Poundland "disposable" phone charger.
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2018
- Yet another of the single use chargers with a fully rechargeable cell inside. This one takes it one step further with a full power bank chip. It's literally just missing a resistor, capacitor, LED and charge connector to make it a fully rechargeable unit.
But on a plus note it can be used as a cheap and easily available source of 500mAh metal cased lithium cells if suitable cell protection is used. Or if you patch in the extra components you can recharge it from a USB power source.
This unit represents very poor value compared to even the most basic Poundland powerbank. The only advantage is its slim size.
If you really need a powerbank for a festival I'd strongly recommend a proper high capacity unit.
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It should be illegal to bring these kind of products to market. Stupid.
The free market won't help us fight pollution, stuff like this, lack of right to repair and planned obsolescence only worsens it.
Don't people understand powerbanks?
The thing that gets me is that they're more expensive than a chargable powerbank and it probably wouldn't cost much to add a switch to those and pre-charge them before shipping.
I agree, it is stupid, but we shouldn't be telling private companies what to do unless it's a direct threat to people's way of life.
@@iwiffitthitotonacc4673 The free market isn't the problem here. This product would not exist if people would not buy it.
Stop blaming companies for the waste that people throw away.
Those are a crime against Earth itself.
ok
I agree
You are right dude
Facts
@Evan Romeu especially the dirty ones. But throwing lithium in the garbage is much more bad environmentally in comparison to old fashioned coal/manganese cells and other rather cheap types.
Lithium is hard to find and costs lots of energy to process but also can be recycled if disposed correctly, and putting these batteries in landfills (many users of these one-way chargers might throw them into the regular waste) is kind of a joke.
Many gold processing plants collect the dust people have on their shoes to recycle the otherwisely lost gold. Since lithium is important and rare we really must handle it with the same sort of care.
They're selling lithium batteries without overcharge protection in a plastic case that can only be used once, then thrown in the trash. Wow.
I've just brought a joblot of 250+ disposable chargers like this but mine are instacharge brand rated a 1000mAh.
Who wouldn't want to throw away Lithium batteries? It's not like it's an incredibly reactive pollutant requiring specialized disposal procedures! 🙄
@@WowUrFcknHxC ikr
There are teams of people working out how we can trash the planet even faster than we already are.
I would never throw them in the trash, I just throw them directly into the ocean - like you do with car batteries.
sellers: "single use"
battery: DO NOT THROW AWAY
These things are so wasteful and pointless. They'll all end up in landfill without having really been useful.
Charging circuitry probably only costs a few cents.
Not only that but batteries should always be recycled anyway, not thrown into a landfill.
@@adaml.5355 It better to buy poundland 1200mph power bank one for one pound or there power geek 2200 power bank one for two pound or there 4000mah power bank one for five pound
@@vgamesx1 It better to buy poundland 1200mph power bank one for one pound or there power geek 2200 power bank one for two pound or there 4000mah power bank one for five pound
@@mrwahibtahri ok but what does that have to do with what I said? Batteries should be recycled regardless...
Whatever the reason for them, it's still a shocking waste of resources.
@@Zodliness It better to buy poundland 1200mph power bank one for one pound or there power geek 2200 power bank one for two pound or there 4000mah power bank one for five pound
@@Zodliness lol that were you are wrong not all bad I got the 4000mah power bank and micro USB and iPhone cable from poundland five month ago all good
Even Clive say poundland electronic are good
If you're lucky, you can find people just throwing them a way and salvage them. That's about the only good that can come from such an idiotic product, scavenging.
It's a sign of a sick society that we use the planet's limited resources to make a useless thing just to make probably a few pennies per unit. We're not going to last much longer like this.
I was even thinking maybe now they're using some alkaline battery chemistry so it really isn't rechargeable but no, i guess something like that could be made even cheaper something that takes 4 AAA batteries and provides usc-c/lightning enough for a few minutes. (or AAs..)
