@caffeineguy@PlacidPenguin I always thought the explanation was that USB connectors are fermions, so you have to rotate them 720 degrees to get back to the original state.
@heartny@StevenS757 You mean like HD-DVD? 100GB Bluray? Firewire? Consensus is that many people dislike USB-C and it’s riddled with problems. Plenty of phones in 2018 are still coming out with Micro USB.
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@actionPacked@longviewite pretty cool that they have higher capacity versions that also sequentially stack-discharge. To bad these don’t - especially at only 1700 mAh rated.
I wish there was a 50/50 option. Since my household has both Lightening and micro usb phones. Not that I NEED more back up batteries. But I probably would have bought if there was a split set. And no I don’t need 20 of them.
If I had nine friends and we actually did things outdoors, these could be useful. But, I don’t have nine friends or do things outdoors. I am not stacked.
@karamazovsdevil@katbyter So much pain, suffering and assorted dysfunction in the world could be averted if folks would just make a habit of checking with me first. Goddamnit.
@joelmw@karamazovsdevil I’m looking in the mirror! I’ve said that so many times I can’t count! Why, just why? Would it take that long to just ask me? It’s not like you’re busy with usability studies or focus groups.
If you had a crazy high stack of empty ones. Then placed a full one on top and had the bottom one charge from the top. I wonder how the energy would flow.
@caffeine_dude@djslack I’m willing to believe that you’re right (and I vaguely recall a discussion to this effect), but more detail would be helpful. Obviously you’re saying that the Duracells aren’t conductive. So what exactly are they, in contrast?
@joelmw@mike808 got it. The powermat uses an inductive coil to wirelessly charge the packs. These have those little metal contacts that have to touch each other to pass the power along, like the buzzer things they hand you at some restaurants to signal when your table is ready.
I really want these and I have no idea why. I hardly ever use the random assortment of power banks I already own, although I do keep them conscientiously charged just in case. Somehow the idea of 10 identical power banks neatly stacked replacing the jumble of banks I have today resonates deeply with me.
I also lie awake at night fantasizing then when I win the lottery, the first thing I will do is replace all my clothes hangers with a matching set.
@m33rkat 37 will certainly make the fire and rescue job interesting in a house fire as everyone is counting the explosions waiting for it to be safe to enter
@MWPollard I don’t see this as a problem in the real world. I’d expect to charge the entire stack, then stow several in various emergency use locations/bags… leaving several in the stack.
Then periodically - assuming I could remember where I put them (a big assumption) - cycle them into the stack to top them off.
(If they follow the existence of our many other USB batteries, they rarely get used anyway.)
@giolee88@spiciernoodles nope. Was saved by the sellout of the Lightning version. And my very tiny anti-hoard gene was just barely strong enough to say no to the MicroUSB version. #GratefulMehLaunchBudgetEnded
Do these start charging when you plug the to-be-charged device in, or is another button press required? I’m looking at these to power microcontroller projects, but the banks that require you to press a button to begin charging are non-starters for me. If they are ‘always-on’, I’m in for 10 or 20.
@meverett For a brief, shining moment I thought “Raspberry Pi!” as the size of the pack is perfect for a RPi 2 or 3 board. Then I noticed that 1A output.
Is it just me, or is this scenario a disturbingly plausible comment on the plight of humanity? Maybe we’re always just one ditz from a mushroom cloud.
And then boom: you’re ready to hand it over to that friend of yours whose phone always dies. And that way her phone will be charged when she gets the call about the reactor failure at the nuclear plant (because she just happens to be the foremost expert on nuclear power) and she’s able get there on time and stop it from melting down.
It’s cool that they can operate as one huge power bank while stacked. While not exactly portable that way, I can see some applications for powering something for an extended period of time away from any wall outlets.
Otherwise, meh. I have a handful of different power banks and it’s no bigs to charge them all using a smart usb charger hub.
