Sorry. No intention on my part to call your equipment junk. All I can say is that MY Solitaires were no-so-spectacular. I could not recommend them on an emergency preparedness board where reliability and robustness are usually of primary concern. Maybe your Solitaires are better.

Our experiences obviously differ. My family has owned four(?) Solitaires over time. Every one of them has failed under light use. We now own maybe a dozen Infinities and ARC AAA's across the group of us. 75% of them receive heavy use. None of them has ever failed. I'd have to think hard to remember the last time we even had to replace a battery in one of them.

My intent was to point out what I thought was a more reliable alternative. Sorry if you took that to be an insult to your gear. That was not my intention by any means, although it may have come off that way.