“Approximately How long do you have to crank to get a full charge without plugging it into an outlet, or using the sun?”

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• Hi! Happy to help! It can take up to 16 hours to fully charge the battery using only the hand crank. The purpose of the crank is not to fully charge the product, but to get enough charge in the battery to run the radio for weather announcements or charge a phone enough to make a call.

  Answered by ION AUDIO 5 years ago

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• The instruction manual states that you get 1% charge for every 10 minutes of hand cranking. However, that 1% probably translates into about 40 minutes of radio time. In an emergency situation when the power is out, the information is what counts not the percentage recharge. The battery has a huge capacity. Also, it has a solar panel on the top that requires 40 hours of sun for a full recharge. So you can use hand crank and solar in combo.

  Answered by epsilon 5 years ago

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• 1hour

  Answered by Horace 4 years ago

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