I'm disgusted this product exists
Just gonna add my voice to the crowd. When I first saw this product existed during my grocery shop, I just shook my head and sighed. Lithium isn't infinite and outright making Lithium products to throw them away is just disgusting and exemplifies the attitudes I find the absolute worst. Pure shortsighted selfishness.
These things need to be illegal already.
Typically stuff like this, you make it illegal to _sell_ it.
Give companies enough warning to get rid of their old stock, and then after the drop dead date anyone still selling it in a store gets fined. Easy. Lots of products have been outlawed that way.
@@Zodliness found the US libertarian nut
whats next, ban alkaline batteries?
@@GigsVT The production on single use battery's should be reduced and people should be pushed towards using NiMH more. There are devices that still require Alkaline due to the lower voltage of NiMH but most stuff that requires AA/AAA etc... will run just fine at 1.2V per cell.
@@GigsVT nope, I suggest a tax on single use batteries. Push the price up so outside of specific applications it's not worth using them. My watch battery lasts 5 years - is it really worth trying to squeeze a rechargable cell that would only last a month before needing charging into it? So don't ban, just make unpopular - double their price and things like this will vanish as the extra components will be cheaper than the tax.
Have to work harder to define a disposable electronic item to tax it, but could try - there might just be too many fiddles to get around it.
1200 mAh rechargeable power bank for 1£.
650 mAh one time use power bank for 2£.
Poundland, your logic befuddles me.
90msg90 they need to be 25p to be appealing
@@Xighor They need to come with a whole living tree to compensate the eco footprint.
It is odd, I think the logic is meant to be the 1200mAh bank probably isn't charged when you buy it, so you can't just grab this one at the checkout to save your dead phone to make a call while the 650mAh is pre charged to use, the price is based on that someone would buy one out of desperation. Horribly wasteful product though, also if you are near a pound land you probably are near a McDonalds which have phone chargers at the tables now, so just buy a £1 burger and get some life in your phone.
And a lead is needed with the powerbank, whereas this just plugs in.
So yeah, most folk would just plump for this. That said, there would probably be a similar amount of charge even in a partially charged powerbank.
It is a scandalous load of shite. What a disgrace. I'm no raving environmentalist, but this is just distastefully wasteful.
@@90msg90 nonononono they need to come with a forest!
I love how there is literally a label on the battery saying not to throw it in the bin. Inside of a "disposable" charger
Those cells are most likely recovered from old cell phones or dumb phones. Normally new battery of this size has capacity of 800mah. Yours has only ~500mah. China has found interesting way of sending back electronic waste to europe ;)
Atak Snajpera interesting thought.. the larger one definitely looks like alot of cells old phones have used
If they are refurbished cells it makes sense.
@@dustojnikhummer no it doesn't. Having a load of lithium in one place, it could be recycled. Sending them out to be dumped in bins all over the world makes no sense at all.
@@donrobertson4940 it makes sense for the ppl milking money out of recycling and then selling same shit back to where it came from. Most cheap china 18650 cells are from old laptop batteries.
@@donrobertson4940 it makes sense in china where most of the world sent its electronic waste, they dont have enough facilities to handle the amount so its not uncommon for it to be sold in bulk to be used in other industries to make money off it
I'm no greenie, but this single-use charger is pretty revolting. If it can't be recycled then it should be taxed to all hell.
There should be a deposit or core charge when it's purchased, then refund it when the carcass is turned in.
Not taxed, banned. Why not do a full power bank for £10 but when you return it you get £9 or £10 back? That way they'll make more money.
ahh revolting..i see what you did there
@@Okurka. Well considering the % amount of people who would actually take the time to return them, then I'd say yeah they would make money on them. It's the same with drink cans here in the US, the amount of people who return them in states that give people money back per can it's still fairly low.
