Your "mom"?

I had one, but sent it back after the Black Friday deal. It wasn't even close to the advertised 22400mAh. It could charge just a little bit more than my wife's Anker 13000mAh, which is ridiculous. We had a replacement, which was the same.

Check the 1 star reviews on Amazon. Pretty much full of people with the same experiences. Sadly most people won't know the output is a lot lower than expected, as long as it works. Sure, it'll charge your device a few times, but the output they claim just isn't true.

Just under a pound in fact, Perfect for throwing in a laptop bag and carting around :smiley: OR taking camping!

I do wonder how many people have returned these saying it doesn't supply the correct current and haven't thought about the crappy cheapo micro usb cable they are using. Most common cables can only handle about 1A or even less, so charging will take longer than you think. Buy a decent high current cable and voila, fast charging. I have V1 of this ECT battery and it has been great. I get roughly 8 full LG G4 charges out of it. I use the mobile in the car as a sat nav and if the cable cannot supply more than 2A then even plugged into the car with a 2.4A adaptor it will run it flat in a few hours. Change the cable for a quality one and it will run Waze with display on and even charge it. I have done this as a passenger in a friends car with my ECT battery pack and runs phone with Waze running and still charges the phone.
Also all new battery packs take a few charge/discharges to obtain maximum capacity. No good charging it once and the saying it only charged my phone 2 times.

Bottom line is, get a decent fast charge usb cable and it will be fine.

How fast do they actually charge though? Been stung a few times in the past where charging a phone/tablet took forever so just binned it.

My Acer tablet, when I connect the tester to Acer transformer I got 1.8 - 2.0a.

What did you use as the load?

It may be that the load isn't trying to draw any more than 1 amp.

Got tester, puts out 1a through any port. Probably keep it but not as described.

This thing is freaking massive.
I've got laptop batteries smaller than.
This is not really portable, maybe something to throw in a suitcase, I guess.

Is the price stlll valid? its showing 27.99 now.

Have already ordered one. Charging tablet atm, charging but quite slow.

You might want to try a real proper tester :smiley: You can buy them on bangood for about 2.50 or so :smiley:

Ampere app.

Received mine, not showing much output through any port. Any one else tried?

Price expired, price gone up
Price: £27.99 & FREE Delivery in the UK.

Quick Charge 2.0 10000mAh lightning deal.....

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/starts-11am-aukey-quick-charge-2-0-10000mah-portable-external-battery-fast-charger-2375594

I think these are great, mrs had one, and got one for me one for christmas

came today Love it op
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Bought two of these for Christmas. One of them refuses to charge regularly. Sticks in one flashing light forever and doesn't seem to go anywhere. The other is great.

Bought one myself. Great deal I think!

Got a bit of extra discount (12%) via flubit, just ordered 2 units for £22.80 delivered, Many Thanks o/p

Yes, but as you can see from most Amazon reviews. If it works = 5* review, which skews it a lot.

Very few reviews have technical details. Many of the 1 star reviews have checked the capacity and have found that it doesn't match what expected.

Yup, cos here in Stafford its definitely Mum and we'd think you were weird :stuck_out_tongue:

I had one, but sent it back after the Black Friday deal. It wasn't even close to the advertised 22400mAh. It could charge just a little bit more than my wife's Anker 13000mAh, which is ridiculous. We had a replacement, which was the same.

Check the 1 star reviews on Amazon. Pretty much full of people with the same experiences. Sadly most people won't know the output is a lot lower than expected, as long as it works. Sure, it'll charge your device a few times, but the output they claim just isn't true.

Just bought the Anker one (6000mAh) which was posted here few days ago..still boxed..not sure I will ever use it and now I am thinking of buying this one too...Damn HUKD

There is a pretty good test of this power bank on YouTube...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxNLTRl36HQ

How are the laws of thermodynamics affected by sand? :stuck_out_tongue:

Guessing you've not travelled the Midlands much.

Bought! Thanks!!!!!

Does anyone know if these are allowed on planes?

I have so many of these now. I connect them all in a line straight from a lamp post and I have free electricity !

lol - I've gone from Stourbridge to Burton to Leicestershire - maybe I've not gone far enough!

Excuse me, can I please borrow your "power bank"?

As I found out since leaving the shire, mom is used by people around Birmingham up to around Lichfield where I'm from. Rest of the country thinks we're weird for saying it!

Bought a second. You'd be mad not to, at this price. You can never have enough charge! Heat given, THANKS.

Fantastic deal. Heat added!

Says who?
I'm from the West Midlands, many people use the word 'Mom' here.

Mum = British.
Mom = American.

I'm confused - lol - mom y'know mother, parent? I'm from Stourbridge so not a million miles from Lichfield but thought mom was a universal thing?

