3-Pack: iEssentials 5W Wireless Charging Pad with 2 USB Ports
8Apparently today’s offering was too dull for the staff to bother with a discussion thread.
I couldn’t care less, but was surprised they weren’t made into a stack of pancakes like so many other flat objects sold in multiples here.
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This must be a sign indicating how self-explanatory it truly must be.
Be nice to have more information about them though like they usually do. Hopefully they will add that to this thread.
So is this one of the ones where you have to line it up “just so” or you get nothing?
I assume 5W is good enough for a smartphone like the iPhone SE 2020, but maybe not for the newer ones? Or maybe that doesn’t matter if you’re ok with a slower charge?
@a13z my iPhone se 2020 can wireless charge? Slow chargers are probably good for battery health if you just want to leave them on for hours like when you go to bed.
@a13z @kus Yes, as long as the case isn’t to thick. Works well with my RavPower QI charging pad.
If I stack them will it charge 3x as fast?
@awk Works just like a Marshall stack!
I don’t think these will waffle well.
Plug it in to 220 for 10watt charging. I’m in!!
If I combine the 2 1A outputs, does that mean I get 2A faster charging?
@robson If the two ports have a common ground, and your Y-shaped USB cable can take the current, yes.
No Qi for mi
5W is going to make for an incredibly slow charging experience. For reference, the math is as follows:
5V * 2A = 10W (fairly normal wall charger)
5V * 4A = 20W (Qualcomm QC class charging, which may also vary voltage as needed up to values like 9V * 2A to achieve almost the same thing)…
If I want to charge at a ridiculously slow pace, I can just dig out my early iPod Touch USB brick from over 10 years ago, and still go faster than this.
For the times when I want a good wireless charger, I look to models by Choetech, Yootech, or Nulaxy. Anker has some good ones as well, but it all comes down to heat management when you’re distributing power like this, and you need decent equipment to do it well.
@arosiriak the power bricks that (until recently) came with new iPhones were all 5V * 1A. They won’t charge a tablet, but work alright for a phone if you’re not in a rush. These look nice for a nightstand or desk for a day job to me.
After an extensive search, I amazingly found ZERO bad reviews for this item.
@phendrick Did you find ANY reviews?
@blaineg Nope, nada. That was my point – guess I was being too subtle. Sorry.
I imagine if Mother Teresa had published a book on how to help the poor, even it would have some bad reviews.
@blaineg
Places listed as selling it were (1) usually smaller electronic dealers (such as camera shops) and (2) quite often had zero content [and likely zero inventory] on the product pages when brought up. Got a lot of 404 errors. And not a hint of a review or rating. Meh marketing was not just being lazy on this (as they are on some Mehrathons).
At the price I might have bought if I had spare cash (which I don’t – tax season, including property taxes
– appraisals went down but rates went up so about a wash). I have an older Samsung phone to which I installed a wireless charging adapter above the battery which worked OK, but have since lost the charger itself I had. It’s a convenience, but not a necessity. And actually there is probably not much that can go wrong on one of these, if made decently with proper shielding.
@blaineg @phendrick There’s an entire Wikipedia page devoted to criticism of Mother Teresa!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
@phendrick I figured that was what you meant, I’m just a smart-alec.
OK, I want to take all my sofa end tables, and route out an appropriate size hole, and have these sit flush!
@esbaylus Sounds like a plan. A weird plan, but a plan none-the-less.
@esbaylus for what it’s worth you could probably route out on the bottom if you were careful so the top still looks normal. Field should be able to penetrate a thin bit of wood
Last I checked, “a couple…” was two.
Meh is so retro cool! They consistently sell outdated technology from 6 years ago! Neat!
I got a 2 pack of these from sidedeal and they require me to remove my phone case to charge. They’re not fast, but I usually set my phone on it while preparing and eating family meals, which gives plenty of time to charge up for the evening.
Don’t remember if it’s a Google or Android thing, but the Pixel phones intentionally go to a slow charge mode to preserve battery health when you plug them in for the night. (Or, I assume, set them on a wireless charger if the phone has that.)
I’ve finally started using one of the Incipio wireless chargers they sold here some time ago. It makes weird little noises, but hasn’t caught fire or anything yet.
@walarney One of Google’s brags for the Pixel Stand wireless charger was that it did fast wireless charging (and was the only stand that would do it for the Pixel 3). Then they removed fast charging with a software update.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/3-pack-iessentials-5w-wireless-charging-pad-with-2-usb-ports-1
Official topic.
@RiotDemon good. I assume the recommendation is to re-type everyone’s comments over on the official thread now? Otherwise this is going to bother someone’s OCD I bet.
@a13z
/giphy as you wish