Rainy season in Manila and a charging port that drank water
Our USB ports passed a splash test on the bench. Then the wet season hit Southeast Asia.
The Lagos order that taught us to ask better questions
A buyer in Nigeria ordered our brightest torch. Turned out brightness was the last thing he actually needed.
Why we put mono panels on the good models and poly on the cheap ones
People ask if monocrystalline panels are just marketing. On a flashlight, partly yes, partly no.
The hand-crank that snapped, and the gear we changed
A batch of our hand-crank lights started failing after a few hundred turns. We found the part and it wasn't the part we expected.
