Thank you everyone. On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Absolutely incorrect, the charging time has nothing to do with the > capacity of the power bank, but whether the one you buy supports Apple’s > fast charging standard or not. > > I would recommend you look at Anker because I think especially with Prime > Days coming up (provided you have an Amazon prime account) you should be > able to get some very good deals. > > If you want something for at home which you can use of an extended power > outage, you should go big as in 20,000 MAH or even better 25 or 26,000 MAH. > > For example, an iPhone 16 Pro has a battery with a capacity of 3,582 MAH > or 13.94 WH (that stands for Watt Hours) and sometimes very large capacity > batteries give Watt Hours instead of MAH (Milliamp Hours). Anyways, > theoretically, if you have an iPhone with a 3,582 MAH battery and an > external battery with 20,000 MAH capacity, you should be able to charge > your iPhone completely about 5.5 times (20,000 divided by 3,582). Of > course that isn’t completely exact, you may charge your iPhone when it’s > down to 8% one day, but maybe when it’s 19% another day. But if you don’t > let it run down to 0%, I’d say you will get about 5 charges out of such a > battery, get one with 25,000 or 26,000 MAH and you most likely get at least > 6 or maybe even 7 charges. > > The large capacity batteries can usually also charge a laptop which > charges via USB-C at 65 or even 100 Watt, and of course you can charge > anything which charges via USB like hadsets, Bluetooth speakers, Bluetooth > keyboards, an Apple Watch, an iPad etc. > > Nowadays these batteries typically have at least 2 and sometimes they have > 3 or 4 ports, some are USB-C only whereas many still have at least 1 USB-A > port (the older, larger port). Keep in mind that fast charging an iPhone > typically will be via USB-C as you need at least 25 Watts output and 30 > Watts is better. > > I have a large battery from Hyperjuice which can output up to 240 Watts > and it has 1 port which can output 140 Watts which is required if you want > to fast charge a Mac laptop. While I don’t have one of them, I have used it > for my laptop, of course my iPhone and other stuff. It has 4 USB-C ports, > as I said, 1 can deliver 140 Watts, 1 can do 100 Wats and the 2 remaining > can do 60 or 65 Watts and they also work in reverse for charging the power > bank. Keep in mind that your total output is always divided up across all > the ports, e.g. if I were to use the full 140 Watts to fast charge a Mac > laptop, then I wouldn’t have the full 100 Watts and 2 times 65 Watts > available on the other 3 because that would exceed the total capacity. The > good thing is that you don’t have to really worry about it as it regulates > itself and just as with wall adapters which deliver 100 //Watts or 140 > Watts per port, you can safely plug in a headset which only requires 5 > Watts because the port will only deliver what the device can use. > Similarly, if you have an older battery which can only deliver say 10 > Watts, you can plug an iPad into that port and it will charge, but very > slowly. > > Anker even makes power stations, those are not really portable or at least > not to the point where you can easily put them in a backpack because they > are maybe the size of a car battery, but they are meant for somebody who, > for example, maybe has a cabin out in the woods somewhere with no power, > but they want to make sure they have enough juice for the weekend to charge > their laptop, iPhone etc. > > Anker makes an entire line of such devices under the name “ > <https://www.ankersolix.com/ca/collections/portable-power-stations> > > Anker SOLIX > <https://www.ankersolix.com/ca/collections/portable-power-stations> > > “ and you can get systems which pretty much can run your home and which > cost many thousands of dollars. > > > > Another thing to keep in mind is that if you plan to bring your power bank > along when you travel, you must put it n your carry on luggage if you fly > and to be taken on an airplane, it cannot exceed a capacity of 100 WH which > is MAH is 27,000. This is why most external large capacity batteries are > 25,000 or 26,000 MAH as this comes in at just under the 100 WH limit.. > > > > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of > *[email protected] > *Sent:* Sunday, July 6, 2025 9:26 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: Portable Iphone charging power bank. > > > > 20,000 milliamps is more powerful than the 10,000 one. So, u shud > experience less time to charge. > > > > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of > *Barbara Stahl > *Sent:* Sunday, July 6, 2025 12:11 AM > *To:* Viphone <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Portable Iphone charging power bank. > > > > Hi list! I am considering purchasing a portable charging power bank for my > iphone. I thought that it might be a good idea to have something like this > for times when a storm or something knocks out the power. 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