@cengland0 I didn’t notice that. I was going to say that my best friend has two of these for when we go camping or whatever and they’re totally sweet. But his are QC compatible, and I think he paid a lot more for them.
Still have that TZUMI 12,000 mAh I bought on here a few months ago works great price $9.00 do the math 3x9=27000mAh for 6 bucks less.I would imagine they work just as well shop around !!
@jester747 Yes, but I could not be sure you knew that. Hindsight says that anyone who would even construct that term would know the difference. Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I get great battery life. If I am ever away from an AC outlet for more than four days, this is for me. Chances are, though, that in such a case I wouldn’t be anywhere near a cell tower anyway, so meh.
Argh argh argh they didn’t even try to make the ports line up.
But aside from that, it looks like this could be useful. And apparently it can charge my new MacBook Pro? I dunno, seems weird that it has enough juice for a big honking battery like that.
@akumax that sound like it was designed for the original Raspberry Pi 4. It didn’t do USB-PD, but it expects 5 volts and it may draw, 3 amps if there are peripherals. It didn’t work with some USB-PD power supplies that correctly followed the spec.
@mistamoose well, but that’s from some unknown company that is strangely called “Foc Hew” — say it that way and see what it sounds like.
EDIT this reply was for the previous comment with product link.
@Fen_Star Wait until you find out that the mAh ratings on these things are actually the LiPo capacity which has a nominal 3.7 volts so it needs to be boosted to 5V for the USB outputs. You will get less mAh at 5V than what is advertised (in all cases that I’ve tested anyway). For this reason, I recommend the standard capacity of these devices should be advertised in mWh or just Wh.
@cengland0@Fen_Star I agree. Watt-hours is more useful, as it is how much energy the battery holds.
Amp-hours is only useful to compare one battery against another when saying “battery X is bigger/smaller than battery Y”.
It’s a bit like using liters/gallons to measure petrol/gas, but that won’t tell you how many miles you can drive on a liter/gallon or how long you can run a snow/leaf blower.
Why be honest when you can mislead with alternate facts?
The bit about using 3.7V numbers instead of 5V numbers is a bit if a crock too. Just like the hard drive and SSD/flash drive manufacturers using the decimal number of bytes when everyone other than them uses binary (i.e. “1MB” is 1,024 bytes to you and me, but they only deliver 1,000 bytes and label it with the same capacity).
@cengland0@Fen_Star@mike808 I don’t think the use of mAh over watt-hour is misleading at all for a number of reasons.
For most “normal” customers it doesn’t matter at all-- “bigger is more” is all they know and all they really need to know.
In general, batteries are not heavily current-limited. They’ll give a relatively constant voltage and all the current you’ll try to draw. This makes mAh a very useful descriptor.
A watt-hour is a watt-hour, and it’s a great unit of measuring energy, but without an associated known voltage, you don’t really know what you can do with it. You need a voltage anyway. When you run a device off a battery, you’re pulling current at a specific voltage. You aren’t just pulling watts.
You can’t just swap out a battery with a larger capacity if it’s the wrong voltage.
Tangential, I don’t see it listed, but I would expect this to run on Li-Ion rather than LiPo, just due to issues/safety in charging.
Also a tangent, but the whole memory vs. data storage terminology thing is historic. A MB should be 1000 Bytes. The only reason it computer-architecture specific. When those decisions were being made, they weren’t operating on orders of magnitude where it made much of a difference, so nobody cared.
Once you factor in shipping costs, this is only $2 cheaper than Amazon. Amazon sells this power bank for $43 with Prime shipping. There is a $3 coupon on the page that brings the price down to $40.
Meh is asking $33, but the standard shipping is $5 so the actual price is $38.
$2 cheaper is $2. But with Amazon you’d get the power bank by Christmas if you needed it.
Now I only buy power packs with integrated cables. Recently got my kids one … Integrated cables, for micro USB, usb-c (cable), lightning. Plus it just plugs in the wall to charge!