@@happyguy5025 we should just tax companies for all the trash they produce so they come up with ways to not produce trash
Why, why, why? Massive waste aside, you can literally get a 10000mah bank for like 20 bucks that can fully charge a phone at least twice, and is *gasp* reusable.
I have a Tuzmi Pocket Juice 6000mAh power bank with a built in Micro usb cable, and US power prongs that fold down for charging I got at Walmart for about $8 USD, and it's been freaking fantastic for almost 3 years now.
Only twice? What phone do you have that wastes so much energy? That's enough to charge my two iPads even if fully discharged! Or my iPhone 5 times!
He said "at least twice".
Jonathan Green pro tip put two asterisks like ** this ** minus spaces so it ends up like **this** :)
@@GRBtutorials he maby has the huawei mate 20 x that phone had a 5000 mah battery
Omg... I can already imagine festivals banning the use of chargers and having vending machines that drop these 2 pound chargers.
For 5 pounds each.
Dont give em ideas
@@BenjaminPeterParker arrrrr but I am the power Pirate have here the rechargeable power Banks for the low low price of $1
Here is a nice alternative: A german telecommunications company which has stores in nearly every city borrows you a fully charged powerbank for 10 euros and you get the 10 euros back if you return in somewhere in the country
I love this idea!
Welcher Laden hat dieses Angebot?
@@stephanlustig5490 Die Telekom, kannst mal danach googlen, gibt wohl inzwischen ein paar Läden die keine powerbanks mehr haben
@@chaotus danke für die schnelle Antwort.
Indeed, the last festival I went to (End of the Road) you could get a power bank with a deposit for use at the festival (although there was still a price above the deposit, of course).
These are such a terrible product, so wasteful.
It better to buy poundland 1200mph power bank one for one pound or there power geek 2200 power bank one for two pound or there 4000mah power bank one for five pound
@@mrwahibtahri You can use these once, the other ones you can recharge.
Yeah, right?
Exactly, just imagine all the polymer plastics, copper, aluminum, lithium, battery acid potentially being sent to landfills because of products like this. When those substances break down and settle over time, they find there way into ground water and end up into Drinking water supply, irrigation systems used by farmers. In short, products like this will end up in your food and drinking water. In fact it already is! Something like this should be illegal. Not something silly like kinder surprise eggs.
are we really in 2018? i can't believe they make 500mAh lithium ion battery packs you throw away after 20 minutes of use.
true.
In 2018 I expect to have fucking public wireless charging or something, not this trash. Hell, make some public chargers that you can pay like $1 for.
@@Xilog they have those all over where i live they are charging stations with cubbys and theyre free
@@kadical7531 if only Dubai didn't spend our tax money on stupid shit
these are the kind of batteries you see in things like "portable speakers" made by no name companies. they probably figure that since they last a few hours on a 1 watt amplifier, they should be able to charge a phone pretty well.
I like how the package says it’s pocket sized. Know what else is pocket sized? A non wasteful normal power bank :|
And even then, the poundland 18650 cell powerbanks can be upgraded with higher capacity 18650s, and if one with 3500 mAh capacity can fit, then you can get a pretty modest amount of charge out of them.
But of course, those tiny ones are not comparable to the proper powerbanks, but those proper powerbanks would probably cost too much, so you'd have to look somewhere else for a proper capacity powerbank
Yeah for 20-30 USD you can afford high quality 10000mAh power bank that can fit in your pocket and also can be recharged a thousand times without losing much capacity (some of them also supports quick charging)
Funny thing is, on the battery there is the "do not dispose" sign printed on it..
"Great for festivals" where the 'new age' revellers frequently abandon their tents, sleeping bags and much else too. Search gootube for drone footage of the aftermath of Glastonbury for examples.
Mahla Propyzm why would you ever abandon a tent or sleeping bag?? They’re expensive, people are dumb.
@Zwenk Wiel Whelp, glad I'm a blue fox *Yip Yip*
@@soccerboy1447 that makes me want to get a truck and scavenge the places for free stuff. Rent a commercial washer and you're set to make some money.
