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Big Drive in movie addict here. We hit it on average once a week from opening weekend till last weekend. This being said I have been brutally harsh on my car batteries and alternators, 4 in eight years. Well the voice of reason came whispering in my ear and said "hey maybe you should get a radio instead of using the car". Brilliant! until I went looking for one, months and months of searching. Boom boxes or portable music players searched, nope they all need "D" batteries and I'm so not dealing with that. related searches gave me other types to look at. Sports radios had the right battery size but seemed too small and perhaps not the best for movie sound? Radio search turned up some decent ones and I knew the sound would be right as I have one of those in my garage, they had the right size battery too, so what is stopping me? Do I ready want to deal with yet another device that needs batteries, probably weekly or even bi weekly with my usage, answer not really. Sigh so month after month I peek in and see if anything catches my fancy until one week this little guy pop's up. Hum right batteries, right speakers, solar powered - sweet, manual hand crank - super sweet. Forward to first try, at drive in had been solar charging all week. Turn it on and it's perfect sound is great made it through 2 movies without an issue. Second week, we get there and it doesn't turn on, no no no! I realize it was already in the on position "sorry mom I wanted to see how it worked" comes my youngest. It's okay honey we're just going to have to manual crank it (I had forgotten to stash some extra batteries in the car. So for 30 min we are cranking and passing as we get tired. it worked though almost got through the first movie before it started to die. the sound get softer and softer. However I was able to crank it as we watched and it worked very well.