Christmas shopping finished! in for 20! Yes, I am a lazy thoughtless bastard that does not really think about the gifts I give.
I wonder why I am so lonely…
So mine arrived, I am very disappointed. Opened them all and pressed the power button on them to just try them out. One immediately had it’s battery bulge and split apart the case, didn’t catch fire but made a bad smell. Others seemed ok, was plugging each into a small tablet just to check that the charge indicator would turn on. A different one of them plugged in to the tablet when the battery was turned on caused the tablet to go dark, it’s a dead tablet now.
When charging a phone they were making strange sounds, kind of like no signal static snow on an old tv.
So now I’ve got 8 of these things, only 5 have been tested working, but I’ve lost confidence in using them.
I should’ve known something was up when I tried to cancel 30 minutes after placing the order and got notice 12 hours later that they had shipped out already - is this still meh?
Charging now, 2 doa, debating whether to risk using them.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
10x Jumpr Mini 1700 mAh powerbank
10x Micro USB charging cable
Micro USB model only: 10x female micro USB to female USB-A adapter
Price Comparison
$179.90 (for 10) at Amazon
Warranty
90 Day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery
Tuesday, July 21st - Monday, July 27th
STACKED!
Who needs juice you can’t drink?
I hate not having money.
/image no money
That would look like my wallet if it was stuffed with receipts and other random bits of paper.
Now if Meh would just sell some stackable refrigerators…
No USB Type-C?
@heartny Meh will sell USB-C stuff after that bastardized standard with shitty connectors dies. Micro USB FTW!
@caffeineguy In the meantime, I’ll use adapters. I don’t have 10, but pretty close.
@caffeineguy
What don’t you like about the Type-C connectors?
That they don’t exist in 4D?
@caffeineguy @PlacidPenguin
I thought that I was the only one…
@caffeineguy @PlacidPenguin I always thought the explanation was that USB connectors are fermions, so you have to rotate them 720 degrees to get back to the original state.
@caffeineguy @PlacidPenguin Even Intel has documented it.
@caffeineguy @heartny USB-C is the new standard my guy. It’s not going anywhere.
@blaineg @caffeineguy @PlacidPenguin @hughgrection Can’t give you all enough stars, this pleases me so much. Though they might be neutron stars, just because fermions.
@heartny @StevenS757 You mean like HD-DVD? 100GB Bluray? Firewire? Consensus is that many people dislike USB-C and it’s riddled with problems. Plenty of phones in 2018 are still coming out with Micro USB.
@heartny sheesh… cant hardly get anything with a type C. Drives me nuts. I won’t get a type C phone again.
Do I need to keep these in the fridge?
@curtise Only if you want them to be fresh.
@curtise @shahnm What about the freezer? Will they then die of hypothermia, freezer burn or be in suspended animation?
@curtise @Kidsandliz Don’t talk to me about the freezer.
Who thought of the idea that stacking is a feature power banks needed to have?
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@shahnm time to unload that Beas… um beastly good photograph of the sunset.
@bruhaha vvvv See next post vvvv
I really just want to buy them to stack and charge them. But my one power bank is enough.
@darkzrobe You seem to be in a bit of a pickle, indeed.
You can bank on these power banks
no bluetooth?
Can you connect them all together to make one 17,000 mHa power do-hickie??
@actionPacked Tesla Model 3’s contain only 10,000 of these.
@actionPacked No. This model will only charge while stacked with the bottom unit plugged in.
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@actionPacked @longviewite pretty cool that they have higher capacity versions that also sequentially stack-discharge. To bad these don’t - especially at only 1700 mAh rated.
Can you buy micro USB ones and lightning ones and stack them on each other?
@tritzbitz13 Live free and shun convention, that’s what I say…
@tritzbitz13 yep!
I wish there was a 50/50 option. Since my household has both Lightening and micro usb phones. Not that I NEED more back up batteries. But I probably would have bought if there was a split set. And no I don’t need 20 of them.
