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BougeRV F02 Portable Cordless Outdoor Fan with 144Wh Battery
$97.99
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Versatile Portable Fan This BougeRV portable fan is great for indoor use or off grid. It is rechargeable via USB. There are four fan speeds with control buttons on the back of the fan. The buttons cycle through from low to high. This fan also has a light on the front that acts like a night light with two light levels. What I really like about the fan is the timer function to save battery. The timer can be set from one to 8 hours so it will turn itself off and I found it nice at night. This fan is portable and sits on the table. It also has a hook on the back to hang and would save space in small areas. This fan is constructed well and is sturdy. Overall I like this rechargeable fan for its portability and versatile use.
The Last Chapter
I really like this Bouge RV VF01 portable fan. It is well designed and feels solid, making it a great option for camping or van life. One of the features I appreciate most is the built in display screen that shows the battery percentage, so you always know how much power is left. The fan charges using USB C and it also has USB A and USB C ports that can be used for input or output. The fan has four speed levels, which gives you good control over airflow depending on how much cooling you need. It also includes two levels of nightlight that provide a soft glow, which is very useful inside a tent or camper at night. There are several controls including a power switch, fan control, nightlight button, timer button, and a sleep button. The sleep mode is helpful for nighttime use. The construction feels sturdy. It has solid metal brackets for positioning the fan as well as a hanging hook so you can mount it where you need it. The battery capacity is 20,000 mAh and the fan supports multiple charging inputs including 5V 3.3A, 9V 2A, and 12V 1.5A. It weighs about three pounds, so it feels durable without being too heavy. Overall this is a very nice portable fan that works well for camping or travel. I plan to use it in my camper van to help keep things cool at night.
JeepRubi
This BougeRV portable fan is great for indoor use or off grid. It is rechargeable via USB. There are four fan speeds with control buttons on the back of the fan. The buttons cycle through from low to high. This fan also has a light on the front that acts like a night light with two light levels. What I really like about the fan is the timer function to save battery. The timer can be set from one to 8 hours so it will turn itself off and I found it nice at night. This fan is portable and sits on the table. It also has a hook on the back to hang and would save space in small areas. This fan is constructed well and is sturdy. Overall I like this rechargeable fan for its portability and versatile use.
The L.
Long Lasting Fan For Off Grid Use The BougeRV portable fan is great for camping, inside the RV or tent. It sits on the table and the fan can be tilted up or down. The pull out hooks on the back will allow the fan to be hung up which is really nice for saving space. The fan speed is adjustable with the dial on the front. The fan puts out quite a bit of air. I have been running the fan since we are experiencing a heat wave in the middle of March and the fan is working great, the adjustable fan speed is doing a great job to move air and make the temperatures more comfortable. This fan can be operated either by ac or rechargeable battery. The battery is large, 8Ah. The battery takes several hours to charge from 0. The listing states the battery will run for 72 hours but I did not test it for that long. I did run it for 8 hours on medium after fully charging the battery. After 8 hours the battery indicator was at 75%. The fan does have usb ports on the front for charging extras like a phone. The fan also has a light on the front with 2 settings, high and low with push button on the front. The color of the light is light orange and gives off enough light inside the RV or a tent like a night light. The fan is light weight and very portable. I have operated the fan during the day and disconnect the battery for charging over night. I plug the battery via charging cable to my solar power station. The fan if operating by ac from my power station pulls 17 watts on high speed so not bad. Overall I like the fan, it can be used anywhere in the house or on the road. It doesn't use much energy on ac. The battery is big and last a long time. I could also see this fan working during the winter to circulate warm air from the wood stove if placed nearby or hung up. I will definitely be using this fan during the hot season which has already started.
The Last Chapter
A reassuring piece of kit for grid-down situations This is not your wimpy camping fan. It's big, as you can see from my photo of it sitting beside my Bluetti AC180 (which is quite large). The battery that runs it is larger than both my 20V and 40V Black and Decker yard tool batteries; like those batteries, this fan's battery has the four-light state-of-charge indicators you can turn on and off with a button. It is, of course, proprietary, and I have no idea if any other batteries on the market would fit the fan. I was going to test to see if you could charge the battery at the same time you are powering the fan, but you cannot because the PD port is covered up when the battery is plugged into the fan. For completely uninterrupted down time during power failures, you'd need to recharge the battery off solar energy captured during the day, and that can take time. I'm not sure how long it took to charge the battery when I first got it; it was at one-light state-of-charge when I left the house for NK3 and was fully charged when I got back home about five hours later. I really like that the battery charges via a USB-C PD port (45W max) and not an AC brick because you can hook it up to a smaller solar-chargeable power station and not have to depend on an AC-outlet-equipped inverter or solar generator. The BougeRV battery is 18V and has 144 watt hours of storage capacity. It plugs into the bottom back of the fan, lending it weight and stability. The fan itself is made of plastic, which makes it lighter but also avoids the problem of having to ground it. A serviceable carrying handle is built into the top, but it feels a bit flimsy, like it might break if you put too much weight on it. I'm not sure what the metal arms with hooks in the back are designed to hook onto, but they give you an additional means of anchoring the fan down. If you need lighting, this fan has that, too (and lots of it), although I'd be inclined to use something else for lighting if we were in a grid-down situation in order to extend the time the fan itself can run without recharging it. I keep containers of water (like you see in front of the fan in my photo) frozen so we can blow a fan across it for cooling should the grid go down and the AC stop working in our Zone 8b heat. That could be the difference between life and death for us old folks, so having this fan as part of our emergency survival kit is very reassuring.
