Daily Deal: 72% Off Power Vault 18000mAh Portable Battery Pack
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept
Today’s Daily Deal gets you 72% off the Power Vault 18000mAh Portable Battery Pack. This light-weight and compact (0.4″ thick) pack lets you charge 2 USB-compatible devices at once. It has enough power to keep your phone or tablet online while you’re out and about and can easily fit in your backpack, laptop case or purse. There are only 4 days left on this deal.
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Comments on “Daily Deal: 72% Off Power Vault 18000mAh Portable Battery Pack”
Just to be clear, is this thing actually capable of keeping my laptop running? (On a plane, for example?) It appears from the linked page that all it can provide power though is USB ports, but my laptop draws its power from standard wall sockets.
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No, this will not power a laptop that requires a standard AC power supply. It will power a tablet, phone or media device that accepts power from USB.
Even if you found a way to adapt the USB with an inverter (or a step up voltage converter to DC), I doubt this thing could handle the load of most laptops… it’s simply not designed for it and it would likely be dangerous (think exploding batteries).
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Oops! Good catch there. Sorry for that and I’ve updated the post.
Silly Numbers
Shouldn’t that be 18Ah?
Nah, lets go for big numbers, 18000000uAh!
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“Shouldn’t that be 18Ah?”
No. It should use the same basis as other USB batteries, and the basis used in the batteries in portable electronic devices. An iPhone 5 battery, for example, is listed as 1440mAh, not 1.44Ah. Electrical engineering pedants are free to convert to to amp hours in their heads, of course.
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“An iPhone 5 battery, for example, is listed as 1440mAh, not 1.44Ah.”
It relieves me a hundred thousand thousandths percent to know the choice of units flows from clarity and not marketing aggrandizement.
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Similarly, 2 extra strength tylenol are usually referred to as 1000 Milligrams vs 1 gram.
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For the sake of adding more significant figures 😉
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1000 and 1 have exactly the same quantity of significant figures.
Does anyone know anything about this company that’s behind Techdirt’s marketing campaign?
I did a whois on stackcommerce.com, and it was registered two years ago by “Domains By Proxy” — not exactly something that inspires confidence when handing over your credit card details.
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Go check out the website if you want. They are a perfectly reputable company, with partnerships with several large blogs. Many, many, many domains for companies large and small are registered using WhoIs Proxies. Attempting to portray that as sketchy is just silly, and feels like a desperate attempt to discredit this campaign by any means, for no obvious reason.
Shame they don’t ship to the UK – I’d have had your hand off for these – festival season is approaching! =)
Techdirt is also a shopping blog now?