@remo28 ditto - actually… now I see the micro usb one contains an usb A adapter… I can just plug a lighting cable into it.
@remo28 The 50/50 option costs $20, but as a bonus you get double the power banks.
6am edit: ha, yes, I am bad at math at night. $60.
@dave I want the $20 option… On my screen the 50/50 option costs $60.
@dave @remo28 I’ll take the 50/50 with double for $20 as well dave.
@dave also, I’ll take the job of the guy that gets to scrape 66% of your net income. :p
Yep, I’d grab them if there was a mixed set option.
@remo28 Me too. So I bought 20.
@dave I want the $20 option as well…
… however, lacking that, I’ll settle for the 6 hour later comment edit feature.
If I had nine friends and we actually did things outdoors, these could be useful. But, I don’t have nine friends or do things outdoors. I am not stacked.
@hchavers If you were stacked, you’d have more friends.
@hchavers @shahnm And hopefully, one of them would be a chiropractor.
@hchavers @shahnm Oww. My eyes just stretched.
“We made a crazy-high stack of 37 and the conductive charging was still working.”
Is this a Clerks reference?
@thperez1972 not unless they were in a row.
@thperez1972 Try not to charge any power banks on your way to the parking lot!
“Output: 5V/1A max”. So, great if you want to power ten 2011 Verizon Droid RAZRs…
I’m not sure what to do with even one of these weaklings, let alone ten.
/image altruistic ecstatic skate
/giphy altruistic-ecstatic-skate
@narfcake
@mfladd
@narfcake Yeah! Skate n Surf… What a life! Too bad I now have to work for the ‘man’…
@mfladd What witchcraft is this?
(I know, but I still enjoy watching it.)
I can’t think of any words to match my emotions.
I got a set just to see if this stack charging works.
Wasted-neutral-frog
Guessing these won’t work with any of the cases I prefer and I’m not willing to drop $30 to find out. But if it helps, I really want some.
@joelmw ditto. I know with that neck it won’t fit in my phone case. Why do they do that?
@joelmw @katbyter Why do they do that?
They didn’t ask you two first.
/giphy this
@karamazovsdevil @katbyter So much pain, suffering and assorted dysfunction in the world could be averted if folks would just make a habit of checking with me first. Goddamnit.
@joelmw @karamazovsdevil I’m looking in the mirror! I’ve said that so many times I can’t count! Why, just why? Would it take that long to just ask me? It’s not like you’re busy with usability studies or focus groups.
@joelmw @karamazovsdevil @katbyter
Tell me about it, brother. People who think they know everything really piss off those of us that actually do.
If you had a crazy high stack of empty ones. Then placed a full one on top and had the bottom one charge from the top. I wonder how the energy would flow.
@thedarkhaze same way the spice does.
@thedarkhaze Nothing would happen. This model will only charge while stacked with the bottom unit plugged in.
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@thedarkhaze Downhill.
another good for fukyu item
Would they charge if I set these on the Duracell charger that MEH sold?
@caffeine_dude nope. These are conductive charging units.
@caffeine_dude @djslack I’m willing to believe that you’re right (and I vaguely recall a discussion to this effect), but more detail would be helpful. Obviously you’re saying that the Duracells aren’t conductive. So what exactly are they, in contrast?
@caffeine_dude @djslack @joelmw
Inductive. Basic deduction.
@djslack @joelmw https://meh.com/forum/topics/duracell-8800mah--1850mah-power-bank-set-with-or-without-powermat
@joelmw @mike808 got it. The powermat uses an inductive coil to wirelessly charge the packs. These have those little metal contacts that have to touch each other to pass the power along, like the buzzer things they hand you at some restaurants to signal when your table is ready.
@djslack I was going for a reductive response. Get it now?
@djslack @joelmw @mike808 I see what you mean, now that I look at the product with my PC.
@djslack Or that buzzer thing you hide in your hand to shake a friend’s hand?