It works great, but a full pound is a lot heavier than it sounds when it comes to tossing something in your pocket for the day. I found I was frequently leaving it at home, or trying to scam a way for my wife to put it in her purse.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x RAVPower Prime 26800mAh 3-Port Power Bank
2x Micro USB Cables
1x Carry Pouch
1x User Guide
Price Comparison
$42.99 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Will this arrive by Christmas?
@thismyusername Nope.
More power to ya meh.
@Kidsandliz
Not qc 3 compatible?
@cengland0 not this model
@cengland0 Nope. Not even PD compatible. It’s all regular 5v charging.
@cengland0 I didn’t notice that. I was going to say that my best friend has two of these for when we go camping or whatever and they’re totally sweet. But his are QC compatible, and I think he paid a lot more for them.
I’m so glad they have the diagram to show me how to divide 100% by four lights.
@katbyter
/youtube there are 4 lights
Go to 2:20
@2many2no @katbyter 1 of my fave episodes: Thanks for lighting up my night.
Great write up. So glad they are stopping the masked stabber
@davidwr99 I don’t know, man. Can we really trust Mr. Klipton?
/giphy can we really trust anyone?
@davidwr99 I often skip reading the write up but I liked today’s a lot. Are there more parts to the story of the masked stabber?
The Bad: it’s an antique.
The Good: it’s not a dock.
@MrJazz I think they are both bad…
10 bucks of is a deal now? ughh
@sliksetroc $7 if you count the coupon available on Amazon.
There’s a $3 coupon on Amazon right now, so this is really $40 over there. A whopping $7 savings.
Meh.
@TBoneZeOriginal and i have free shipping and can get it before Christmas…
@shaysh @TBoneZeOriginal
If you tack on meh shipping it’s no deal at all. Amazon is quicker and actually has a viable return policy.
@shaysh @SydBeckman That’s true. I’m VMP, but I forgot most people are not.
Oh… If only this was a Tactical RAVPower Prime 26800mAh 3-Port Power Bank… I would have been in for a bunch… Oh well.
@shahnm don’t you dare
@shahnm So if a tactical jacket doesn’t keep you warm, a tactical power bank…
Still have that TZUMI 12,000 mAh I bought on here a few months ago works great price $9.00 do the math 3x9=27000mAh for 6 bucks less.I would imagine they work just as well shop around !!
If you need a power bank, you can’t go wrong with RavPower. They make quality products.
God damn that’s a big ol power bank
Not bad, but I already have 2 high capacity powerbanks that I almost never use. More of this stuff and less of the bullshit beauty products, please.
I wouldn’t mind having a charger for my laptop but I don’t think this is it.
@HankB33 Especially because this would not charge most types of laptops.
26,800 mAh… but even more mEh.
@jester747 is that millimehs or megamehs?
@jester747 @ThunderChicken It’s millimehs, megamehs would be MEh.
@jester747 Yes, but I could not be sure you knew that. Hindsight says that anyone who would even construct that term would know the difference. Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
@ThunderChicken Are we ignoring the possibility that it’s mehga-mehs??
@jester747 Yes, but that is best ignored anyway.
I get great battery life. If I am ever away from an AC outlet for more than four days, this is for me. Chances are, though, that in such a case I wouldn’t be anywhere near a cell tower anyway, so meh.
Argh argh argh they didn’t even try to make the ports line up.
But aside from that, it looks like this could be useful. And apparently it can charge my new MacBook Pro? I dunno, seems weird that it has enough juice for a big honking battery like that.
@TheFLP Good catch. The alignment issue would concern me. Sloppy anywhere, sloppy everywhere.
Although it has USB-C, it is not USB-PD, and the USB-C port has a max input/output of 15W (5V/3A).
I have purchased RavPower 26800mah USB-PD battery packs that can output 45W (15V/3A, 20V/2.25A) which is great for many USB-PD products.
A bonus of USB-PD powerbanks is the fast input charging as well (30-40W input so maybe 2-3 hrs to charge it)
@akumaxI was wondering about this, thanks
@akumax that sound like it was designed for the original Raspberry Pi 4. It didn’t do USB-PD, but it expects 5 volts and it may draw, 3 amps if there are peripherals. It didn’t work with some USB-PD power supplies that correctly followed the spec.
