I still find it strange that there is absolutely no mention of IQ 2.0 in the listing…
Buy the PowerCore II 10000 NOW
Right. The odd thing is its so big given its 10000mah and 1 port. If it were smaller or had 2 ports I’d buy it. I currently travel with the 10000 and 5000 Slim to get 2 ports and a degree of redundancy. Bear in mind 2 Powercore will charge twice as fast as each is getting 2A.
I don’t own any QC, and QC is physically larger and higher cost so why would i ever buy anything QC from Anker. I do own a OnePlus3T which has a proprietary “DASH” charger which is physically huge so I travel usually just with the common denominator of 2A 5V 10W like from Anker, Aukey, etc.
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Don’t you think it’s weird that the PowerCore II 10000 has only one port, yet the Fusion 5000 has 2?!
No not weird. The II 10000 is QC and it is delivering all of its power to 1 port. The Fusion is only a 15W output when off battery, the II 10000 is (I guess, I don’t own to meter) 18W?
I’m wanting just a 2.4A output dual (4.8A total) socket small Powercore. Right now they don’t make one, they have the bigger 10400 but when I measure it I’m better off pairing say a Mini+ and say 10000 to get 2 ports. Two batteries are going to be more reliable than one battery as they are redundant and even though the Min+ is only 1A input the two batteries combined ingest at 3A which is superior to the 10400.
What is weird is they haven’t released a compact Li Poly dual-socket 10000mah item. It should be trivial to Anker. Also given a Slim 5000 can input 2A a new 10000 should be able to be dual 2A input. It should be physically smaller than 2 5000 as shared electronics shared packaging.
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So you want a 10000 that has dual inputs and outputs, right?
Well to be fully clear, I see if Anker can make a 5000mah 10W input 10W output portable charger, they made in a flat shape in the Slim 5000 and in the cylindrical 5000, then they should be able to make a 10000mah 20W input 20W output portable charger.
They then can take the 10W input in a few different flavors. One flavour could be dual 2A input, another could be say a single USB-C input. One flavor of output could be dual 2A output, another could be one USB-C output.
What Anker chose to do is a bias to QC in the Powercore II 10000. That ignores the entire Apple owner community and most Android users. QC is a 18W upper standard, so other similar Wattage in other than QC should be next.
I meter and feel the temperature of different portable chargers, I do find the cylindrical shape tallies with laws of physics you’d expect that a cylinder is inherently hotter (cylinder = smaller surface area per unit volume) than a flatter shape. So given that I expect something the shape of the Powercore II 10000 can be made in other flavors.
I meter devices through their charge cycle. For about half their charging time they take less than the maximum. Hence in a single-port portable charger, half the time it is not working at its full capability. To get more out of the portable charger, a dual socket 2A output will on average not be all ports taking the max. Hence they should be able to offer say 20W budget total, each port rated upto say 3A then if I plug in say a 3A tablet and a 1.3A phone, then they’d not be at full charge initially but the phone would drop its ingest at 85% and then the tablet gets full 3A. Also if you use a device, even if you just touch the screen, then the metered ingest drops as the device responds to thermal pressure. So, again, if you plug in a portable charger to a device you are using, there is opportunity to charge other devices which are not being used on the other port(s).
i also see the Li Poly products seem (anecdotally) out of stock more easily, that is telling that Anker has a supply probiem with Li Poly. That is causing prioritization of product releases. I hope the bias to QC is addressed soon.
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You were right. Out of stock again.
One of Anker’s power banks outputs QC3 but only inputs QC 2, don’t recall which one.
Thar would make sense as recharge has to be slower than discharge and I expect there is a licensing cost which drops for older.