@Zwenk Wiel all humans are useful for me is sustenance
Man we’re so desperate to drown in a mixture of melted glaciers & garbage like this.
China bruh
@@bilalsadiq1450 bruh do we? Or do their ambiental laws or lack thereof
Guilherme Ferreira yes we do, we are the reason there is demand for these items therefore we’re the reason there is supply of these items
Global warming from us is a myth, the earth periodically
goes through cooling and heating over hundreds of thousands of years.
were not gonna drown in 50 years stop listening to that screaming swedish girl or whoever she is
@@nitroxylictv XD you stupid
Shame they make and sell those instead of making a super cheap rechargeable pack out of it. Would be easy enough to do. On an unrelated note apparently scrolling a full screen video is now a thing.
Haha, yes! I also discovered this a few days ago.
Purely by accident, of course :D
What's this scrolling thing you speak of ?
Woah! Thanks! Much easier and faster, than toggling full screen mode.
Full-screen scrolling? That feature is not working for me. I'm on a computer though. You must be using the cellphone app. I don't use that either since it always freezes up and the video-slider, pause or won't work at all. I just go directly through the mobile Chrome browser if I happen to be out away from my PC. Never had any issues with that.
You win today's most-useful-comment-on-the-Internet award.
When you first removed the case and saw the cell I actually said out loud its a BL5C! That's seriously a waste of a BL5C cell. They are just so good for a little cell. I wonder if protection boards were rejected, cut off and the cells placed in the factory seconds bin then picked up by the maker of the poundland stuff and decided they can make one hit wonders with them. So wasteful even for a pound or dollar store item.
But even then it doesn't make much sense, the chip in these is the same as in power banks and will protect the cell. They could just have added an USB port for charging and have a quite crappy powerbank instead of this total nonsense
You reckon I could use those BL5Cs to power an MCU?
"People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now." -Eli, The book of Eli.
I have never seen such crap being sold in germany. It should really be forbidden.
It's in the UK too,
Neither in Turkey.
Come to Brazil!
@@satan2583 no
Before you ban recycled batteries, you should ban the billions of one way batteries (AA and AAA) sold in supermarkets day by day...
Great example of commercial greed, omit the micro USB input in order to sell more units, disgraceful!
It better to buy poundland 1200mph power bank one for one pound or there power geek 2200 power bank one for two pound or there 4000mah power bank one for five pound
This is very much prevalent within the tech industry. No wonder "some" manufacturers choose to solder RAM, and epoxy the SSDs on their motherboards.
I hear the next iPhone will omit the charging port.
@@mrwahibtahri Uhn its better not to buy anything from this brand, ever. Why would you buy from a company like this?
@@Krystalmyth because something are good
Do not judge few item by a brand and make it like all the brand item are bad
No that wrong a brand can have some item good and some bad ok
I'm not from the UK, but from the States.. It's always interesting to watch the clive take apart the poundland products.. it's a very interesting hobby of his.
Wow A disposable phone charger that sounds like it'll be great for the environment
This whole concept is an abomination.
These started popping up at my university too. There are outlets that anyone can plug into everywhere, and on top of that, most people already have a rechargeable power bank. What a wasteful and useless device.
Edit: oh, ill have to start collecting these, and modifying and repackaging them.
start your own blackmarket, reselling them with a charging port, lol. Might be able to get a good profit on that, just add a 1-2$ upcharge, maybe try cramming 2 in there, if you can do it safely.
that actually sounds like an awesome hobby XD
Collect them together and create an ebike battery.
Id support that
But the power Output is genious because you can put in in Apple and Android devices
Love the Fluke 70-Series meter. A true classic! Mine’s had almost 30 years of use and is still going strong.
Does anyone else get a warm fuzzy feeling in their head when listening to Clive talk?
This kind of wastefulness should be made illegal by governments.
