Foot Pedal & Hand Crank Generators - K-TOR Pocket Socket & Power Box 50
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- Reliable pedal & hand crank generators for power anywhere. Built in USA with 40,000 in use worldwide. Perfect for preppers or anyone wanting reliable power anywhere on earth. Can be stored for years without issue so they are always ready. KTOR Pocket Socket & Power Box 50
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@@UltraGamma25 Very kind of you to say. Thank you
Hey in your opinion is it better to charge that power station first with either device?
Because I’ve heard of concerns where people can mess up their electronics long term if they go to fast.
@@garybrown2039 Really? Strange. Awesome too, kind of. Seems like an easy fix with a surge protection unit?
@@teddywells6278 I think it just depends on how intense the out put is for electronics . (I don’t know the math)
$70 for the small, and $400 for the large...the price puts a brake on grabbing one, could build a small solar system for that. But if there's no sun for days, this sure would come in handy. Thanks for the video and information, this is a useful tool.💙👍
I completely agree. Not cheap but if you kept one in a Cabin it could be years but it won’t she like other gear. I think the small one is very popular for trekkers with satellite phones. Very dependable.
Harbor Freight Solar Panels and 1 battery would cost less then the pedal power. That would give you 100 watts approximately of energy with no pedaling.
You still need cables, power inverter and solar charge controller.
@@vismike Take a look at the Harbor Freight Solar kit. It has 4 25watt panels, cables and a 30amp charge controller with USB outlets. If you have the older charge controller it has two 12volt outlets as well as USB. On a sale you can get this kit for about 150 add a single battery from HF for 80 and you have a comparable system to what you have here for 230 dollars. With more power output then 1 or 3 amps. Granted it isn't as portable but... And these panels will work even if there is cloud over.
for 400$ you could just get a gas generator, with gas.
question though, say you used it for 10 years, how well would it hold up? a battery wouldn't last for 10 years, so wondering if this fills a "can be counted on being in working condition when you need it" niche? like, is it low maintenance? it's plasistic, so my guess is no, because plastic gets brittle in no time.
They should put such devices in gyms/homes etc around the world and help power cities.
Solve the obesity problem as well, and lower health insurance costs
As a bonus for members, these should monitor your wattage stored and discount your membership as they will use the energy created to feed back into the gym.
I had considered this years ago but even with a fully occupied gym the users wouldn't be producing enough power to keep the building powered.
these things produce extremely little amounts of power. the bigger unit here was rated for 50 watts. a hairdryer for example uses about 1500 watts. so you would need 30 people running these simultaneously to power a simple hairdryer.
Put all the excess power into a “waste volcano”
I've made a hand cranked generator from a motor from an old microwave oven (the little synchronous motor that spins the food plate). (came across the idea on RUclips) I connected it to a 5V USB converter plug. It does not charge my phone directly (it keeps disconnecting/connecting when I try), but it charges a power bank. Also not nearly as efficient as this one seems to be, you have to crank several minutes for
The main thing is made in the USA and will give you a light when it is not there for various reasons. He's already helped me out many times.
Thanks to its creator.
what surprised me the most about this video is the product is actually made in the USA!
Brilliant idea. Sometimes that’s all we need. At battery goes flat but all it takes is a ten minute mild exercise and the car can be started again.
No degrading batteries nor does it need oil changes or sth
For the price of the pedal one you could get a set of solar panels with 5 times the output. It costs way too much to make sense as a practical option.
solar panel is more cost effective
@@Tracert-mc1hu yeah try charging your battery when it's night and you are without any source of energy .
there are things that can not be compared
If that battery were truly flat, it's going to take a lot longer than 10 minutes to get it charged enough to start the engine.
These would be really useful as an exercise motivator.
