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Caution: Techstorm has a new toy.

 

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I can borrow a unit for free as long as I return it within 24 hours.  Little panel is really cool and gives techie stats (temp of battery, power draw, power capacity left in units of Wh).  USB charging is 5V/3A, outlet plug rates for 100W output (which means it's too much of a pussy to charge my 180W Dell G7; yes I tried it and failed).

 

Did you know that iPhones pull 10-12W through the USB while charging?

  1. RGProductions

    RGProductions

    I actually did know that iPhones pull that much haha

  2. vanished

    vanished

    Higher than I thought but still much lower than most other phones given the opportunity.  Not that I'm a fan of fast charging at all.  1.5 amps (~7.5 W) is plenty for me.  And I'm not surprised the laptop didn't work.  Those bricks tend to be very inefficient, especially at low load (at least as far as I can tell).  I learned this when a laptop I knew to use ~10 W at idle and ~65 W under load continually popped a 150 W breaker while idling.

  3. Gegger

    Gegger

    i need one to throw at people when they don't charge their chromebooks at school

     

    it's interesting, i'd like to see it be improved on

  4. Techstorm970

    Techstorm970

    @Ryan_Vickers Yeah my power brick started buzzing because it could tell that the Omnicharge wasn't a "reliable" source of power.  Laptop was running/charging at 50-70 watts until I opened Outlook with all of my bloated add-ons for it.  Then it jumped to 112 watts and the battery nope-quit on me.

     

    I like fast-charging for phones because it saves time and is not hard to pull off.

     

    @Schnoz Apple USB plugs have always been shit.  That's why I didn't bring one of them to college with me.  ;)

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