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Emergency Compact Crank Radio & Flashlight - Midland ER210
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2020
- I picked up this compact crank radio / flash light combo from Midland Radio. Model number ER210. Battery can be charged via USB, Solar, or hand crank. It has Weather radio with alert settings, AM/FM radio, and a 150 lumen cree LED Flash Light with low, high and SOS settings. You can use it to charge other devices via USB cable and it has a headphone jack. A lot built in to this small little package. The ability to charge other devices is very nice! Let me know what you think in the comments down below. Stay classy and play nice.
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Those are great to have for hurricane season. Thanks for sharing Cobra
Would come in handy for sure. I do like you can charge other items with it as well.
Thanks for the review. Southeastern NC is on the tail end of some possible rough weather in the late afternoon today, so I purchased one of these at Walmart. Instruction could have been better, so I searched around for some guidance. Luckily I found your video, and you made it easy. Thank you.
Hope it works well for you.
This looks like a nice little buddy.
Listen to the music when you have spare time, get information in case of a disaster. Seems like a fine collection addition! (And yes, I collect weather radios!)
excellent
Thank you!! I've been looking all afternoon trying to figure out this thing! And we've got a couple of hours before round 2 is coming our way! Very helpful and i am now a little relieved! Lol whew! That was close!
Brought one off Walmart. It’s awesome!
excellent
The European version of Midland ER210 have only AM and FM. 0.05 Mhz step for FM and 9 kHz step for AM (2.5 kHz bandwidth).
FM: 87.50 - 108.00 MHz
AM: 531 - 1629 kHz
Happy with mine, had it for years!
good to hear
Got mine today/ works great
Want/need! Boom.Thanks Cobra
Boom
very nice little radio/weather band if the power goes out!
The hand crank and solar are nice in those situations.
@@TheRealCobraBurnout yes it would be.
Works good enough to get by in a pinch as nice pick up.....Good stuff....
and not to big, small enough to carry on Hike or camping.
I have a few of these EXACT radios. They are GGGGRRRRREEEEEAAATTT. I live IN TORNADO 🌪️ ALLEY, and they have come in handy many times. Recently, we had a winter storm that caused some damage, incl. a 4 hour power loss(Transformer, one of the BIG ones, exploded(💥)). I ❤ this product so much that I have a few placed in Faraday Shielding, due to what I have seen on the news recently. Nice job here. ❤❤❤❤❤ I used one of my units to catch the Kansas City Chiefs vs Miami Dolphins game during the mentioned power failure.❤❤❤❤❤
Never have batteries in a surprise emergency.. Good item to have.
It is nice this can be used to charge other devices as well.
Agreed ,,, batts are always elusive😂😂😂
Great item in case of emergency
for sure. Thanks for hanging out here!
Nice, I got the ER-310
groovy
Just got one so far so good 👌
looks like a decent little radio
I wish it had a little more base in the speaker. But the ability to charge with hand crank or solar is awesome. And charge other devices is super nice.
@@TheRealCobraBurnout if you want more bass you'd have to replace the driver with a more expensive one, if you can find a 1" midrange woofer. It'd take WAY more power though and it'd have too much excursion, so they didn't put a crazy driver in it.
Love this product so much! My only issue is, other dynamo options are better on other radios. You need to sit there and crank the midland ER for about 10-30 mins to get the 1 bar on the battery. You NEED that one bar for the radio to work. The others, I could crank it for 30 secons-2 mins on others, and get 2-30 mins on them. I just wish Midland's product would work sort of like those other products. I will say this, the battery and how long is lasts, isn't a terrible compromise.
indeed
Crank is a last ditch option, solar charges in cloudy conditions. Keep the volume at the lowest listening setting for longest battery life.
Oh! I had no clue. I only cranked it for 5 max, and it was dead as a brick. We have the hurricane about to Strick & looking at my emergency kit, I noticed the usb charger, and plugged it in.. It works. So I thought I'd google the crank issue B4 the power went out. Thank you both. (Should've read the manual.xD)
Get or make an 18560 sized lithium ion supercapacitor that fits and 5 minutes of cranking will give a full charge for about 30 minutes of use.
The er50 has all the same features with a little different shape. Don't leave out in the rain, LOL. Use both daily, recommend both.
Excellent to know. Thank you.
Did my first overnight bicycle ride with my er310 gets great reception better than my scorpion it's little bit heavier but I all so put aa rechargeble batterys and a case so ya but my scorpion got wet and I took it all apart and clean so it started working again but sometimes it cuts out so that's wy I got the case for this one I all so have a rav24 solar panel to charge my stuff so on longer rides I will probably loos the AA batteries but ya great product
I have a diff brand Cranker, cheaper one. It works! Takes a lotta crankin'.
I love the crank!
@@TheRealCobraBurnout ME TOO! That's why I bought it.
Cool radio light ...
It does the trick
hi RCB and everyone, I have a quick question re: any kind style of these radio's. I have always purchased radio's with an actual dial which I can manually move simply because I think that a digital readout is one more thing to go wrong on a radio....so my question. If the digital readout goes out...will the radio still change channels even if I can't see the channel it's on? to say that another way. If I can't read the digital readout, due to a radio malfunction, will the radio still pick up radio stations and can I change stations? make sense?
