Ours is fine for listening to football scores etc. But if I wanted music all day I would buy a better one with a solar panel. Ours plays for about half an hour at a time.
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We have a wind-up torch that also doubles as a mobile phone charger. It's great for emergencies but for a two minute call it takes a lot of effort. Next time I shall remember to charge my mobile before leaving home.
They're in woolies at the moment for 7.99, but i'm sure ours was only about 3.99.
I had a wind up radio with a solar panel. When fully wound, it lasted about 45mins, but always seemed to finish when we were listening to something interesting. We missed a couple of minutes whilst winding it up again. Strangely my OH was not sad when it finally stopped working.
The solar panel was good when outside. It wouldn't have been much use in the recent weather though!!!
I'll get another one when my OH's battery radio dies.
i have one which is a torch/radio and a personal attack alarm ( bought it before we tried our first trip as i thought the alarm seemed a good idea if the oh went to the loo in the night) anyway, it is rubbish and only lasts for a few minuates after a good winding up ! , you get 5 mins if you use the radio so we spent as much time winding it as we did listening to it , don't rate it at all .
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we bought a wind up torch last October, duly wound it as per the instructions and it works ok. trying to satisfy my inquisitive mind after a good wind one evening i decided to leave it turned on over night. yep you got it, it was still working in the morning!
with that in mind we recently bought a wind up radio - for times when we dont have electric, i am not expecting it to last as long as the torch between winds but hey, its gotta be better than running out of batteries!
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I agree with you, batteries are normally fine until you meet my kids who seem to think the batteries come for free, bit like the elec light at home they never turn them off either. So for us the wind up torches for them are saving us a real fortune!!!!
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Defo Freeplay Gail as I got the same one about 4 years ago too. Even took it to Spain with us for by the pool........ with all the sun it never needed winding once ........ unlike back home with our weather
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Quote: Originally posted by shelldean on 11/7/2007
Skatty
I agree with you, batteries are normally fine until you meet my kids who seem to think the batteries come for free, bit like the elec light at home they never turn them off either. So for us the wind up torches for them are saving us a real fortune!!!!
Totally agree. Buy yourself good battery devices but give the kids wind up LED torches - it's much cheaper :-)
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Quote: Originally posted by kevtore999 on 10/7/2007
What do you all think about wind up radio's????
Kevin
For a long time I didn't have a telly and my main radio was a Morphy Richards wind-up, which I used to listen to foopball on Radio Foopball ("Five Live"). It needed winding about once before and once during each half, as I recall, but you could listen and wind at the same time, so I never missed much. A five-pound plastic bottle of Tesco's red "wine", an Open University book and a bed to write on, and Alan Green getting worked up about something "diabolical" in a Champions League match where it was apparently as given that we all supported any English team against any foreign one. If those weren't _the_ days, they were at least days (or rather evenings).
These days I have a telly to watch foopball on if I feel like it, but it's all Dutch teams so I mostly don't, and the little Morphy Richards is still my main radio at home but I run it on batteries instead. (And most of my radio listening is streamed to headphones at work anyway.)
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Topic: Wind Up Torch/Radio
........ unlike back home with our weather 