Wasteful governments should be made illegal too
Governments are powered by business, business is fuelled by consumerism?
@@twotone3070 it won't really matter when were out of resources the blame game will be unless by then.
These Products are a Disgrace.
Trading standards Should ban them . .
The CRAZIEST thing is I can AND HAVE got a proper rechargeable USB battery for the equivalent OF 3 POUNDS here in Australia. Does about 75% of my phone battery. And I have had it for probably more than a year and a half at this point. Works well. Actually I just realized it's the exact same as the orange one you vehicle got there. Except black.
I was looking at these in line at the Lowes the other day really wondering what the deal was. Good timing.
Oh I wish this concept would just die. Heck, just sell chargers that use alkaline/NiMH AA/AAA cells, maybe with batteries included, or on the same shelf as the batteries for a mean impulse buy. They have stupid capacities compared to lithium, they're ubiquitous, and they don't fill landfills with valuable materials shortly after leaving the box.
Well, normally all of these kind of batteries should be recycled and used again and again and again instead of going to a landfill or beeing burned.
They lack capacity, and must be recycled. However 99% or hgigher, number of batteries will never be recycled.
@Paul MAY you gotta make sure youre using duracell or energizer, first off. you literally cannot use the off brand batteries for this as they generally have less than 1/3 the capacity. and then you might as well buy a power brick, because a 4 pack of duracell or energizer cots you about 1/6th the price of a brick.
@@FingerinUrDaughter ever heard of a 18650 cell, they can output stupid amounts of power for their size compaired to junk Energizer batterys. I've used that trash many many times and see no difference.
@@goldenfox334 their also 3.7V and could absolutely never be used to replace a AA battery. youre so full of shit its painful.
Every day's a Festival with Big Clive!
Excellent . Great that the hack works by stuffing wires without having to source components.
Haven’t heard anyone call their pry tool a spudger since the iPhone 4 repair days. Really brought me back lol
Such devices make absolutely zero sense. They are a waste of perfectly good lithium cells.
A few extra cents and these could be rechargeable low capacity power banks.
Poundland should be ashamed of itself
Have you seen some of the crap that Ashens reviews from Poundland? Makes this battery look positively stellar.
There is no shame in buiseness only profit.
Why don't they make an adapter to charge your phone with a hand crank or with AA/AAA batteries?
They do. They're rubbish. You get very little charge for a lot of cranking.
@@bigclivedotcom there's a manga called eden no ori where the nerd Shirou uses a foot powered charger for his laptop. Its an interesting approach for sure.
Just found one of these discarded on the side of the street (already smashed open presumably in disgust by its last user at the additional 6% charge they just got in their phone!). Just charging the cell at the moment and then then thought perhaps I should just check it is a really is a lipo and not some strange dry cell in a lipo case. I knew I could rely on BigClive to have already checked one out for us! Cheers Clive, as always, keeping us entertained with his knowledge and wit.
Excellent use of world resources.
That is a huge waste of materials. 500mah is really really small
Read more is shamefull since usb connector is modified for made impossible recharge it...
@@Tonyx.yt. Should be illegal honestly.
Somebody needs to petition to get companies to stop selling these things, or to make it outright illegal.
In my neighbourhood, the police would immediately assume I was making "some sort of bomb" if they found these components in my pocket. Funny how some people routinely insist that anything they don't understand is a threat to national security. 🤨
It's like the disposable ecigs having a rechargeable cell inside. What a waste.
Even worse, for the same size, I have four $2 rechargeable 1800mah (I actually tested them - they're right up there) square charge banks that are the same size as that larger square unit. You just have to use a cable.
I love this channel. Educational and interesting:)
After watching the power hit video I bought one and fitted a single pin header either side to charge it with a tp4056 board. Never used it but it was a fun project.
Also known as the "Sony" production/design/marketing solution (put in weights/make it bigger to look more expensive).
PS3/PS4 controllers are flimsy and light cheap crap though.