@caffeine_dude @djslack @joelmw
I’m glad that was productive.
@caffeine_dude @djslack @joelmw @mike808 Great job of conductive reasoning folks! Meh is proud of you! At least as proud as Meh gets about anything.
@caffeine_dude @djslack @mike808 Indeed, it was very instructive.
@caffeine_dude @djslack @mike808 And this manner of speech, quite seductive.
Too bad it’s only 1,700 mAh. The batteries that came with those portable fans I loved so much are 2,600 mAh and were the same price.
@JT954 Those don’t stack and charge, though.
Can I do 5 micro usb and 5 lightning for $20 total?
@thismyusername
/giphy laughter
I like how close the model number is to jumanji.
/giphy robin williams jumanji
Power up some crap for camping, I guess.
/giphy goofy-mushy-loris
I really want these and I have no idea why. I hardly ever use the random assortment of power banks I already own, although I do keep them conscientiously charged just in case. Somehow the idea of 10 identical power banks neatly stacked replacing the jumble of banks I have today resonates deeply with me.
I also lie awake at night fantasizing then when I win the lottery, the first thing I will do is replace all my clothes hangers with a matching set.
@hughgrection If you buy 10 of these, and sell all your mismatching ones at a yard sale, you can probably afford to buy new coat hangers
I wish I could buy another BEM power bank charging station. 2.1A output, both lightning and microUSB cables attached, 2600maH per unit.
This offering is a pale shadow…
@stienman It loses on one metric: try stacking 37 of these together and still getting them to charge.
I’d like to see this stack of 37 power banks
@m33rkat Huh? They showed it in third pic.
@narfcake oh whoops, I missed that!
@m33rkat @narfcake That’s only 30 of them.
@MrMark Well don’t blame
me@dave that the stack pic doesn’t match the write-up.@MrMark @narfcake Well in that case, my request stands!
(also, you counted?)
@m33rkat 37 will certainly make the fire and rescue job interesting in a house fire as everyone is counting the explosions waiting for it to be safe to enter
@m33rkat I did count. Why? I don’t know.
@m33rkat @MrMark thank you.
Egregiously lazy photo-shopping of three sets of ten rather than paying attention to details they should have realized mehtizens would expose.
@caffeineguy @m33rkat Aww, that’s easy - you just wait until the fire is out and everything has cooled back down.
How on Earth did I decide that ten is not enough but twenty will do? I only have one phone.
In for 2.
@timsthebomb accomplished in the finest sense of the Meh-hoarder way. Kudos.
With a 1A charger, those 37 power banks are going to take a LONG time to charge.
@MWPollard I don’t see this as a problem in the real world. I’d expect to charge the entire stack, then stow several in various emergency use locations/bags… leaving several in the stack.
Then periodically - assuming I could remember where I put them (a big assumption) - cycle them into the stack to top them off.
(If they follow the existence of our many other USB batteries, they rarely get used anyway.)
I’ve ordered twice and cancelled twice. Time to step away from the computer.
@sammydog01 similar boat for me.
Do you think this might be a strong enough reason to pry one of my three unscathed vmpbribe codes loose?
Two bucks per slab seems more rational than three.
How many will I need to make my own Tesla Roadster?
@Pufferfishy ALL of them.
@blaineg @Pufferfishy Or you can just run blindly into the road and get hit by a truck for free…
@shahnm I guess with the appropriate back-story this is somehow humorous?
I want tethered charging cable and 2.1A output and inductive charging…why is that so hard to find??
@giolee88 Because you also want it cheap…
@giolee88 well, I want a 50/50 micro USB/Lightning stack option for $30 but it doesn’t appear to be happening.
@giolee88 @RedOak did you order micro? I’ll trade you 5 for 5
@giolee88 @spiciernoodles nope. Was saved by the sellout of the Lightning version. And my very tiny anti-hoard gene was just barely strong enough to say no to the MicroUSB version. #GratefulMehLaunchBudgetEnded
How many are we going to get in the fuko box?..if I ever sign in early enough to get one.
