If you guys could have one thing on Anker for free what would it be?

#41

It would be the PowerCore+ 20100 USB-C because it is a amazing battery pack!

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#42

The premium speacker

#43

I don’t think solar panels are bad particularly it is just an expectation gap.

So it is a bit like batteries, in that you hear say 5000mah and you have say a 2500mah phone and so you think it will do 2 full recharges, but you not factored the voltage and if you do that you get 2/3rds what you thought you’d get, made worse by bad cables, bad connections, etc. This is tracing back to not knowing Volts, Amps, Watts, Watthours, etc.

It’s the same with solar. You often see quoted the Watts as quoted of the VoltsxAmps of the physical solar panels inside the product but then it goes through electronics to make a USB output and its lost some power already, then if not strong sunshine or any obstructions or not aligned with the sun, or if it gets hot (duh, sunshine!) then these all lower actual output.

So if you were to take a claim with a large handful of salt, and lower your expectations then you may be making a fairer balanced view.

I tend to use a claim of 21W (which you’d think is 5V USB so 3A) to be more like 1A in more average sunny conditions and work forwards from that.

Then it is reduced further by battery-charging battery. If you were to connect the solar to say a phone, then if you were to use the phone at the time, often the thermal throttling in the phone limits its recharging speed, often you’d be better to just plug phone into solar panel and forget it til you need to move (the actual most efficient method). Most people don’t know that and indeed when stop moving would begin using their mobile whilst connected to solar and so waste any >1A power they actually be getting from the panel. If instead they charged a battery (2A input) then all the Amps from sun is not wasted at that stage, but the solar-battery makes losses (recharging a Powercore) then when you use that battery to recharge a phone you lose there again (battery-cable-battery), so you’d get back into your phone about half what the solar panel was outputing.

The net effect is you will get a lot less in reality than a pure simple minded view of Watts.

There is a LOT to be gained from just having mains powered charged batteries as your primary source of power and only if you’re on long sunny trips (talking days away from power) then consider solar, and then consider leaving it at base camp with a big discharged Powercore attached to recharge whilst you head away from base and then recharge your gadgets off that Powercore, that is because the ratio of time (all day vs just stops) is usually greater than the ratio of loss (2x).

This is why base camp solar is often more practical.

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#44

What a mess of an explanation, Amps x Volts = Watts, the rest is about loss in conversion due to production of heat and output diminishing from what is listed as the rated output for the panels due to less than optimal light and the actual temperature of the panels. Resistance goes up with higher temperature, compounding and building up more heat. Most if not all “portable” solar devices made today have very a small rated output and that needs to be considered.

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#45

You are half right.

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#46

A portable car jump starter or their solar charger to see how well they hold up… never owned any of those types of devices before.

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#47

The roav!!!

#48

I’m in need of the Car Jump Starter this is handy in Alaska

#49

Powerhouse, it would save me $500 lol

#50

Powerhouse for sure!

#51

How about a powerhouse with a super cap bank that can actually put out 600CCA or better and not melt the cables that ship with it. Not kidding, I have burns from what is out there now, only not starting a 1.9L not even a single crank cycle. Ya know maybe 6awg at least’

#52

I would want ear buds

#53

Yeah about the jump starter…there seem to be better options on the market. Hopefully Anker can redesign the jump starter.

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#54

Anker PowerCore+ 26800

gotta have QC3 input, PowerIQ and VoltageBoost, with 2x QC3 chart ports

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#55

Long is great for wall charging whereas shorter is preferred to make the most use of the Anker PowerCore+ 26800 you’re sure to buy also

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#56

A quick charger 3.0 20000 mah power bank or power core 26,800 2 inputs becuase i have the damsung glaxy S7

#57

Something they don’t have yet. Bluetooth controllers for video games and such.

#58

I would have one of their portable battery chargers with about 20k worth of battery.

#59

If Anker and it’s other companies were to give away one of the products that they showed at CES what would you choose and why?

Hopefully Anker would see this and go through with this giveaway for the community.