Oddly, I’m grabbing some for my coworkers who keep sending SOSs for “does anyone have a charger” because I don’t trust those fuckers with my cables, but will donate less than a buck to shut them up.
If you live in a low income rural place like I do, the chances of getting caught in a time warp/2nd world conditions happens a few times a year. I hope I get these before Aug 10 so I can give some to my NASA bound son’s road trip… sorry-unyielding-rabbit
For some reason I like this idea. Phone dies at sporting event or at the beach, or while sightseeing etc.this seems like a quick solution, so bought one of each pack since I am Android and the rest of the fam are iPhones. Good If they last as long unused as advertised…
these are great for a bugout/emergency bag, and to vouch for their usefulness- the local pub sells these for $5 each to the unfortunates who’s phones are fading out instead of them leaching outlets in the place.
@2many2no nope- but they have 32 different beers and 10 ciders on tap, and I can still drive home after. Margaritas involve AAA and explaining why I can’t drive the car home, and an awkward tip to the flatbed driver.
@alacrity If you need a bugout bag, then I imagine it’s because of some sort of apocalypse. At some point the power grid will start failing which means electricity will fail which means the cell network will eventually fail. Making these useless.
@woo545 no, bud- I have a bugout bag because my ex is doing the maniacal-menpause tango, and the last few years found me grabbing the bag and heading for the hills on more than one occasion. I still have the bugout bag- the ex… not so much.
Yeah, I’m no prepper, but in recent months I’ve felt compelled to create a couple week supply of emergency supplies. These will be gold when paired with a low-end feature phone or USB flash light.
My phone uses (and I think most new phones use?) USB-C, so even though I’d like some to keep around for emergencies, I can’t use them without a micro-to-USB-C adapter. I don’t l really feel like buying 20 of those (because 8 will inevitably get lost somewhere) just to use with a disposable battery pack. Got any USB-C packs back there?
@Pantheist apparently li-ion batteries can expect to lose about half of their charge after 6 months. My 20000mah battery would likely still have more juice than one of these after sitting in a drawer for a year. Granted that’s not 4 years, but I think I can remember to charge it every once in a while.
@Pantheist TL;DR They don’t all but I suppose some could…2 weeks is a pretty quick rate of “self discharge” as the phenomenon is known.
It all depends on the design of the cell, how robust the separator is between the anode and cathode materials. There are always tradeoffs in how much space you use for active stuff and packaging. A lot of electrolyte gets you a nice rate capability but less capacity because you took out some reactive stuff to make space for the electrolyte. Just one crude example, but you see the point.
I bought some with lightning connector last time and took on a trip. Cable didn’t fit snugly and kept falling out. Maybe it would have worked on bedside table but I had a regular charger then. Pass.
Powrtabs? 1000 mAh total capacity, output: 5V @ 380mA
So it will take almost 3 hours to drain one of these and will charge my phone maybe to 50%.
And I just refused to buy a 10,000 mAh 5V @ 2000 mA lithium battery pack because it didn’t support Qualcomm’s QC 2.0 or higher.
Meh.
me: "Pat, can a buy a vowel please? An ‘E’?"
Pat Sajak: "Sorry, no ‘E’"
me: "WTF? There’s an ‘O’, and an ‘A’, but no ‘E’?"
Pat Sajak: “Sorry, no ‘E’, it was just too expensive for the company to purchase the rights to use the ‘E’. They spent all their money on biodegradable and non-biodegrable single use packaging”
The only reason I could see using this is if you get stranded on an island and you have to trapse around to find that single spot you get a bar to show up on your phone. Carrying a handful of these would allow you to look for that signal.
I should buy these for my wife, who is a frequent flyer. There are many times when flights are delayed and people are looking for outlets to charge their phones. She could easily sell these for $5 each (she keeps two 16-18kMah battery packs with her). Except she would just give them away, because that’s who she is, so MEH…
I bought them because I can get my daughter to put one in her purse where the larger recharge packs are “too big”. Luckily 1/2 the family is still on Micro USB
"Big Macs won’t age well if you shove them in the corner of your fallout shelter for a few years, " ~not true. There’s YouTube vids of big macs and fries many years old… McPoo food doesn’t break down… makes great survival rations!
If they work. . .a boat stranded at sea within cell range would be a good place for these. . .if you in fact had a phone with no charge, and if you were looking for a way out (or in)
I came back today because I realized I forgot to click the Meh button last night. I hardly ever click the Meh button, but these seemed especially worthy.
One of these saved us on our last trip to New York while we were all crowded into a Lyft car in Midtown and unable to dig down for my recharging battery. This was just what we needed when we needed it. Still have several left over from the last time you sold these but I must get more…just in case!
@therealjrn Ha! Bought two sets ‘yesterday.’ Just didn’t get around to saying anything about them until this morning.