@@Thorpe I disagree the PS3 controller was definitely cheaply built, light and rarely lasted me more than 3 month the PS4 controllers however has a nice bit of weight in them and one of my PS4 controllers has lasted well over a year and if you ever take them apart you can tell that they are built fairly well considering they cost $60
Edit: Another difference is if you dropped a PS4 controller, 90% of the time it would break however I've dropped my PS4 controller plenty of time before and it still works so the PS4 controller is definitely more sturdy than the PS3 controllers
This sounds like a really bad product! The cost/charge is madness.
It better to buy poundland 1200mph power bank one for one pound or there power geek 2200 power bank one for two pound or there 4000mah power bank one for five pound
I got mine for a £1.00. Keep up the great work clive
These are fantastic . Best things ever made . We should all buy loads of them .
Hey Clive, as a video game enthusiast and long-time watcher, I've always thought it'd be really interesting to see you take apart video game consoles and peripherals and see how they work. I understand that that might be a bit expensive though. And the videos would be lengthy, as they'd have much more going on than a lamp or charger bank.
RUclips has started to automatically unsubscribe my account from your channel, just as what seems to have happened at Franlab's subscribers. I am glad I noticed as I was missing this video in my subscription overview, and I am trying to warn you about it.
They unsubscribe thousands of viewers a month.
HOW THIS IS ALLOWED?????????? RUclips IS SLOWLY BECOMING A DICTATORSHIP
Wow... And here I thought I had seen and heard it all in the video...
Thanks for the video. I have a Hurricane Turbine Bluetooth headset. Its battery failed after a year. I tried opening it up and replacing it with a Power Hit battery upon seeing that video (I unsoldered the original battery and used a junction block to allow me to screw in a new battery without solder) but that didn't work too well. It didn't last long after charging (only seemed half full according to my iPhone after charging) and after a few cycles was not lasting at all. Just saw this video and gave the Power Pod a go instead. Much better results! Lasted ages initially, and seems to have charged up properly to full with the headset's built in protection circuits seemingly working well. Time will tell how this one fayres but already much better and I bought a second as a spare since they only cost one pound each (not two pounds) when I bought them. It may have been a travesty selling them as one use disposables but it's a great source of cheap but decent spare Lithium Ion batteries to replace faulty ones. It was so nice to resurrect my favourite bluetooth headphones too.
I would love to see something like that, but with USB-C plug and rechargable so you can plug it into USB-C charger and throw into bag when you need only a an emergency recharge.
Anything disposable is attractive to a certain type of person by the handful. I looked but my local "Poundland" doesn't stock them.
Such a waste.
These would be great for an ESP8266/ESP32 project such as a solar powered weather station. Thanks BC.
I was thinking along those lines myself. It would make a good basis for solar power garden lights, that can power the LEDs at proper level of intensity.
Thank you Clive, very cool
When Clive first pulled it out I swear I read it as “Power Poo”. Shanking head!
things like that should be illegal.. this is bs..
Clive, every time I see "poundland" in the title I have to stop everything I'm doing to watch. Cheers, from Canada
If you look these up, these are made of old phone batteries that can't be used for battery banks or new batteries. They also have a system to send them in to recycle them
Popped into Poundland today and bought one, it came on the till as only £1 so winner 🙂 linked it to a TP4056 with Battery protection LIPO Charger Module Board Micro USB TE420
Lmao “poundland”
Timothy White I’m going to pound town...erm land lol
So they could've made this OTG rechargeable and omitted isolation switch?
I mean, the isolation switch is still a nice idea for something that you might want to have in storage for a while :) The Li-Ion cell will still self-discharge somewhat, but more slowly than if it had that IC's quiescent current draining it as well.
It better to buy poundland 1200mph power bank one for one pound or there power geek 2200 power bank one for two pound or there 4000mah power bank one for five pound
@@AndrewGillard It better to buy poundland 1200mph power bank one for one pound or there power geek 2200 power bank one for two pound or there 4000mah power bank one for five pound
@@mrwahibtahri maybe you should stop repeating yourself, i think we all got the message.
