When the sun sets, the SolarHome 625 turns your off-grid cabin, shed, or campsite into a space that feels like home. Lights, music, phone charging - no outlet needed. Built for years of adventures and made for daily use, not just emergencies.
Picture this: the sun just dropped behind the ridge, your boots are off, and the evening chill is settling in. You didn't get a chance to make a fire but with the flip of a switch, your space lights up - no flickering flames or juggling flashlights. This is possible with BioLite's SolarHome unit. The three included pendant lights each crank out 130 lumens, enough to read by, cook under, or gather around. So, if you're camping, setting up a man cave or she-shed, or living the tiny home life, this kit turns nighttime into your time - no outlet required.
No wires to strip. No settings to configure. Plug in the panel, run the lights where you want them, and that's it. Most setups take less than 20 minutes. It's designed for DIYers, not electricians - and feels intuitive from the first plug-in.
Sure, it's handy during blackouts, but this isn't emergency gear you stash and forget. The SolarHome 625 was built for daily use: lighting your workshop, powering your off-grid escape, or helping you wind down after a long day in the wild. It's tough, reliable, and earns its spot in your setup long after the lights come back on.
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Hello neighbor, this is Curt with Etrailer and today we're gonna take a look at the BioLite Solar Home 625. Now what this is is a portable, modular light system that is solar powered that you can use in any kind of remote area, like a hunting lodge, work shed, shack, you know, any kind of area like that where you don't have direct access to power, you can basically keep everything illuminated and safe. Now, if you've had any experience with the solar home 625 or if you watch this video and you have some questions about it, go ahead and leave those in the comments below. We'd love to take those questions or your experiences and share them with our other neighbors so they can make the best decision. So we just wanted to shut the lights off and kind of show what kind of brightness we're gonna get outta the box there. That is on the brightest setting.
We could of course change it to the lowest, which I'm gonna do on all three right now. Go ahead and put it up to the medium light and now at its brightest. So because we can kind of hang these up anywhere we really want to in any which way, this is gonna come in really, really handy. Again, for those spaces that you just can't get any power to that work shed that garage, that hunting lodge, anything like that. This is a very small, easy to use portable system for anyone.
There's several different components to this, you, we do have our battery and control box right here, a solar panel that can be set up really any way we'd like. There is a 21 foot cord that's going to go to the battery to help charge it and we're gonna have three different lights each with an independent control. They can be plugged in together to run as to run as kind of a string light. And they each have their own remote option. There are different light modes at a low, medium, and high, and there is a light located right here on the control box as well.
This is also going to feature a USB port on the side along with an adapter with all these different plugs. So really anything, any kind of device that you need to get charged, you'll be able to using this adapter. On the control box here, we do have a battery indicator over here to our left. We can hit these arrows back and forth to show how much time we have at the current usage when the lights are hooked up and on. That meter will go down a bit because you're using some power up.
The this indicator here is gonna tell you how quickly you're being charged when we have the panel out in the sun. And it also has an FM radio function as well. We could see the speaker right here. The radio has its own antenna that you can run if you're in an enclosed area and you need a better reception. And we also have a slot here on the side that you can put in a card for your MP3. That way you can control what tunes you're not at the mercy of whatever the DJ on the radio is playing. So we've got all those different functions. We'll see our serial number there as well. And right here on the main screen we have our own battery indicator as well as the solar indicator here on the bottom. Now we do have a full battery, so even if this was outside that indicator of the solar there would not be working because once it has a full battery, the solar panel stops charging it. If we take a look at the back of the battery box here, we're gonna see a few inputs. They're pretty clearly indicated. You see the little sun symbol right there That is where we would plug in our solar panel to get it charged. These two indicators here are for our lights, so we could go ahead and plug those in as well. The way that we have it run right now is that we are running these two lights together on tandem and this one through a separate input. However, there's multiple different combinations that you can do as far as your lights go in order to get it up and running, just the way you like. So as you can see, we've got our light on right here. Got a pretty good luminescence and we could go ahead and click this in order to get the different bright brightness levels, so low, there's medium, there's the brightest. Each of these lights has their own independent switch as well. So you really do have a lot of control of the kinda light that you're gonna get. Not to mention, there is a light on the battery box as well with its own three different brightness levels. When we removed this from the packaging, the battery box actually had about three out of five bars for power level on it. So we went ahead and we put it outside for roughly about 90 minutes. That's about all it took in some good sun to get this battery fully charged. At full power, you can run all three of your lights on the low brightness mode for about 24 hours. However, if you're gonna bring them up to the high brightness mode, that's gonna last you about six hours. And I misspoke a little bit. It's not just these three lights, that is also the light here on the box. So all four of those lights in the highest bright setting will run for six hours on a full battery. It's also going to include a lot of little hardware here, things that we can use to mount and run our wires to keep them outta the way. So you'll have some small nails like this with a clip that you can hold the wire in place along a wall. We got some retaining wire here for you to use, and we've got several nails as well. And one of the things about these lights is that you can either, you know, hang them on a nail and give them a little bit more of a permanent look. You can hang them by the hooks here if you need them to be pointed more straight down. So there's a few different ways that you can hang these lights and really be able to use them for what you need. So there is a look at the BioLite Solar Home 625. I'm Curt with etrailer. Thanks for stopping by.
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