Unfortunately this is typical marketing BS. The battery probably is 22400mha so they are not lying but that's on a cell of 3.7v (that's what it says on the label). This needs to be jumped up to 5v in a process which at best is 80% efficient or there is 20% loss or greater, this happens in all these devices. Then you have the charging circuit in the device you are charging, this will have losses too. Also the battery receiving the charge will warm up, that is further lost energy. Just to cap it off the 22400mha is based on being able to discharge the battery 100%, however doing so reduces the life of the battery so it may have a low volt cut off to protect the battery from being completely flattened. In reality with any of these portable 5v supplies you are lucky if about 60% of the power actually gets into the battery being charged with rest lost to inefficiencies.

To be honest, I've not counted exactly - I've seen somewhere that's what was claimed and I've gone ages without recharging it but I don't let my phone drain down fully that often so can't be exact! It does seem to last ages without needing to be recharged though.

KING means does it give out high enough voltage/current to quick charge. Answer is, no. Need I think it's 9V at 1.67A for fast charge. This won't support quick charge 2.0. My Aukey however does, search amazon for quick charge 2.0 and you should get some. A lot of companies use words like "Fast Charging" etc. but not Quickcharge 2.0

does this support Samsung fast charge?

Ty you op! My father will like this :smiley: he's 78 and rechargeable torch mad!... He also has a Nexus 7 gen 1, just for Codeword & Sudoku :smiley:. If I asked him to open a Browser, he just looks vacant and slides the tablet to me.

Heat added.. Mines been great too, paid £20 a year ago. I rarely do 0-100% but I've done 5%-80 ish, 3/4 times and been surprised there's just less than half left. Never measured it but I'm sure mines getting 2amps from the middle socket, everyone else knows this is the only one with 2a, right?

Simply this device lets me go abroad for a week without a charger (sony z5c) and still be confident about using satnav etc.

I do think you have to look after them a bit, keep it fully charged when not in use, don't use a full cycle unless you have to etc, not sure if the tech backs that up but it's certainly working for me.

Bit bigger than I expected but got on blast year and have been away for a weekend away and it charged both of us for 3 days very good I got a small one to slip in my pocket and this beast when needed. highly recommend. Fast charge compared to the others i have.

Got one, had it a year and it's excellent. Took it on our US road trip and was so handy

haha work in fradley so get the joke :smiley:

That's pretty good.
I opened my last one and it had the same cells, but I didn't do measurements like he did.

What's really interesting here is that there clearly seems to be some differences in what people are getting. There are too many people on Amazon that have seen a poor amount of charge from it, myself included. But there are people like this that clearly have evidence to show they have a good product.

I wonder if it's because of the no-name cells that it uses? Could easily be quality issues that people are seeing. That or they have cut corners since he posted his video in 2014, or have multiple suppliers...?

Thanks for posting.

Heat from me, Great price & Great battery.
Got one for chrimbo really pleased with it.

I got one of these a while ago.
Pros:
- Can charge mobiles and tables several times before needing to recharge
- Has a torch :smile:

Cons
- Big and heavy (but after all it's 22k mAh!).

I would have preferred to get something with 1/4 of the charge and a 1/4 of the size.

Bought. Chiaras min :smiley:

Not supporting Quick Charge 2.0, cold.

Can anyone pls recommend a cheap (ebay?) carry case for the EC Technology 2nd Gen Deluxe 22400mAh?

Just ordered one, thanks. If it's half as good as my Anker 16000mAh one, I will be very happy.

I bought one of these for the holiday last year. Its brilliant but be aware its like a brick so you'll have to carry it in a bag. Heat added

Thats the one I have. I've never tested it as such, but I take it away for a week and it still has power when I come home so thats probably 3 full charges of a sony Z1 compact plus use with my USB light at night.

Just ordered this exact one a week ago for £20! Ah well.
As others have said, this thing is heavy but it is very useful, I leave it to charve overnight and it charges up my phone really quickly. I last charged it 5 days ago and has charged my phone from ~10% to 100% in about an hour 5 times.

Purchased last time around.

Great price, product.

Heat!!!

Have some Heat!!! :smiley:
I paid nearly £30 for mine and it is brilliant. I have charged a Lumia 930 from flat to full 4 times and still had plenty charge left. It charged just as quick as if it was plugged into the mains.

That's the older model of the same item :smiley:

Ordered and Heated!

There is a review on YouTube of a very similar pack ,it has 2 Usb outputs instead of 3 but is the same manufacturer and claimed capacity, the reviewer seems to know what he is talking about and it's claimed output isn't far from the truth.
I am normally very sceptical myself..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P97rHkZpb9o

The 18,600mAh will be at 3.7V so at 5V this will equate to around 13,000mAh

The quoted 22400mAh is at the internal battery voltage of 3.7V so will be less at 5V...the capacity of this pack is 82Wh so at 5V the capacity will be 16400mAh assuming 100% efficiency of the DC-DC converter (which they aren't)

Ordered one before christmas, amazing deal!

I have the old version of this specifically for camping, and a much smaller and lighter day to day one. Oh and a slightly larger one, and another slightly bigger than that, and then there is that one I've not used yet, and the anker zolo that arrived yesterday and.......