Phooey on blue tooth speakers. I’m an earbud guy.
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12x Powrtabs
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Price Comparison
$83.88 (for 12) at Amazon
Warranty
30 Day Powrtabs
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Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
With the tons of rechargeable ones I bought on Meh, there’s no need to buy disposable ones.
This is perfect for the person who has everything.
And even better for the one who is trying to simplify/declutter their life… it’ll drive them bonkers!
Not before and still not now.
No USB-C. For that alone, meh.
USB snob.
@medz By the time I’d need one, USB-D will be out.
Right on. USB-C 4 life.
/giphy bear-high-five
@tizio What?
I thought USB-C was 3.1
Explain all you want, still not buying them.
@sammydog01 These cant be great for the environment either…
@Konraden They’re 100% recyclable. Now who’s bad for the environment? (I didn’t buy any
)
These would have been great for the fukos.
Disposable, what the fuck? What are they made out of? Something the planet enjoys in rivers?
@hachi05 They’re made of 100% landfill, of course.
(With just a hint of vanilla.)
No GMO’s and loaded with PCB’s.
@hachi05 Given that it wasn’t made out of asteroids… probably?
No chance I’m buying these.
I would have bought one, but my phone ran out of cha
@shahnm RIP
If they gave me an instant boost, maybe I would bite. So Meh.
(but thank god for cocaine…am I right?)
@Kerig3 I hear it’s a hell of a drug
@medz I wouldn’t know personally, other than having a coked-up boss back in the 80’s…it was like having a tornado as a manager.
I’ll never understand how these are a thing
@Superllama7
/giphy USB mating
@Superllama7 They are not person, place, nor animal. So by process of deduction…
@shahnm
(sorry if you got a lot of notifications, I don’t know how to post images)
Oddly, I’m grabbing some for my coworkers who keep sending SOSs for “does anyone have a charger” because I don’t trust those fuckers with my cables, but will donate less than a buck to shut them up.
@Jamileigh17 at 12 for $18 you’re donating a buck 50 for each one.
I’m so sorry, 12-for-T12sday must be my fault.
I have no excuse for what I was thinking.
/giphy 12’s day
If you live in a low income rural place like I do, the chances of getting caught in a time warp/2nd world conditions happens a few times a year. I hope I get these before Aug 10 so I can give some to my NASA bound son’s road trip…
sorry-unyielding-rabbit
For some reason I like this idea. Phone dies at sporting event or at the beach, or while sightseeing etc.this seems like a quick solution, so bought one of each pack since I am Android and the rest of the fam are iPhones. Good If they last as long unused as advertised…
@readnj
"Warranty 30 Day Powrtabs"
Could I keep these in the car like I would a standard charger or are these sensitive to heat?
If I used it for an hour, how long can I use up the remaining three hours before I have to toss/recycle it?
Legit questions.
@JT954 Just a wild guess, but mehbe you can use it in the future for three hours?
@JT954 @haydesigner Why wouldn’t you treat it like a battery? Do you think it is some kind of exotic technology?
@therealjrn Single use battery + condom packaging = Yes.
these are great for a bugout/emergency bag, and to vouch for their usefulness- the local pub sells these for $5 each to the unfortunates who’s phones are fading out instead of them leaching outlets in the place.
They go through a few hundred a week.
@alacrity I hope a bar that supports drunk texting makes damn good margaritas.
@2many2no nope- but they have 32 different beers and 10 ciders on tap, and I can still drive home after. Margaritas involve AAA and explaining why I can’t drive the car home, and an awkward tip to the flatbed driver.
@alacrity If you need a bugout bag, then I imagine it’s because of some sort of apocalypse. At some point the power grid will start failing which means electricity will fail which means the cell network will eventually fail. Making these useless.
@woo545 no, bud- I have a bugout bag because my ex is doing the maniacal-menpause tango, and the last few years found me grabbing the bag and heading for the hills on more than one occasion. I still have the bugout bag- the ex… not so much.
Oh, I get it now. But the conclusion is the same: meh.
/giphy bizarre novelty condoms you might pick up at a Japanese truck stop
hmm
@awk Last episode of Voyager.
What do I win?
@ShotgunX condoms?
@Kidsandliz What the hell would I need those for?
@ShotgunX To last up to 4 hours longer.
Yeah, I’m no prepper, but in recent months I’ve felt compelled to create a couple week supply of emergency supplies. These will be gold when paired with a low-end feature phone or USB flash light.
More like vowl issues, amirite?
/giphy joke
My phone uses (and I think most new phones use?) USB-C, so even though I’d like some to keep around for emergencies, I can’t use them without a micro-to-USB-C adapter. I don’t l really feel like buying 20 of those (because 8 will inevitably get lost somewhere) just to use with a disposable battery pack. Got any USB-C packs back there?
@harveydanger meh will get the USB-C packs when the standard is USB-E
Is the price going the wrong way?
