Amazon Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

Snagged one. Many Thanks ā€¦ :wink:

Vipon coupon code: 9DLB-6PT7EF-RRX6AE

I stand corrected. The light has a 3x18650 wrapped pack in it. It is indeed 6000mah 3.7v.

You opened yours up? :slight_smile:

Iā€™m going to run a discharge capacity test when I get mine.

Waitā€¦ what?

The vipon code for the moobibear(!) is 11.27, but itā€™s listed on amazon at 10.99, straight-up.

Whatā€™m I missing, and how youse get ā€™em for 5-6bux?

Charmast uberpowerbank:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SW6M1PX

vipon code brings it down to 20, 5% coupon knocks it down a bit more. Got mine for <20bux out the door.

Ah, here we areā€¦

https://www.vipon.com/product/6635984-Portable-Charger-Power-Charmast-High-Capacity-amazon-coupons

Go crazyā€¦

Ignore the displayed pricing and apply Vipon code anyway. :slight_smile:

Of course I opened it. It had screws. Isnt that what you are supposed to do with something you just purchase? Open it up and see whats inside/how it works? Thats how I grew up at least. :slight_smile:

Ran out for the day, so I gots ta wait.

Right on. :+1:

BTW, mine was completely dead when it arrived. The light wouldnā€™t turn on. Charging it now. It was initially only pulling about 0.1A from my USB wall plug, but after a while it went up to 1A.

Same here.

Iā€™ve seen that with a lot of lithium batteries from overseas. It charged fine.

FYI, when pulling 0.5A current from the USB port, I got 13,650 mWh out of it. This translates to 3,689 mAh capacity @ 3.7V. Alas, even though the port would no longer supply current at this point, the light would still turn on.

I wanted to initially measure capacity using 1A current, but the USB canā€™t deliver it reliably. If you try to go higher than about 0.9A, voltage starts dropping notably. Anyway, not a big deal. I didnā€™t really buy it for the power bank function.

As a portable work light, it works fine, other than the blue/red strobe/disco mode. Wonder if Police would take an issue with it if they saw you running it on the side of the road at night.

Welp, I grabbed one up in muh cart. Shud be kinda overkill with all da juice, but price and reviews look good. Thanks! :+1:

Amazingly, and I mean amazingly, mine already arrived today. Damn! :laughing:

No typische Amazon hijinx of sitting on it for 2wks to see if you order anything else that can be bundled into the same box, nothing.

Quite nice. Big donk, thatā€™s for sure, but to power a small city like it can, itā€™s fine.

Wasnā€™t sure which colors were covered by the code (white/black/somethingelse), but it came up with white, so thatā€™s what I ordered. Sharp-looking. Topping off my phone as Iā€™m typing this. (Came almost fully charged.)

Charging my PB2S off the ā€™puter, will top off the Charmast when itā€™s done (ā€“3- 2 more).

Geezeā€¦ talk about fast shipping! They must have a stash of em in NYC with delivery drones loitering above your home. Thanks for the first impressions. I couldnā€™t find any technical reviews or tear-downs online, but they seem to be holding up fine for most of those who own them. I tried to grab a black one but the coupon wouldnā€™t apply, so white it is.

Can you please check to see if it has pass-through charging?

Hmm, looked, and Delaware, but close enough.

I tried looking at the ā€œmanualā€ but my electron microscope is in the shop. Good God, why do they have to use microprint? Itā€™s like a few postage-stamps stuck together at the edgesā€¦ like, seriously??

Only thing I can do is try it, but I pretty much charged up everything that charges.

Eh, back in a little whileā€¦

Okay, it seems to do it.

Connected it to my ā€™puter, and the blinkylights seem to indicate that it started charging. Plugged in my buglamp that doesnā€™t fry anything but the bugs use as a tanning-bed (some gnatlike things seemed to get tangled up in there and died of starvation or something), and that lit up that it was charging, too.

So, Iā€™d give it a qualified yes.

:smiley: Thanks for checkā€™n it out. Well alright then! Its a jack-of-all-trades. At least for the ones Id be concerned with. Now if it can just last a few years before becoming a toxic addition to the landfill, itā€™ll earn its keep!

Nah, give it to those Ukrainian guys. Theyā€™ll drive a spike through it or something, watch it fizz and smoke then burst into flames.

A good time will be had by all.

ā€”

Ah, here we goā€¦

It looks like they hyperventilated on the toxic fumes before they even got started!

Wellp, a good pair of shorts and some swim-goggles, thatā€™s all the protective equipment you need.