Soshine E3S-QC
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fmc1
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I have two of them. As a charger it's almost unusable because of how slow it charges. 5V at 2A is just not enough power for a 4 slot LiIon charger. As a power bank it's fine. Espically if you have a lot of older 18650 laptop pulls lying around like I do. I don't think I would have bought them if I had to actually buy batteries for them. Flat tops or button tops will fit, but protected batteries are too long.
Frank
Frank
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Damn, I knew it's too good to be true
What is the max battery length you can fit? I was a bit concerned about using non-protected batteries in this power bank but if you say it's reliable I trust you.
Have you tried charging anything on a different voltage than 5V (e.g. QC3-compatible phones)?
fmc1
Enlightened
I would say between 68 and 69mm would be the max length. It has two output ports one is 5V at 2A the other is 5V at 1A and that's it no QC or adjustable output voltage. The display shows 4 battery indicators with 4 power level indicator lines for each battery. So it's very easy to see individual battery levels.
To me it fills a very small market. Let's say you have 24 NCR18650A's that are at 3000mAh capacity. That's 72000mAh at 3.7 volts. That's over 53000mAh at 5v. You would need a whole lot of self-contained power banks to give you that much power and would be way more expensive assuming you could repurpose the batteries like I did.
Basically my conclusion is if you have a whole lot of old or recycled 18650's and a good way to charge them. Then this is a good power bank option.
Frank
To me it fills a very small market. Let's say you have 24 NCR18650A's that are at 3000mAh capacity. That's 72000mAh at 3.7 volts. That's over 53000mAh at 5v. You would need a whole lot of self-contained power banks to give you that much power and would be way more expensive assuming you could repurpose the batteries like I did.
Basically my conclusion is if you have a whole lot of old or recycled 18650's and a good way to charge them. Then this is a good power bank option.
Frank
Then you must be having the old E3S model:
http://www.soshine.com.cn/a674.aspx
The new one claims to support QC3:
http://www.soshine.com.cn/a709.aspx
I don't have old or recycled batteries but I have at least 6-7 which are not used more than once a year so it's better to bring them to life
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