Do you miss passthrough?

#19

I see absolutely no reason as to why anyone would flag your post.

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#20

It could be useful if a solar panel prioritized 1 port more than another so you’d plug in your device in the priority port and if there’s excess energy then it would give the excess to the lower priority port.

The Powercore Fusion is in effect prioritizing the external delivery to internal recharging.

Prioritization is more efficient because to charge a battery to charge a battery will lose energy so charging say a phone 1st and then it isn’t able to take all that’s possible to then charge say a Powercore on the lower priority, would accomplish the same outcome as passthru.

#21

So you don’t unflag unjustly flagged posts due to formatting problems? Stange. For me, it’s the substance that matters, not the superficial.

As I did not find a way to edit my post for conventinal font selection, I will repost it:

I need passthrough so bad.

I am a fan of foldable solar chargers. I own 10 of them, including an 14W Anker (which has the worst claimed to real watt ratio by the way, just outputs 7W. My Kingsolar 14W, same size, outputs 10W, tested with electronic load) and have a solar backpack. My backpack is nice, has a usb plug in the shoulder strap, so the powerbank inside a side pocket can charge my phone in my jaket pocket.The backpacks solar panel is meant to be connected to the powerbank too. It has to have passthrough charging.

I also have tons of powerbanks, some claim to be passthrough capable. Not a single one is usable for my application. All of them just have a makeshift-passthrough. Using solar chargers directly to charge phones, you get lotS of problems when clouds come. My phone permanently plays the charge- nocharge-song. Annoying. Lots of phones dont even restart powerful charging once the chargecurrent dropped. So it makes ton`s of sense to put a powerbank between it, so it gets the full, uninterrupted Amps the powerbank delivers while the solar input just helps.

NONE, I repeat NONE of my 20 powebanks support solar operation. It`s so annoying. Goalzero Flip 10 and 20: So praised and from the solar specialist, but behave jut like a cheap, non-passthrough-capable easyacc6400.

It is always the same: Use a powerful charger to charge the powerbank and the phone gets charged reasonably well at way lower voltage than in no-passthrough mode. But if you use a 400mA solar charger, or a powerful one in clouds, not a single one of my socalled “passthrough”-banks delivers a mA more than the solar panel delivers at the input. So when the sun is covered, the output collapses, Powerbanks reset, the charge-nocharge song is played all the time. It is actually better if you dont use those makeshift-claim-to-be-passthrough powerbanks and charge the phone directly.

My Anker PB-AS004 doesnt help as it only has 12V input.

All other Ankers like PowerCore 5000mAh Powerbank or the bigger 20000+ one don`t work as well. And those super-hyped “Solar specialist” goal zero units perform really abysmal in this regard despite the hefty pricetag.

Please, please be the first and only powerbank manufacturer with a true solar passthrough powerbank on offer. Make one. One that charges my phone with stable 2A and 5,1V while being charged from a 200mA panel.

And it IS possible to make one. I have modified a cheap chinese powerbank, I just added a chréap separate, TP5000, 1500mA Charging pcb parallel to the stepup and it works like charm. You have additional losses, ok, as the charge current goes through the tps with the losses due to efficiency, and then gets transformed up again with additional losses by the original stepup. But It delivers superstable passthrough operation with full output voltage and amps, and thats much more important for me than 5% more loss.
I cannot take my own unit with me on airplanes, i’ ll get problems with security, so i still need a factory-build.

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#22

I’m pretty sure @AnkerOfficial was just joking about the font.

#23

I see that you changed your name from mmengel… I was getting used to that! :frowning:

#24

huh? what do you mean?

#25

Ok, but why was my post not unflagged? The only reason mentioned was the fonts?

#26

I only registered a few days ago. I don`t know mmengel.

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#27

Oh sorry I thought you made that post up there a few days ago.

#28

i finally made it to lvl 6!

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#29

Congratulations!

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#30

what lvl r u

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#31

I’m on level 10!

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#32

I would use a pass through feature regularly. Primarily I use these batteries while backpacking and my time in towns with access to power is somewhat limited and I don’t usually have access to ‘extra’ stuff like additional USB converters etc to charge my electronics and my brick simultaneously… provided, of course, that if was faster overall to pass through charge multiple devices at a lower rate than charging them successively at higher rate… :joy:

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#33

Your described problem, I am very familiar with, of brief access to mains power and wanting to ingest at maximum possible speed.

Buy one of these kits, based on your needs.

Tiny version: Good for low power needs, like ad-hoc phone.

  • Powercore Fusion 5000. One single product recharges your phone and itself. Limitation is its not high wattage, but it is compact.

Small version: Good for a few days between having an overnight recharge option.

  • Powerport2. Recharge the Powercore 1000 below and something else at the same time.
  • Powercore 10000. Advantage is dense energy for small to carry, but it only 2A input so ingests at half the speed of the Medium and Large below.

Medium version: Good for a few days where you need to make best use of a few hours, or where you need to go many days and then an overnight recharge.

  • Powerport 2. Outputs two 2.4A.
  • Either:
  • Powercore II 20000. Input two 2A. So this takes 4A input from the above.
    Or
  • Two Powercore 10000, combined is two 2A input, advantage is its two separate Powercore to allow for Powercore failure.

Large version: Good for even longer off-grid or where you need maximum ingest in a few hours.

  • Powerport 4. Outputs 8A across 4 ports, a max per port of 2.4A
  • Either
    Powercore 26800. Input two 2A. So this takes 4A of the above 8A with two ports left over to also recharge your other devices at the same time.
    OR
    Three Powercore 10000, taking 6A total from the 8A available, one port left over.
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#34

I had to get a Ravpower battery pack to use with my Amazon Echo Dot. Pass-thru power allows me to unplug the Echo from the wall and move it to another room without have a loss of power and a subsequent reboot. In effect, it’s a 5v UPS. There are Echo-specific power packs, but they cost 2-3 times more than a 10,000 mAh generic like Anker or RavPower.

#35

I miss pass through. I see the removal of pass through as a step backwards.

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#36

Is the pass through done right? Right now the best pass through device from anker is powercore fusion 5000, which the internal battery is not charged until all other devices are charged. This prove that it is not possible to have pass through doen right in previous model.

#37

yes I really miss it and regret to buy Anker when my cheap batteries all has this possibility…

#38

Clearly this is the only truth and any other excuse is just stupid, they will bring back the function after they understand…