@@SianaGearz I reply to most people
HOLY SHIT these videos are relaxing
Battery sign : No garbage sign
Manufacture : We just made a disposable powerbank
I guess that it's cheaper to use rechargable batteries just because they are made in billions, so they cost the same as disposable ones, but with higher energy density... but it's a crime against the earth, this is far beyond programmed obsolescence... if you find many of them, just make a big stack, use some cheap ebay / aliexpress 2€ hollow power bank with battery protection and there you go, a decent power bank with scalable capacity...
I scavange every single electronic for batteries, and this is a crime...
I’m one of those people who are more interested in scavaging electronic components than a lame festival XD
More throwaway electronics, great just what the world needs!
I think Clive's correct on the reason for these Poundland ones in particular but I'm going to speculate a little more on this. A warehouse somewhere with a surplus of old mobile power cells. The phones they fit are now obsolete so they have no real marketable value. They get put on some clearance list, a butt load of lithium cells for next to nothing, the holders just basically trying to get rid of them and get a little return back. Someone sees these and thinks up an application to get them turned around and on the shelves at a significant mark up and voila. With the way the world is today, the cells would have ended up in landfill anyway, either dumped en-mass by the warehouse after non-sale or through this application.
It says
"Great for festivals"
What it actually should say is
"Great for destroying the planet "
It should be mandatory that places that sell these accept used ones as returns and give you a percentage of the cost back. The seller is then responsible for sending the returns back to the manufacturer who must recycle them.
The sellers wouldn't want to take them back, the manufacturers wouldn't want to recycle them, they stop making them. Problem solved.
Except every seller would be throwing them into their own garbage bins.
I picked up 3 of these little jobbies from Ebay, the first one I managed to hook up to a freshly charge 18650 as they didn't really mark the hookup polarity on the blasted deal, then I went back to the auction, and they had it marked on their site. The surprising thing about it, is that when I hooked her up, the main chip burned the hell out of my hand and smoke came from both the chip and my skin, then try as I might, I couldn't get it to work (BIG SURPRISE!) So after getting another working, I decided to experiment with the broken one, I didn't have a plug that fit the speaker out, so I soldered on some flat wire that I removed from some old stereo or something, then hooked them up to my speakers, the blasted thing came back to life!!! IT LIVES!!!!! I have been playing music on it over blue-tooth from my laptop, as well as on the micro SD (TF) card and she really plays well. It won't blow the roof off the house with it's little 3W amp but it could make your ears ring if you put it one some headphones. I don't know where they tore these off, but you can see they were once part of some larger device, and the blue-tooth shows them as wireless headset with microphone, they do have a mic on board. I haven't been able to get it to talk back yet but I will keep playing. www.ebay.com/itm/Wireless-Audio-Receiver-Digital-Bluetooth-Board-Amplifier-DIY-Stereo-Speaker-ST/163233961641?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
Outrageous!
I'd be interested to see a review of the Blackweb charge bank; I recently bought an Aukey 20100 mAh one, and it looks identical to the Blackweb (and is also pretty darn heavy). I reckon it's a useful bit of kit.
I'm a geocacher, and together with many in the UK Geocaching FB group, swear by the Anker Powercore 20100 - sure, it's a little weighty (360g / 12.7 oz), but you are looking at 6x 18650 cells inside the casing (as the name suggests, 20.1 Ah = 72.36 Wh) - so plenty to keep your phone topped up during a day's roaming around the countryside, making extensive use of GPS + data + screen + camera.
Your modded one..
Perfect for a battery backup on a raspberry pi just put it inline and off you go.
Can we Just acknowledge that this is literally coreross. Like this has to be his second channel.
These things are awesome.
