Educate me on Multi-USB Chargers please

Just seen Amazon has pulled RavPower, after Aukey all looking a bit dubious.

If it is over incentivised reviews they are gonna have to pull pretty much everything - I've rarely received a product lately which didn't do it.
 
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thenewoc said:
But unless you know of a GB alternative then sometimes it's necessary to source an alternative and where that's necessary I'd rather have a known brand rather than something that could be a fire hazard.
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I would be absolutely staggered if there was a single USB charger manufactured in the UK.

I've used Anker over the years and they've been solid, reliable, well made. Get my bike too.

Belkin is overpriced, without the quality the quality to match the price tag imo.
 
dLockers said:
You aren't boycotting then are you? How daft.
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Yes because not only have I not bought a USB charger since the start of the pandemic, I've also looked at alternatives when I've needed other things. Some things are only made in China so there is currently not always a choice but where I can divert my spending I do. I didn't close UK businesses, people buying cheap tat from China did.
 
thenewoc said:
Yes because not only have I not bought a USB charger since the start of the pandemic, I've also looked at alternatives when I've needed other things. Some things are only made in China so there is currently not always a choice but where I can divert my spending I do. I didn't close UK businesses, people buying cheap tat from China did.
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You are promoting 'buy British', not boycotting.
 
mid_gen said:
I would be absolutely staggered if there was a single USB charger manufactured in the UK.

I've used Anker over the years and they've been solid, reliable, well made. Get my bike too.

Belkin is overpriced, without the quality the quality to match the price tag imo.
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I'd be very surprised too since I was very surprised when looking at something as simple as travel mugs, every well known brand I came across was made in China.
 
thenewoc said:
I'd be very surprised too since I was very surprised when looking at something as simple as travel mugs, every well known brand I came across was made in China.
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Strange that porcelain cups are made in a China.

Maybe they should rename them so as not to confuse people.

Chinaware might be a good name. Could even shorten it a bit.
 
dLockers said:
You are promoting 'buy British', not boycotting.
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Both, if you can buy British then great, if not which is sadly the case with some things such as electronics then I look for other alternatives, Japanese, Taiwan, Malaysia but also if those brands have UK offices so at least some presence here.
 
VincentHanna said:
Strange that porcelain cups are made in a China.

Maybe they should rename them so as not to confuse people.

Chinaware might be a good name. Could even shorten it a bit.
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They weren't porcelain, they were travel mugs like thermos etc. The same is probably true for porcelain too though since many of our pottery businesses don't exist either.
 
thenewoc said:
They weren't porcelain, they were travel mugs like thermos etc. The same is probably true for porcelain too though since many of our pottery businesses don't exist either.
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Are you a daily mail reader? It feels like you are.

The potteries in Stoke are booming. Nowhere near where they were, but booming nonetheless.
 
BowdonUK said:
I've never heard of these chargers before.

I remember the days when ya just plugged in the USB cable and it charged.
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Back then 5v 1.2A is all that was needed to charge but that was a slow affair even though phone batteries were what 1500mAh max? Nowadays we have up to 200Watts being pumped into phones with 4000mAh+ batteries (latest announcement from Xiaomi) which charges to full in 8 minutes with the general slew of phones charging at around the 45W mark in up to an hour for fast charging. I only have an S20 but that charges at 25W wired and a bit over 15W wireless. Ironically Samsung call 25W "Super Fast"... :rolleyes:

Once solid state batteries are the norm though we will see batteries that charge in less time than it takes to make a cup of tea. In those times the whole charger arena will change dramatically too since you won't need to constantly keep phones plugged in overnight or worry about fast charging methods slowly killing cells degrading battery life over periods of time.
 
Rroff said:
Just seen Amazon has pulled RavPower, after Aukey all looking a bit dubious.

If it is over incentivised reviews they are gonna have to pull pretty much everything - I've rarely received a product lately which didn't do it.
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My Rav power pd powerbank has been flawless for years.
And I regularly rag it.
It. Kicks out 30w over PD and works well with my laptop. It's been awesome




And yes. Gan chargers are nice. My 100w is GaN
 
dLockers said:
Yeah I spotted that a few posts up. I have two RavPower devices; 1 that was replaced due to premature failure. Never had an issue but I am questioning that, now!


https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/16/22536976/amazon-ravpower-battery-charger-removed-amazon
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Been a few fakes I think - I bought 3-4 of the same RavPower USB charger from Amazon as the seller and have worked fine for me so far but last time I bought was around 30% people rating them 1 star for premature failure, often due to the case separating making them dangerous, with the pictures some posting having several differences to the ones I had.

413x said:
My Rav power pd powerbank has been flawless for years.
And I regularly rag it.
It. Kicks out 30w over PD and works well with my laptop. It's been awesome




And yes. Gan chargers are nice. My 100w is GaN
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Yeah RavPower has been decent for me but the way some brands are getting kicked off Amazon makes me think there is more to the story - maybe Amazon has to make a stand I dunno but there are other brands more high profile who've been doing the stuff RavPower, etc. have been accused of for much longer and are still on Amazon.
 
Rroff said:
Been a few fakes I think - I bought 3-4 of the same RavPower USB charger from Amazon as the seller and have worked fine for me so far but last time I bought was around 30% people rating them 1 star for premature failure, often due to the case separating making them dangerous, with the pictures some posting having several differences to the ones I had.



Yeah RavPower has been decent for me but the way some brands are getting kicked off Amazon makes me think there is more to the story - maybe Amazon has to make a stand I dunno but there are other brands more high profile who've been doing the stuff RavPower, etc. have been accused of for much longer and are still on Amazon.
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Things like this seem to be high fake territory. Had a charger fail on me (not Rav). When I looked on amazon it had been taken off.

Only buy psu type devices from the official Source now. A bad psu can obviously take out more than the device. Often these are plugged into multi £k laptops
 
mrk said:
Back then 5v 1.2A is all that was needed to charge but that was a slow affair even though phone batteries were what 1500mAh max? Nowadays we have up to 200Watts being pumped into phones with 4000mAh+ batteries (latest announcement from Xiaomi) which charges to full in 8 minutes with the general slew of phones charging at around the 45W mark in up to an hour for fast charging. I only have an S20 but that charges at 25W wired and a bit over 15W wireless. Ironically Samsung call 25W "Super Fast"... :rolleyes:

Once solid state batteries are the norm though we will see batteries that charge in less time than it takes to make a cup of tea. In those times the whole charger arena will change dramatically too since you won't need to constantly keep phones plugged in overnight or worry about fast charging methods slowly killing cells degrading battery life over periods of time.
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Wow, thanks for the knowledge. I never realised all these updates.

I'll have to do some looking around for these chargers.

Most of the time I just plug my phone in to the computer. Though it takes quite a while to charge up an old phone.
 
I bought a ravpower 11kmah a long time ago when it was on a daily offer, mainly just used it as a wired charger still. Have two more mains powered chargers too.

The ravpower works well as a battery pack, but I never remembered or bothered to charge and take it with me.
 
For anybody interested I got this for £19..99 on Prime Day, it does what it says on the tin - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QPVSVCW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Been realizing I need another of those on my desk straight to the mains because my PC's USB hub doesn't stay powered on while the PC is switched off.

Think I might have missed it on prime day, will have a look for any current deals.

No more prime day but they usually have daily deals, if not look for the cheapest one.
 
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