Agree 😀👍👍
Ive got the ktor power box 20. It has a 3pin 120v outlet and you can plug a wall extension into it and charge several cell phones. I have a power bank that can then charge a laptop and the powerbox can charge that too. Its a lot of work though for enough to then charge the laptop. Also can run a lamp straight through just the pedalling action. If you wanted to charge a 12v battery, it needs an actual battery charger that you can plug into it. I made a box like the one they use in their website and it does help with the angle of pedalling.
Ive done a review on the smaller one and really enjoyed it suprisely. They did a lot for the island of PR after maria. Not my favorite (or easiest) way to make power but definitely great if its all you have
they worked on Gilligan's Island...
Good enough for me then
And the bike version from Soylent Green
Yea, but you have to have coconuts for that version.
2nd movie, when they found the planes after all those years!
I built fan blades to go on mine. I can use it as a windmill or pit the blades in a running stream and the current turns it.
Hurray!!!We have finally been given "Gooble Box" technology, microverse theory confirmed
Miniverse!!
Teenyverse!!
One thing I'm noticing more and more is items like this where you have to physically do something to make Power or your starting to see more stores carry solar panels portable solar panels that will charge batteries because lately some states have been having blackouts and if you're going to need power this is the option
Baie dankie/ Merci beaucoup. This is a great idea. I hope I can find them in South Africa. We have BIG problem with our electricity. You have to find your own electric or be with out...
Thank you! I believe they will ship worldwide or can tell you a regional supplier: www.k-tor.com
Was thinking of getting one for my kid and saying here you want to play on the tablet laptop ect well here you go. But at that price I'll just keep them doing jumping jacks and house chores...
Love it the pedal one exercising while charging your phone honestly would use it even if i had an outlet, the small one may be nice but I seen on RUclips a review of one that makes more sense instead of hand cranking you are twirling it as it is a handle with weight on the end allowing centrifugal force to do most of the work. Problem is the price of those two you shown is probably up in cost. I be interested in other such reviews of similar items
Could have been very handy about a month ago in TEXAS!!!!
Very true!
Excellent! Thanks for sharing. I really admire the way you put your videos together. Well paced, quick video segments, clear narration. I always watch to the end.
Good job!
Thank you very much!
Yes the Flooble Crank
I really appreciate that these are made in the USA.
Very uncommon especially for anything remotely related to electronics
as do i, but i wonder if its assembled or "made" in the US. Being assembled really means low cost american labor for the manufacturers under the advertising umbrella of made in america.
I'm just stoked I finally found a hand crank device that actually charges an iPhone. All other cheap devices that claim to charge cell phones don't charge my iPhone
so when your charging your phone with the cranker when exactly do you think your arm will fall off.
I wish they could incorporate this into my exercise bike😂
That would pretty amazing!
You can do that check diy stationary bike generators here on RUclips.
People have been doing it for decades man. The more load on the generator the harder it is to peddle
Another great video! Short, informative and to the point. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
It's awesome that they are made in the USA.
As you said, not for everybody but it's a great O-💩 type tool.
👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸
Should incl. these things in Red Cross Emergency/Disaster kits. Great for dealing with the aftermath of winter storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, etc. Also great for camping, certain professions like prospecting.😱😁🌝😁🤣🤣🤣🤣
Looks awesome!
Might get the small one for emergencies
Well Ferb I know what we are going to do today!
EXCELLENT PRODUCTS.
Walker mowers are awesome.
The cut quality is excellent, but as you can see, there us a lot going on in there! Hopefully no big repairs.
Why don't they just make a generator that is driven by a pedal bike. They already make bike trainer stands, shouldn't take to much to adapt a generator.
RUclips algorithm is a bit extra today. Still in a 12hr+ power outage in a major city. Thankfully we still have LTE though
We can now harness the sit-and-pedal prowess of the elderly for our own purposes.
It’s like the Matrix in real life now
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Great products but that right there is why everything is coming from China. Way too overpriced.