I once found something like this while dumpster diving at a Five Below and the thing was freaking powered by three AAA batteries. The fact that it could have easily been reusable if they allowed you to easily open the thing makes it quite a bit more annoying in my opinion. I feel like a battery-operated portable charger would get a decent amount of sales as it's something you can grab on the go without putting time into charging.
"1708"
damn can't believe they had phone chargers over 300 years ago
i got a wind up charger from the £ shop few years ago ,bought all 25 they had flogged em on ebay - mine still works charges n has adaptors too
Last festival I worked at up near Leeds (UK) it had a mobile charging wagon which you paid to leave your phone on charge.
Staff on the other hand had to either leave their phone or power bank in the staff lunch room to charge, so best always bring a power bank
-goes outside
-sees British "person"
-day ruined
-😢
In 1990s Britain there was a lot of talk about Trevor Bayliss and his wind-up radio. A handle wound a strong spring which drove a generator to power a radio. Could you make a wind-up human-powered phone charger? By my calculations (probably wrong) 4000mAh at 4V is about 60kJ - equivalent to about 13 kilocalories, not a significant part of a typical human's energy budget.
I recently went into the back of an old cupboard and found a wind up charger that once belonged to a Nokia 3310. I had forgotten all about it till I found it in there and that's when I remembered just how utterly rubbish it was. Perhaps if it were a better made charger it might work better but, given the experience of that thing at Leeds fest many years ago, I have my doubts!
Even with LED flashlights the amount of effort required to put some charge into them by physical means is immense. Not worth the bother unless it was all you had.
if you have an old bicycle, you can go full bridge rectifier+cap on the dynamo, it produces max 6V usually (zdiode) less under lower rpm.
with the bridge+cap you should reach the 6V earlier.
The old dynamos had terrible efficiency but you can get your 5 to 10 Watts.
then go linear low drop regulator to 5.2V / 1.5Amps and you can charge anything usb.
...And use a simple phone without touch, simple lcd and buttons 😄
On a fixed bike/treadmill you can easily work 30..50W of load, 75 is already a bit sportif...
@@PsiQ I should actually get myself a hub dynamo for the front wheel and make a self-built power bank by designing the electronics (it's not quite so trivial if it should be optimal) and stuffing a bunch of 18650s into the handlebar, with an outlet at the end. Wouldn't that be nice?
@@bigclivedotcom Well, the "jerk-off" LED flashlight was big over in the US for a little while... LOL
I love the name "Poundland"
I have one of those 20Ah blackweb batteries... Capacity wise the thing is a boss... It doesn't care for heavy loading but will get you there provided you're ok with slow charging or running something like a raspberry pi for hours on end
Another source for scavenging small li-ion batteries for projects is disposable vape pens. They are very thin, cylindrical batteries with a marked capacity of 280 mAh. Not very powerful, granted, but depending on how small your project is, they can be useful. You can always use more than one in parallel and still have a very thin enclosure compared to what an 18650 would require, for example.
What about the one use vapes I see them all over the ground in my town
And there full of rechargable lithium batterys too
They use lithium batteries at around 250mah not rechargeable
Lol Lol some are though I’ve seen reusable and rechargeable 3v ones thrown outside the vape shop in my town.....I just grab em and reuse em lol
It would be a great fun to get a room tour of yours
I got myself a"24 Ah" USB power bank, It has been incredibly useful, i would wager it would be close to 15 to 20 amp hours.
Manufacturers of these disposable power banks should be facing steep fines.
Also, all smartphone users ought to be forced to watch videos like this one.
Hey, look! The name says "Pound" in it! Obviously, it's supposed to go to the pound!
Looks a lot like one I picked up somewhere with 3 aaa alkaline cells. By breaking in, was able to replace the cells rather than throw it away.
Best excuse I can think of for these is being able to buy a pre-charged thing that can give you a small boost on the spot, as I don't think most actual powerbanks come precharged. Would've been a pretty nice idea if not for the waste of a perfectly good rechargeable cell...