Diane Kistner
An executive look and good flavor extraction, but a very small "cup" There's something, I don't know, SUAVE about this BougeRV portable drip coffee maker. Depending on what you want to use it for, it can be fantastic or it can be kind of a letdown. The fantastic first: It looks high-end and "executive," and it brews a nice little cup of coffee that is flavorful and not over-extracted. I got it because, on occasion, we like to treat ourselves to one of the pricier flavored K-cups and don't have a K-cup brewer, but mainly we are your average proletarian cheapest-available-coffee mug-drinkers. (Just the caffeine, ma'am.) Not having any K-cups on hand, I tested this with Aldi Barissimo Dark ground coffee. I filled the coffee line to the max and brewed a cup using water boiled in a kettle, again up to the maximum fill line for the water. And this is where fantastic and not-so-fantastic meet. The resulting brew was much stronger and tasted a whole lot better than it does when we brew it in our Black and Decker 12-cup stainless steel carafe coffee maker; the B&D brew is bitter, and this was not. But a mug drinker, pouring the coffee into their typical 400 ml (13.5 oz) stainless steel "squirrel" mug, is aghast at how little coffee there is. A third of the mug at best. BougeRV recommends brewing the coffee, then pouring in extra hot water to taste. I found 1:1 brewed coffee to hot water is about right. That's still only about two-thirds of that mug. So if you are a mug-drinker who plans to depend on this for your two mugs of coffee a day, be aware that this might not be the best product for you. But here's the important thing for me, and it's why I'm really glad I got this. We have a Kelly Kettle (ASIN B00OABV4I2) for boiling water with very little wood material: a few pine cones, a few sticks, or maybe some brown leaves if there's nothing else. That Kelly Kettle has saved us during any number of grid-down situations, and I can tell you that there are few things more important than that morning cup of coffee in a grid-down situation. Even though one battery charge of this portable drip coffee maker can handle making a "cup" (not) of coffee from cold water, we'd never use it that way unless we had no other choice. If you aren't depending on this coffee maker to heat the water, you can get up to 400 brew cycles out one charge. And that's pretty amazing. It did take quite a while to fully charge it out of the box, but I was using a fairly wimpy wall charger. (I also discovered, later, that I can use my BougeRV camping fan/light [ASIN B0GF1D3MLW] to charge it, and that holds quite a bit of juice for charging other devices.) Brewing with hot water takes far less time than trying to brew it from cold. If you're going to an office and using this brewer at your desk where you have a means of plugging it in to recharge it then, yeah, go on and do it from cold. It will take longer, and you probably need to be content with just that one "cup." But if you are looking for resilience and the requisite caffeine hit in a grid-down situation, plan to use a different means of heating your water. Finally, I like the double-zippered semi-hard carrying case that comes with this, and I also like the weight of the whole thing. It's not light, so a hiker or primitive camper needs to consider that, but it feels solid and comforting carrying it by its handle. With a little connoitering, you can get the instructions and the scoop into the case along with the device, so if you're keeping it in an emergency closet, it's self-contained and you won't need to worry about forgetting how to use it.
Diane Kistner
Where do I start, this thing is great! It’s super functional and makes a great cup of coffee. I have this sitting in my desk at work as with it being battery operated, it’s an allowed device. It’s fantastic to grab a k-cup, bottle of water and just brew a cup of coffee at my desk at any time. Cleaning is a snap, I just wipe off all the surface areas with some napkins after use and it’s done. I’d say this is a good spend for what you get - especially if you like to have a good cup of coffee on the go or at work at your desk! Hehe! Also…brilliant idea is that the battery can be charged directly with a usb wire, no need for a charging base. All in all excellent - 5 stars from me.
akonius
Great Coffee Brewer For Travel And Work This BougeRV coffee maker brews coffee in about 10 minutes. It is a single serve, about 5 ounces. There is a water tank on the top to hold water. I have been using it for a few days now and it has performed well every time. It is cordless and charges with USB. I am able to make two coffees before needing to charge it. Charging from a low state of charge takes some time so after I finish making my coffee I plug it in. The coffee brewer will take K cups and regular grounds. I have been using the K cups. When it is brewing the coffee filters down to an included cup. There is a LED indicator on the front and is easy to monitor the brewing time. This coffee maker is small and sleek in design. It easily fits into my bag and I am taking it to work as we have no coffee maker, and it has been great to brew fresh coffee at break time. The coffee brewer is perfect for travel and off grid use. Overall I really like this brewer, it is user friendly and works great.