A product that costs an entire home's worth of electricity for 3 months and produces like $1 worth of electricity every hour of manual labor... yeah I feel like this only appeals to doomsday preppers. There are much better means of producing off-grid power. I cant imagine the scenario where this really comes in handy at that price point
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Unless the doomsday is the Sun winking out, I would still go with a solar/wind/bike gen option before I went with either of these.
@@wallyprichard7451 Where please? Could you provide a link?
@@wallyprichard7451 You mentioned that there was a $30 option for the hand crank unit. Could you provide a link for this please?
1 percent per minute means about 1 and a half hour of turning the hand crank of K-TOR Pocket Socket. If my phone battery is about 3000 mAh, and the pocket socket is 1 Ah, I will need about 3 hours of turning the crank to fill the battery.
All this information we could easily find. It would be nice to know the actual efficiency of the device.
Wouldn't a solar power bank be more reliable and less work?
Definitely less work, and reliable but not for some situations. If you have a cabin and you want a backup that can sit for months, even years with no maintenance for an absolutely backup this is it. Or traveling abroad, batteries in small devices can fail. . This kind of takes it to another level but if I was hiking or camping long term I would absolutely take a small one of these with me, as a backup.
I would dismantle the handle and attach my dewalt impact gun.
Nothing wrong with that. Even if you just added a gear it would give you an extra option.
Yeah, and if you set it up to charge the impact driver battery, you can create perpetual motion! 😁
can someone confirm if this is practical?
@@deathbyvanity1955 lol it is not. The energy from that will create heat at some point and it will be lost.
@@tentailmadara2500
good point
There are actually a tonne of adaptors for that type of port. You can get one that converts the port into a wall outlet.
Food for thought, they'd probably work with the goal zero batteries, then you've got a way of storing that energy. I imagine that'd give you more options too considering the amount of outputs on their batteries.
You can actually plug power banks into a goal zero battery and increase the capacity impressively. Can't wait for the 21st century version of the goal zero line, they're gonna change the world. I'd connect both use one by hand, one by foot, lol.
WHAT! The power output is related to the connected device? No its related to how much power you put in unless your not connected then nothing will come out. And the speed you crank at 2 x a second is the same ALWAYS!
It will help you keep fit too! You can excercise your legs or hands! 😁
I think if I did a review of this I would just charge the battery to full so I could tell people actually how long it takes instead of being like yea it could do it. It would set my review above the rest and all it would take is some pedalling.
This will be good for the nuclear winter
Great video interesting videos great job making a good content
This is kind of off. You measure the voltage in the lawn mower battery but we see a slight increase how long does it take to get it to 13 volts? The disclaimer is given enough time, how much ? Can we see a shot of the fan directly plugged into the generator and say have someone pedal for ten min or so? It would be nice to show a chart on how much time it takes to charge a dead cell phone , tablet or battery to full charge.
It's not a disclaimer, it's being honest. It depends on the capacity of the battery and to some degree the speed and intensity of pedaling and what state the battery is in to start. It could be minutes or hours, but if you are in a situation that this is the only option it won't matter much. As far as the fan, it will run as long as you pedal and thats a very small load. For iphones and others again it depends on the model and battery, but this is going to be to get you power to get through a situation.
what's stopping them to make a bigger version? ^^
Be nice to have a schwinn style charging bike for battery banks
Peddle powering charge for your tesla
Its kinda sad the bigger version doesn't have USB as well.
I felt the same but I think they did it more for durability, if you get dirt in a cigarette plug you can clean it. usb port not so much. A lot of these are used abroad and those usb plug in adapters are really cheap and replaceable if they get ruined.
I thought it made it more versatile going this way. The usb adapters really are not that expensive.
The most replayed on this video makes me think youtube viewers are sus.