@goldnectar
You rolled a total of 5
/roll 1d20
Problem solved. Lightning version sold out.
@RedOak Upsetting since thats the one i wanted.
Do these start charging when you plug the to-be-charged device in, or is another button press required? I’m looking at these to power microcontroller projects, but the banks that require you to press a button to begin charging are non-starters for me. If they are ‘always-on’, I’m in for 10 or 20.
@meverett For a brief, shining moment I thought “Raspberry Pi!” as the size of the pack is perfect for a RPi 2 or 3 board. Then I noticed that 1A output.
@mehcuda67 Yeah, no RPi, but it can run an ESP8266 or Arduino/Teensy/Atmel for quite a while!
@mehcuda67 @meverett
I learned the hard way about power intake for the Pi, especially if one is using it for something like ownCloud (or nextCloud).
On the bright side, lifetime warranty on the micro SD card.
Self-reply after a bit more looking around:
That little orange button next to the contacts seems to require a press to begin charging. Oh well…
Will a phone with inductive charging charge if you set it on top of these?
@deuce44 I don’t believe so.
@deuce44 these are conductive, not inductive charging.
Is it just me, or is this scenario a disturbingly plausible comment on the plight of humanity? Maybe we’re always just one ditz from a mushroom cloud.
@mehcuda67 Cat.
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/catastrophe
No lightning connectors held over for the VMPs?
@Wimateeka Nope, it doesn’t usually work that way. VMP setback is usually out of all inventory, not from each item option.
It’s cool that they can operate as one huge power bank while stacked. While not exactly portable that way, I can see some applications for powering something for an extended period of time away from any wall outlets.
Otherwise, meh. I have a handful of different power banks and it’s no bigs to charge them all using a smart usb charger hub.
@medz these little ones don’t do the stacked discharge function, according to the trade show video linked in this thread.
@djslack ah, so these are totes lame. Thanks.
Christmas shopping finished! in for 20! Yes, I am a lazy thoughtless bastard that does not really think about the gifts I give.
I wonder why I am so lonely…
@gnotgonna stared your comment to “unlonely” you just a tiny bit.
Any chance I can change my order to lightening?
@pateicia lightning sold out long ago.
Anyone know when these mofos will want to ship?
@jzmacdaddy from the top of the page:
@RiotDemon Looks like the bad news from the people that got them has forced Meh to delay shipping.
I wish I had noted the 1amp output before I purchased. Would have been a deal breaker. And one of them is defective.
So mine arrived, I am very disappointed. Opened them all and pressed the power button on them to just try them out. One immediately had it’s battery bulge and split apart the case, didn’t catch fire but made a bad smell. Others seemed ok, was plugging each into a small tablet just to check that the charge indicator would turn on. A different one of them plugged in to the tablet when the battery was turned on caused the tablet to go dark, it’s a dead tablet now.
When charging a phone they were making strange sounds, kind of like no signal static snow on an old tv.
So now I’ve got 8 of these things, only 5 have been tested working, but I’ve lost confidence in using them.
I had the micro usb ones btw.
@sykl0ps So you’re saying it might be a bad idea to bring these on a plane?
@sykl0ps Oh wow! Now I’m afraid to use mine
Dear Meh. 10 is a good deal at $30, but 5 busted ones and 5 “should I risk charging my $1000 iPhone with these things?” Is not.
WOW! Just…WOW!
@HoofHarted I know! Right?
I should’ve known something was up when I tried to cancel 30 minutes after placing the order and got notice 12 hours later that they had shipped out already - is this still meh?
Charging now, 2 doa, debating whether to risk using them.
I like the flashing lights; like a mini-server setup
So what do we do if we have a few of these that are bad? Is there any return policy?
@jzmacdaddy I’m not staff, but the Mediocre 90 day warranty does not cover batteries.