I have a battery fetish it appears!

If I charge this up fully, how long does it hold its capacity for?

​Check with Ampere app if on Android. perhaps mine was a dud

I think one of these will charge up fine on my works desk! Heat added!

Theres no way i'm getting as low as 1A from mine. I can use my phone heavily and charge it in 1 hour 35.

Already have two, must not buy another!!!

My old one output 2.1amps (yeah it's been comandeered!!!). I'm waiting for the new one to arrive and I'll see what that outputs.

True :smiley:

Nice! 22400mAh is for at least 7 charges for my phone! Totally woth it. Bought

I do wonder how many people have returned these saying it doesn't supply the correct current and haven't thought about the crappy cheapo micro usb cable they are using. Most common cables can only handle about 1A or even less, so charging will take longer than you think. Buy a decent high current cable and voila, fast charging. I have V1 of this ECT battery and it has been great. I get roughly 8 full LG G4 charges out of it. I use the mobile in the car as a sat nav and if the cable cannot supply more than 2A then even plugged into the car with a 2.4A adaptor it will run it flat in a few hours. Change the cable for a quality one and it will run Waze with display on and even charge it. I have done this as a passenger in a friends car with my ECT battery pack and runs phone with Waze running and still charges the phone.
Also all new battery packs take a few charge/discharges to obtain maximum capacity. No good charging it once and the saying it only charged my phone 2 times.

Bottom line is, get a decent fast charge usb cable and it will be fine.

Ordered thanks :smiley:

wouldn't the battery of the unit drain on standby, i would of thought thats is what will cause different charging quantities

Takes ages to charges up, but then they're awesome. Get one and stop messing about.

22,400mah lol. No chance. Not for that sort of money. The Chinese love to lie about battery capacities. Generally they're 2/3rds of what they really are. You are better off buying an enclosure and installing your own batteries, Panasonics are spot on for this type of thing and really are the capacity they claim to be. 6 x 3,100mah Pannys would give you 18,600 mah. Have a look over on Fasttech, they have no end of enclosures.

Nice deal op

Heat, missed last one, so very happy thanks OP.

bought one last year charged my sony z3 from 5% to full 4 times when i tested it , 5th time got it up to 80% charge. good price

bought it at 13.99 before xmas, good kit, but it doesn't charge my ASUS Transformer which i was gutted about. Anker ones do though I believe.

yeah, this device will fast charge my HTC and Samsung - but as others have said, it certainly doesnt have 20000 MAH, i might get 3/4 charges out of it,so between 10-12000 i think - takes a while to charge up too

Bought one for Glastonbury!

Thought i bought this as a bargain at £20! well worth it, charges my htc m8 a good 3-5 times before dying.

Resisting buying another its such a good deal.

this or buy another anker or xiaomi?

Ideal for charging my 2 hoverboards and my free EE powerbank whilst I am at work.

Brilliant for festivals and insanely good value at this price.

decent, picked one up

No device will charge the exact multiplication of its ampage size, blame the laws of thermodynamics not manufacturers!

Intriguing. In terms of external appearance, this looks identical to the Xiaomi battery pack I picked up recently off a deal here. Not sure if both are re-branding a generic Chinese product??

I originally got one of these at almost double this price - I've actually just had to return it as the centre USB stopped putting out any charge but I'd still heartily recommend them as very solid units. I know several other family and friends who've grabbed this model too, when it was on sale before xmas and mine is the only one that failed in some way.

Just getting the slightly smaller Anker equivalent to try out as a replacement... however had I known the price of this was going to drop so low I'd have grabbed this instead!

Doesn't output 2A like promised

Bought this last time it came on the deal on Amazon. Absolutely a must have. Is as heavy as a brick and works like one too. Very solid & long lasting.

Either american or from near Lichfield like me

These are brilliant, I've got 2. Can charge your phone up to 4 times from one charge. Charges fast too, not like some of the portable chargers. I use mine around the house when I want to charge my phone but can't bear it being more than 3 feet away from me when I'm on the sofa ha!

my mom got one of these at Christmas, it was heavier than expected so not ideal for my mom to carry around in her handbag - bonus for me though as she took my smaller anker one and I got this, as said above it's ideal in my laptop bag and will be coming camping with us in the summer!

be warned - these are very heavy / big and not portable on a day to day basis.

Bought this when on amazon lightning deal. Now it's even cheaper! Use mine a lot. Had to buy another haha :smile:

This is going to burn very quickly, nice spot OP

These are really great, I use mine all the time

I used one of these for when I went to Iceland in December. I used it to charge my phone while I was using it as a GPS around the country. Worked perfectly and lasted the whole week.

I'm buying these by the dozen it seems !

ordered thanks should.keep my sons tablet and phone charged on our travels :smiley:

Very good price. Thanks OP

looks good ..thanks

Bought one when it was £19.99 great stuff
Bought two more for my kids

nice bought another