I cant believe nobody makes exercise bikes that power your house
Look up the cyclists making toast with his bike... good luck
@Franca Wong Actually it is, a guy from Serbia, same country where Nikola Tesla origins from (this u might've didn't know as well) did what u called impossible with a simple bicycle, which he of course tampered with and ingeniously made (your so called impossible) possible, by turning that bike in a generator (as you might come across these days), simply by pedaling the bike a few hours a day he made it "possible" to get free electricity for his home. This was on national TV back in 2010-11. And i guarantee u that many other people have done the same or even similar thing like this Serbian man did so stop being so ignorant and ask yourself if u are sure in something before u run off and just say it. (I will not say that its your fault, nor that its not your fault you didn't know this because you're too lazy to ask questions or too afraid that someone with the same mindset as yours might put you down if you do, like you did to the guy that asked something earlier). So woman, simply "GOOGLE IT" if you are not 100% sure in something, it doesn't require that much brain cells to just type something in the search bar. And to the guy asking why ppl dont already do this, simply because most ppl dont know how to do it, it requires time to learn something and time to do it, so its easier for you as well to pay a small amount of money to a company that has machines that produce electricity for billions of people to just hook u up with a bill without u breaking a sweat to figure out how it works or in this case to pedal for hours to get it for free. Also if companies start mass production of self sustainable power generators of a kind, the people that charge other people for power will go bankrupt (it's a chain reaction from there, think about it logically), because of the money they invested in making it work to be as simple as a bill at the end of the month. Simple business, supply and demand (but if ppl dont demand any more of your products (you sold them an infinite way to make power) that means your business wont last that long and it might turn up for your business to run bankrupt and end in you losing your investment in starting it, (so if you hold them depending upon your supplies, you will always have demand )THATS WHAT BUSINESS is all about.
@Franca Wong Lmao why dont you simply just google it like i have said already and now search up on how generators work. (Only then you can understand how a man powered up his household with a bike). U say basic math, i say get a book and start reading or in your case watch a tutorial because you probably dont know how to read (its impossible to gain knowledge simply by looking at letters all day right) And therefore if u knew how to read you wont be throwing around numbers of how much electricity can a cyclist produce (which cannot be calculated accurate because with using a different method of acquiring that info a cyclist (you dont need to be a cyclist to ride a bike) can produce a lot more than your 0.02kwh simply by having a different setup (by building the coil differently, and by using KNOWLEDGE - rare stuff) you can simply multiply the amount of power generated in 2minutes (as you have said).
Fun fact for you! If we use your logical thinking (plus doing math at the same time so we dont end up being idiots like me and a humongous amount of ppl (normal ppl, professors, scientists, even children in schools)) than we can say that the "Peel P50" (slowest car in the world) will have the same horsepower and can reach the same speed in an hour as the "SSC Tuatara" (the fastest car in the world) simply by being driven by the same man, or (lets widen the circle) simply by being driven by professional racecar drivers, WHEN THEY HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT AND TYPE OF FUEL IN THEIR FUEL TANKS.
From this example we can say that even if the engine is far superior than the other one, it wouldn't make any difference at all, just because you have calculated that the "Peel P50" has an engine that had a max of 60km/h top speed, NO OTHER ENGINE CAN EVER REACH HIGHER SPEEDS NO MATTER HOW YOU DRIVE OR WHO'S DRIVING. (to avoid confusion let's say that every engine has and can have the same kind and amount of fuel)
So (lets go back to our original dilemma) what we have concluded is that no matter what changes i or someone else does to the bike (the one on which your average cyclist can only make 0.02kwh) there would be no way of increasing the amount of power being made, (i will say it once more) no matter what changes are made, no matter at all, the top power it can make and electricity produce would always be the same as from the experiment where from you gathered the informations from.
It does sound absurd thinking with the same big brain as yours i have to say, you just made my day Franca, the problem with you is that you simply depend on just one source of information and thats that video with the toster (I haven't seen it but its prob where u planted it in your head that a cyclist has limit of power production (i have to go so u get the point (i cant type no more atm)) Small advice, dont get it wrong, know what you are saying, otherwise the only way you could win an argument is if the person opposing you is far less smarter or ready to oppose that same argument.
