that time. Cameras also might need charging. I took 3 of the 10k chargers on a 14 day hunt and used about half of the capacity. Your results would likely differ, as mapping and texting might vary greatly. I tend to take more than needed, and also try to keep the batteries from extreme cold.
Correction: The ones I took were actually 20.1K. I guess I’d say carry the biggest one that’s not too big, lol.

We (5-6 of us) usually do a basecamp and then backpack in with a spike camp (8-man kifaru). Been using the OnX hunt app on our iPhones (used to use the garmin rino with topo chips for map). Phones will run down and need a recharge more often than the rinos..... This year I just bought a GoalZero Sherpa 100ac powerbank and Nomad 20 portable solar panel. In our case - we'll leave the powerbank charging from the solar panel during the day in spike camp and then come back and charge up our phones / radios at night ... doing this each day. the solar charging can be weather dependent, but works pretty good unless it snows and you need to keep clearing the panels off. going to see how this works with 6 guys this year as the spike camp solar is a new setup for us.

The Sherpa 100ac and Nomad 20 is probably a bit much to be hiking around all day every day and if that is your case, goal zero offers smaller kits (power banks and solar panels). Depends on your situation.

(side note)
I've been impressed with goal zero products so far ... we use a yeti 3000 with Boulder 200 solar panels in base camp and now pretty confident the little Honda gas generator can stay at home (although we'll probably chicken out and throw it in just in case...lol). I run a Dometic cfx 75dz electric cooler (all trip), all of our lighting (6 to 8 chained goalzero lite-a-life 350 lights and an LED rope light across 2 wall tents and the kitchen in between. Everyone charges everything at night off a plugged in power strip (radios, phones, bluetooth speaker, etc.). my favorite part is no sound from the generator running..... makes camp a little more peacefull in the evening round the fire..... happy to offer more feedback on this setup if interested.