I have no idea
You can use the USB unit to recharge this thing, BUT the charging time for it is 1.5 to 2 HOURS MAXIMUM or you may blow up the power cell, even set it on fire. I had confronted a idiot who done that after I had smelled a burning smell comming from the radio. Idiot left it plugged in the charger for hours at a time. The two onboard power sources on it are intended for use if the power had failed and is expected to be out for SEVERAL DAYS to SEVERAL WEEKS, like what happens after a tornado (🌪️), hurricane(🌀), earthquake, huge forest fire, like CA gets nearly all of the time, other disasters. Given WHAT I have seen on the news recently, especially about Putin of Russia has been trying to do, it really is a VERY EXCELLENT IDEA to put this kind of radio, several of these radios into FARADAY CAGES, so that you, the reader, will have radio,light for quite awhile. I am referring to the Solar and Hand crank micro power generators on these that will serve you.
I don’t understand how to use the usb cable thing they
give you to charge up
the battery?
Pull the read plastic strip out from the battery compartment. Then grab the usb cable. The usb micro side (small head) goes into the radio. The regular size USB side of the cable has to plug into a USB adapter that plugs into your wall. Midland cheap skated everyone and didn't include the adapter. Some power strips come with a USB outlet as well.
Gotta question for ya, what should I do when it's not responding and the light is dim but wont turn off??💀
contact Midland radio customer service.
How do I turn the noise off? I don't mind the EAS alerts but the woop noise I can't control the volume of gives me a heart attack, I am autistic and cannot handle the noise PLEASE help
Not sure. I lost this radio a while back
You charge it with the supplied USB cord? Can you use a USB charger?
Thanks.🙏
yes
One of the better features is they could have added would be a water resistant carry case with lanyard connection point. And a zippered storage compartment for your earbuds, power cables, and AC / DC adapters. Making one side of the case in clear plastic you could have in charge on the go as you hike. Have a few parts of the case setup so the solar cells always pointed up. Get to your campsite for the night and it's power is already topped off.
Indeed
will it charge an iphone all the way to full?
I don't have an iPhone to test that. Maybe someone else can drop a comment if they do.
TheRealCobraBurnout have you changed any phone up all the way?
No. Unless you have the most basic dollar store phone, it won't. It only has a 2Ah battery which is significantly less than the standard 4Ah of most Android phones and 3Ah of most iPhones. It's definitely enough for emergency calls though.
Can you program them or are the set to alert for county wide I get tornado warnings from 3 counties away? Thanks great video
Its going to receive alerts that are in range. When you push a button it goes to the channel you have it set to. From the manual: Using the Weather Radio Continued...
Weather Alert Function
• To enable the NOAA Weather Alert function, press the
WX ALERT button.
• When enabled, the “WX” icon on the LCD screen will flash.
• When a weather alert is received, the ER210 will sound an
audible siren and the flashlight will flash on and off along with
the LCD backlight for 1 minute.
• Pressing any button during an alert on the ER210 will stop the
siren and flashlight and the radio will switch to your selected
weather channel.
The outside alerts will allow you to track the storm( or storms) generating the tornadoes, so you can see on a paper map( in case of power loss) if it is coming YOUR way. IF you have one coming your way at 40 mph, you live 80 miles from the current location of the storm. Simple: 40 into 80 will give you 2, as in two hours before it reaches you, time you can use to get ready to get into a safety designated area, etc.
How many mAhs is the battery? 2000, 2200?
I lost mine long ago but Midland website states 2600 mAh rechargeable Li-Ion battery.
Bought mine last summer, and was disappointed because it DOES NOT charge my android more than many 15% ON A FULL CHARGE before the radio battery dies, also the solar panel can be in the sun for hours and it still won't fully charge, cranking it is also a huge disappointment, I can crack it for about a five min period and it will go up two bars, but once you plug in a phone, it will almost immediately kill the radio battery.
And last but not least if you happen to accidentally drop it, the time will reset back to 8pm.
THE FLASH LIGHT IS THE ONLY GOOD FEATURE ABOUT THIS THAT AND MAYBE THE RADIO FREQUENCY RECEPTION,
I'M STARTING TO THINK, perhaps I bought a faulty radio. Imma try to again to FULLY CHARGE THE RADIO and see how much more percentage it helps gain my reg android phone
Sounds like a faulty battery inside it. Either return it (if it's still in warranty) or replace the battery inside, its an 18650 type.
@@dustycups thank you
I tried putting it in the windowsill for days and the little battery indicator never went all the way to full. Still a nice little radio though.
There’s a lot of knock off models on amazon, idk if it matters
Is there away to turn off the actual system itself and not just the radio?
pull battery out.
Thereis the radio and the flashlight. Pullthe unit apart by removing screws, its easy. Pull connector to bulb off of the circuit board. I am guessing you're afraid of turning on the light in a covert situation.
The light is turned on by a switch near the solar panel, the radio switch is on the side of this model. I have several of these, some in Faraday cages due to WHAT I have heard on the news concerning Putin threatening a all out NUCLEAR strike, incl. a EMP attack.🙀😱⚡☢️⚠️💥⚡☢️
How do you turn off the led flashlight?
push the flashlight button up top until it turns off. It was 3 settings it scrolls through.
The alarm is awful! how do you disengage it so it doesn't go off and tell you useless information like a whate report of that it's cold out?
I don’t know. I lost mine
Bought one off walmart as well and it won't charge...... did exactly what it said and nothing what a waste of money spend I'm so mad
take it back
3:56 well thats sad
explain
Turns on fresh charge no sound. How to get the speaker to work? I have heard it working before. We had a close call with tornado close by. Went the shelter and turned radio on with no sound. Hooked up headphones and still no sound.
I'm not sure. I lost mine already.
Sounds like a broken wire or damaged PC board. In this case "PC" is the Printed Circuit'' board. Was it dropped? I have done that. NOT fun at all.