@thismyusername The decimal point on the price needs to be at least one more towards the left too. Preferably two. Maybe three.
Euripedes, I mended these!
@username
@username
/giphy radical-sedate-termite
I find it hard to believe that all rechargeable batteries lose their charge within a couple weeks.
@Pantheist apparently li-ion batteries can expect to lose about half of their charge after 6 months. My 20000mah battery would likely still have more juice than one of these after sitting in a drawer for a year. Granted that’s not 4 years, but I think I can remember to charge it every once in a while.
@Pantheist TL;DR They don’t all but I suppose some could…2 weeks is a pretty quick rate of “self discharge” as the phenomenon is known.
It all depends on the design of the cell, how robust the separator is between the anode and cathode materials. There are always tradeoffs in how much space you use for active stuff and packaging. A lot of electrolyte gets you a nice rate capability but less capacity because you took out some reactive stuff to make space for the electrolyte. Just one crude example, but you see the point.
@mehvermore lookatmehwhenimtalking. . .self discharge is phenomenal
@jamminonthejuan Come again?
I bought some with lightning connector last time and took on a trip. Cable didn’t fit snugly and kept falling out. Maybe it would have worked on bedside table but I had a regular charger then. Pass.
/giphy grating beastly meeting
I’ll hide some in the car. Will probably be worth it one of these times.
Hey, Meh. Bundle these things with one of these and I’m in. https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-3310
Powrtabs? 1000 mAh total capacity, output: 5V @ 380mA
So it will take almost 3 hours to drain one of these and will charge my phone maybe to 50%.
And I just refused to buy a 10,000 mAh 5V @ 2000 mA lithium battery pack because it didn’t support Qualcomm’s QC 2.0 or higher.
Meh.
me: "Pat, can a buy a vowel please? An ‘E’?"
Pat Sajak: "Sorry, no ‘E’"
me: "WTF? There’s an ‘O’, and an ‘A’, but no ‘E’?"
Pat Sajak: “Sorry, no ‘E’, it was just too expensive for the company to purchase the rights to use the ‘E’. They spent all their money on biodegradable and non-biodegrable single use packaging”
Explaining them better made me want them even less.
The only reason I could see using this is if you get stranded on an island and you have to trapse around to find that single spot you get a bar to show up on your phone. Carrying a handful of these would allow you to look for that signal.
Do these come with iphone4 adaptor? (Just kidding) not for me today
I should buy these for my wife, who is a frequent flyer. There are many times when flights are delayed and people are looking for outlets to charge their phones. She could easily sell these for $5 each (she keeps two 16-18kMah battery packs with her). Except she would just give them away, because that’s who she is, so MEH…
I bought them because I can get my daughter to put one in her purse where the larger recharge packs are “too big”. Luckily 1/2 the family is still on Micro USB
Why would I buy these when they obviously don’t work? I see no chargy lightningy symbol over the battery icony thing.
@Satchmo By gosh he’s right! I’m cancelling my 12 orders!
@Satchmo It just finished charging - you missed it.
I get it! BUT, in a real emergency can they be eaten?
"Big Macs won’t age well if you shove them in the corner of your fallout shelter for a few years, " ~not true. There’s YouTube vids of big macs and fries many years old… McPoo food doesn’t break down… makes great survival rations!
@SoftAsFur I came here solely to make sure that got pointed out. Thank you for doing it so I didn’t have to fumble for words.
@SoftAsFur
@SoftAsFur It’s the salt content. Keeps food dry so they don’t spoil.
No USB-C option. Meh.
What? A load of shit… 4 my shit… Dat’s the shit, man…
If they work. . .a boat stranded at sea within cell range would be a good place for these. . .if you in fact had a phone with no charge, and if you were looking for a way out (or in)
I came back today because I realized I forgot to click the Meh button last night. I hardly ever click the Meh button, but these seemed especially worthy.
Do you have these for Palm Pixi Plus? I’m still using that phone. webOS rules!
@wew oh my gahhhd i remember my pixi plus. it has a pink wireless charging cover with a wireless charger
anyway the micro usb version of this powrtabs will work with the pixi plus
One of these saved us on our last trip to New York while we were all crowded into a Lyft car in Midtown and unable to dig down for my recharging battery. This was just what we needed when we needed it. Still have several left over from the last time you sold these but I must get more…just in case!
@leeeoooooo Too bad for you then, the sale ended yesterday. May I interest you in a cool country blue tooth speaker?
@therealjrn Ha! Bought two sets ‘yesterday.’ Just didn’t get around to saying anything about them until this morning.
Phooey on blue tooth speakers. I’m an earbud guy.
Tried 2 android ones. 1 didn’t work, 1 doesn’t fit… What the fuck?!
@ecredit1987 Try rotating the one that didn’t fit 90 degrees.
/giphy micro usb rotate