So I was at Home DeePoo this afternoon......Rayovac Mini-Charger updates........

scopin’ out the recently mentioned great led deals for the holidays when I came across this little ditty that is one of those “Special Buys” in
those cardboard stands they like to sprinkle around the place with Husky Tools and other sundry gee-gaws. Anyhow, I was gettin’ tired of my HTC Inspire cell running out of juice all the time on me so I bought it for $9.88. What the heck.

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-203459975/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=–1&keyword=Rayovac&storeId=10051

When I got home and gave it a quick recharge on the computer’s USB, well I’ll be dam*ed but the little runt actually worked. Recharged up fast too. But it was prolly pretty close to full-charge from the factory I figure. I told the cashier,….I’ll prolly be back to return this.

Charged up my HTC cell in about 5 minutes which was enough for some useful added talk-time. So I don’t know. I was skeptical but now I’m cautiously semi-skeptical. I mean this thing weighs practically nothing so ya kinda go………How can this possibly work well?

Anywho, when I went to recharge it back up again, it only took about 15 minutes till the green-good-to-go led came back on. Wow. Not bad for such a little runty thing outta of a USB. I’ll give it 2 weeks of more thrashing around to see if it doesn’t grenade on me. Btw, the ones at Home DeePoo were thankfully only in black. I try to avoid buying white plastic stuff ’cause they look like sh*t after 3 days.

I think the Italian-sounding guy sez he paid like $13 for one. :open_mouth: :smiley: We’re smarter shoppers here at BLF. We wait a whole year to save $3.00. H)

And btw, I walked outta Home DeePoo without any of those holiday torchie specials folks are tellin’ me to look for, ya know the two-pack 3-AAA dealies, the MagLite leddies at 1/2 off, etc. I stood there pondering the fact that I already had 62 of those Costco 200-lumen 3-AAA XPG Techlites on hand so that kinda sobered me up a tidge that maybe these twin-pak 3-AAA torchies were prolly overkill. :open_mouth:

There will be deals, Friday after Thanksgiving

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Wow, that’s pretty nifty. Thanks for the heads up. I wish it had a mini-USB connector in addition to the micro-USB connector, though.

as an adapter?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-5pin-USB-Male-Plug-To-Micro-5pin-Female-USB-Adapter-Connector-5pcs-/181022077377?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item2a25c1b1c1

Btw, I put the Rayovac in my front cargo shorts pocket and I basically don’t even know it’s there. The perfect set-up would be to find a nice little pouch to hold it and any adapters to cover for instance, my wife’s Blackberry Mini-USB port. Her company still makes her use that ancient technology. :bigsmile:

I wonder what capacity the device has in mA? I hope it keeps working for you.

1.5Wh = 400mAh x 3.7V.

Rated input: 5V/250mA

Rated output: 5V/500mA

Thanks, been looking for something like this.

I use an Ipower case for the iPhone and a Mophie for iPod touch. Only use the laptop ~ once/week.

My HTC Inspire which has a 1200 mAh battery discharged to about 10% remaining power. Plugged in the Rayovac and let her rip. I am pleased to announce that the Rayovac after 32 minutes of charging the HTC brought it back to about 40% capacity. Basically I have added almost 2 hours talk-time. The Rayovac got a little warm during the process, which according to Rayovac is normal. When it finished charging it shut off automatically. Obviously its lithium has a functioning protection circuitry.

IMO, so far this is quite impressive in my book for such a small, light, and cheap gizmo. For an emergency back-up that you can dangle off your keychain it’s quite the deal. And best of all, it works. :open_mouth:

I’ll be doing this often to see how it performs as days go by and I’ll keep this updated. I’m prolly gonna buy at least a couple more for the wife and kids before they jack them up back up to $12.88 after the holidays. You prolly know my buying habits by now when I really like something. :wink: