Eton Rugged Rukus Solar Bluetooth Speaker Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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this isn't the first product from Eaton that I've ever unboxed but this one is
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actually even cooler than the other one so the original one I unboxed was the
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original Ruckus this my friends is the rugged Ruckus allterrain powered
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wireless sound system it slices it dices it okay well it doesn't do either of
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those things but what it does do is it makes noise in such a way that it is
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bound to be pleasing to your ears and it is ruggedized and splash proof so it can
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actually be dropped from a height of one
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meter okay see that's how confident I am
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it is Splash proof to the ipx4 standard which basically means that
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five minutes of splashing from with 10 L
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per minute of splashing will not damage it from any Direction with that said do
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not submerge it Splash proof is not the
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same thing as waterproof and it's just not really intended to be used that way
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like the regular Ruckus boom solar powered so you can actually run it for
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an unlimited amount of time as long as the sun does not disappear into the
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cosmos away from us and because it has an integrated battery it'll actually run
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for 8 hours without any sunlight so if you were to take it inside where there's
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no sunlight or if the sun were to go down on your particular party you could
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keep partying for 8 more hours and if that's not enough for you then um well
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it does have an AC input as well so check that out at the back you can or
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did I see okay yeah so at the back you can power it via an adapter you can also
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uh yes USB out charge your smartphone or other device which is very very cool so
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that means that you can actually not even worry about your phone running out
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of battery while you have the solar panel going because that'll power the speakers and charge your phone and
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finally H yes it also has an auxiliary Jack so it can be used not only via
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Bluetooth but also just by plugging in directly on the front of the unit you've
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got the basic controls which are power Bluetooth battery indicator boom it
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comes with at least 75% battery as well as volume up and volume down and then
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right on the front of the unit are pretty much the speakers so we will be
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moving right along let's pair this baby up and see how she sounds one thing I
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forgot to mention before is the handy Carabiner Loops right here so I guess
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the idea for a device like this where it's rugged and splash proof and all
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that stuff is you like clip it to the back of your backpack and you like ride
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around through the Bush on your you know mountain bike with it or whatever else
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and for something like that it's very very practical compared to the other uh
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Ruck Ruckus right that's what it's called now the thing that isn't as good
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as the other Ruckus which makes sense is the audio quality so it's was able to
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get
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about about yay loud so I'd say it's
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about as loud as if someone was kind of like yelling at you pretty loud kind of
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like that but it's not it's not as loud and it's not as Distortion free as the
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other one it does go louder than this but you will experience some Distortion
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so with that said is it good for what
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its intended uses absolutely does the solar power work absolutely in fact if
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anything it charges a little bit more reliably than the bigger one for me I
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guess this would be to do with just you know advancements in their
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implementation I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my
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