@Franca Wong Why are you so ignorant, I've seen it being done in person, I've never made a homemade generator but i will, (this is easy to understand what are u now getting here) you continue to go back to the pedal one. The way it works is that the pedals u see in the video have a small coil inbetween them, (the one u can get from an electric motor) within the box from which the pedals come out from and that one doesn't have batteries as u can see, nor it has the capacity or size to power a house. The power that its making is so small, simply because it is a cheap design, because if it was an expensive one majority of the ppl or buyers wouldn't buy it as much compared to if it was portable and cheap.
The bigger the electric motor in between, that spins when u move the two pedals continuously, thanks to the magnets around it produce what u call electricity (thats simply said, the process would take terms to explain that i may misspell, but i have said it simpler and clearer already, so no need for me to explain some school grade electric classes in a comment when u can simply look it up on the net). To power a house u need an electric motor, (you can extract it from almost any electric machine nowadays) and by simply 30minute rewiring tops you can be almost at half the way, next u have the batteries, that u will need to store the excess power u make in the at some point in the day, next to that u will need other kinds of electrical supplies to finish and multiply the power outage of your homemade generator (now those will cost u plenty, next to the batteries that will have a weight on your wallet as well). What u now need is to correctly assemble all of those in order to avoid malfunction or best in the worst to avoid getting smaller power production from your build. I'm once more assuring you that it's possible to make a bike powered generator, like i have said i have already seen it being done and seen it work, problem is not many people know how to do it, and because of that u say its impossible, simply because you haven't seen the people in your circle on which your ego is dependable on do it and you say it's impossible. (ex. When u see and touch water u don't get electrocuted, but how is it then that thank to that same water u have electricity at your house (now this is completely different from what your dilemma is at but is it) now centuries ago people didn't have electricity because they didn't KNOW how to aquire it from that same water)- you would call that impossible as well.
You simply cannot call everything you dont understand impossible. Look up free electricity on the net and u will get what i tried explaining to you, u probably had a class about it in school but i kinda think you were more into staring out from the window type of kid, so your not knowing simple stuff doesn't surprise me.
You can buy a pretty good generator for $400 and a nice big power bank for $70. Yes there disadvantages to those but if your prepared you will do way better than cranking on those. Imho...
If Im in an emergency situation, I got better things to do than pedal a friggin stationary bike. In fact, arguably in an emergency your time is your most valuable asset.
Makes an I R R I T A T I N G noise - like angry crows cawing
Sounds so good when you stop cranking
I have the Pocket Socket. It is pretty neat. But with iPhones, sometimes it says accessory not supported. Does anyone have that issue?
For the smaller model you said it had charge about a percent of your phone in a minute but I don't think you said for the larger model. I'm curious what it was. I'm UK based and looking to buy something similar before our electricity bill sky rockets. Mainly going to be using it to charge a phone as screens arent very energy efficient so where I can I want to replace them with my phone and if I charge it using one of these then I will save any power I wouldve used on that too
A perfect way to teach rude kids to be respectful
Very cool!
😀 Glad you liked it!
You should have measured power output with an amp meter.
20 to 40 watts isn’t bad at all, that could charge the average phone to about 50% in an hour
if only they could bring the price down..
You should do a video on how to stop your dogs nails from tearing up the grass
I bought one few years ago, but doesn't really charge much.
they should make it so the crank generator has it's own battery you charge with your feet then charge a device so you don't over charge the device
Interested in the pedal powered one right up until the $400 price tag.
I wish it was cheaper too, probably a small market so its makes it tougher.
Hey bud. Really enjoyed this video. Curious though... what is your background? Based on your fluke... EE?
Oregon and Seattle come also known as a little bit more progressive than the most of the country, has had pedal chargers stations in the airports for years.... Go figure all the slovenly Americans usually don't use them
i am thinking is it possible to implement this in electric cars
3rd party apple lighting cord die quickly. Only my apple ones still work.