How much power does a person need?
@hchavers
/image max power
@hchavers
@hchavers Ask Jeff Bezos. (Notice how I avoided mentioning Donald Trump or Nancy Pelosi to keep this apolitical.)
@blaineg @hchavers Jeremy Clarkson Ariel Atom
If you can live without a USB-C port or 1000mAh, this model otherwise seems to be virtually Identical and $9 less.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SY7GDQ7
@ciabelle Unfortunately, I can’t live without USB-C. (Original Without You Badfinger version linked to give credit where credit is due.)
I have this one and it works great. It’s a bit chunky and heavy, but a lot of charge.
@mistamoose well, but that’s from some unknown company that is strangely called “Foc Hew” — say it that way and see what it sounds like.
EDIT this reply was for the previous comment with product link.
@mistamoose @pmarin At least they’re honest about it.
Hey meh. This could just be listed as 26.8 Ah Listing things >1 unit as m(unit) is annoying.
Or, you know, you could list as 26,800,000 μAh or 26,800,000,000 nAh or 26,800,000,000,000 pAh or 26,800,000,000,000,000 fAh or…
@Fen_Star Wait until you find out that the mAh ratings on these things are actually the LiPo capacity which has a nominal 3.7 volts so it needs to be boosted to 5V for the USB outputs. You will get less mAh at 5V than what is advertised (in all cases that I’ve tested anyway). For this reason, I recommend the standard capacity of these devices should be advertised in mWh or just Wh.
@cengland0 @Fen_Star I agree. Watt-hours is more useful, as it is how much energy the battery holds.
Amp-hours is only useful to compare one battery against another when saying “battery X is bigger/smaller than battery Y”.
It’s a bit like using liters/gallons to measure petrol/gas, but that won’t tell you how many miles you can drive on a liter/gallon or how long you can run a snow/leaf blower.
Why be honest when you can mislead with alternate facts?
The bit about using 3.7V numbers instead of 5V numbers is a bit if a crock too. Just like the hard drive and SSD/flash drive manufacturers using the decimal number of bytes when everyone other than them uses binary (i.e. “1MB” is 1,024 bytes to you and me, but they only deliver 1,000 bytes and label it with the same capacity).
@cengland0 @Fen_Star @mike808
The motto of the USB Implementers Forum!
@cengland0 @Fen_Star @mike808 I don’t think the use of mAh over watt-hour is misleading at all for a number of reasons.
You can’t just swap out a battery with a larger capacity if it’s the wrong voltage.
Tangential, I don’t see it listed, but I would expect this to run on Li-Ion rather than LiPo, just due to issues/safety in charging.
Also a tangent, but the whole memory vs. data storage terminology thing is historic. A MB should be 1000 Bytes. The only reason it computer-architecture specific. When those decisions were being made, they weren’t operating on orders of magnitude where it made much of a difference, so nobody cared.
Once you factor in shipping costs, this is only $2 cheaper than Amazon. Amazon sells this power bank for $43 with Prime shipping. There is a $3 coupon on the page that brings the price down to $40.
Meh is asking $33, but the standard shipping is $5 so the actual price is $38.
$2 cheaper is $2. But with Amazon you’d get the power bank by Christmas if you needed it.
@whacko This has also been an Amazon Lighting deal quite a few times @ $35
Now I only buy power packs with integrated cables. Recently got my kids one … Integrated cables, for micro USB, usb-c (cable), lightning. Plus it just plugs in the wall to charge!
I bought this one for $35 a few months ago, it does have the quick charge features.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TF73QZS/
It works great, but a full pound is a lot heavier than it sounds when it comes to tossing something in your pocket for the day. I found I was frequently leaving it at home, or trying to scam a way for my wife to put it in her purse.
Does ac charger come with it?
/giphy decorative-starry-krampus
In order for this to be a deal it would have to be <$23
/giphy friendly-philanthropic-unity