Wish there was something that could he done about the noise.
Cool
Will the larger one charge LIFEPO4 batteries? Lithium.
Can this be used to produce power to be accumulated and stored in a larger charging device? (Such as an auto charging device normally recharged with electricity?
Yes. You can plug this into the device.
When you crank, it will send energy to the power bank you are storing energy to.
Then your power bank will be charged - but how much is unknown, unless it has a percentage readout.
@@americandude3825 Thanks!
What kind of cable did you use to charge the jackery from the ktor pedal generator? I want to buy one but this is all new to me.
In ancient Rome or Egypt we wouldn't have problems to find people to work on these "power generators", hahaha 😂😂😂
Walter white charged his dead RV, so it must work
I would feel like a hamster using that thing!
Will it power games in a bunker?
I'm waiting for someone to create an actual manpower rechargeable bike or something that can charge multiple batteries to charge things. Something with proof of what it can charge and how long you need to ride to charge it.
Hey are all the solar generators able to charge on the pedal power like the jackery?
They should put optimized man-powered devices in prisons. At least, this way, the prisoners would actually pay the society back.
Don't show president K. Harris. She may require people to start peddling they're own ⚡.
Top. Markotop (Javanese language)
Tesla should have that as optional equipment.
Never charge devices directly from them. Charge a power bank first. Or USB powerbank with pass through
Yikes! $395 for the peddle one.
It is expensive, no doubt but for some situations it could be perfect.
shit, $445?
Towards the end of the day, even with a 160W panel setup, it only charges 13W. Seeing that do 30W+ is awesome.
On a 60W panel setup, I was only getting 1-3W. At night there is no hope to recharge unless you have that.
That first one would charge all of those devices . . But at 1 am. It would take....HOURS...
If I bought the pedal version, I wouldn't attach the feet, just attach my drill and go
Why aren't these on television
50w!!, really for $250 you would be better off going with a solar option and without the pedaling. $/Watt is ludicrous!
there is no way i pay for this almost $500 :D how that even possible? for this price, you can get 5 solar panels ea. 100W. something is wrong with producer's pricing system.
Why not portable solar charger?
Nice mower. Are you a pro?
I used to do some work to help cover the machine costs but not much time these days. I bought it used for almost 40% off which helped but it's still a ton of money. Now it lives its life with the other machines as part of the channel. ruclips.net/video/c54WSOI-MMc/видео.html
@@SilverCymbal Ah. Side jobs are one of the best things to do in a situation like that. Those machines are absolutely amazing. The fact that you can outfit them with a snow blower makes them a year round money maker. As you can probably tell, Im in the landscape industry lol.
It’s not about which country it’s made in. It’s about the marketing strategy and targeted consumers.
I just hate the grinding noise.
Sounds like slavery with extra steps
As a barefooter there’s no safety issue in pedaling that barefoot. Otherwise, cool video.
I thought the same thing riding regular bike till (yes stupid I know haha) I bunny hopped off a curb and somehow caught my toe in a pedal an it broke
@@xxjusxstarxx there’s a time for shoes, when safety is a concern, but not normally at home and not in the context of this video. I do drywall repairs due a living, barefoot and have never hurt my foot yet I’ve almost broke my toe at home from stubbing it, lol
@@ThatKiltedGuyDIY i wear flip-flops exclusively haha, I hate to admit but even now, in sub 20 degree weather I'll completely suit up to ride my motorcycles and will wear flip flops cause it's the closest to being bare foot I can. I love being bare foot, and I whole heartedly agree this product is safe without shoes, but they prolly throw in disclaimers to protect theirselves
@@xxjusxstarxx cool. I live in Colorado and never put shoes on unless the snow is deep. I wear flip-flops all year long if I have to wear any shoes at all. So I’m right there with you. When it comes to shoes I love my Olokai sandals.
How long would it take to charge a phone lets say %0 to %50 without stopping