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so you've left your phone plugged into the wall all night you wake up with it

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fully charged and ready for a full day of selfies catching pokemon and selfies

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of catching pokemon but just a few hours in you get the

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dreaded low battery warning and there's narian outlet in sight

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this is where portable battery banks can save the day you just

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whip it out of your pocket and bam no solar panel or flashbacks to playing

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with the scary jack-in-the-box to get the juice you so desperately need but

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with all the options out there how do you know which one to pick well

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aside from the usual reading reviews and checking manufacturer reputations just

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as you would do with a graphics card a webcam or an extra large hamster wheel

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the most obvious place to start is with the battery's capacity it's typically

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expressed in milliamp hours which despite the name is actually not a unit

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of time scientists must hate us right but rather a unit that describes the

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amount of electrical energy a device can

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hold so you can think of a device whose

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battery is rated for fewer milliamp hours like an iphone

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as a cup of water and a battery bank rated for more milliamp hours as a

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bucket of water so a battery pack with a high milliamp

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hour rating can hold enough energy that it can power up your devices multiple

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times or power up devices like tablets

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with a higher battery capacity themselves

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so consumer grade battery banks start around 2000 milliamp hours and go all

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the way up to over 9000 these devices at the higher end of that

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range are capable of charging your average smartphone eight times or even

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more but if you've had a few of them you might

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have noticed that battery banks with the same milliamp hour rating can vary quite

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a lot in terms of performance so what gives

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for one thing not all batteries discharge at the same rate all the time

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this is especially true if you're charging devices that draw a lot of

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current such as high-end tablets this lowers the effective capacity to below

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what it would be if you were just charging low current electronics

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there's also more to life than just battery size there are features to

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consider in this video here we compared

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five rugged battery banks that advertised everything from built-in led

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flashlights to shock and water resistance though it should be noted

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that some of these claims didn't end up panning out in the real world

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and while we're on that subject there's more to life than manufacturers ratings

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for capacity too line has published a video that's me comparing how many times

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six different brands of battery banks could recharge an iphone se and while

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most reputable brands were within 15 percent of each other the worst one

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tested was less than one third as effective as some of the others

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and it doesn't get easier charging rate

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going back to our water analogy is how quickly you can pour from your bucket to

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your cup and is a huge factor for folks who want to plug in for 20 minutes while

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getting ready for that big date and not have to carry their charger around for

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the rest of the night typically battery banks have either 1 amp or 2 amp outputs

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both of which are running at the standard usb 5 volts if you have a

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device that can accept 2 amps of current as many newer ones can then a 2 amp

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output on your battery bank will not only charge your device faster but it

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will also keep it running if you need to use it while it's charging keep in mind

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though that chargers labeled as 4.8 amp

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or some other high number are usually referring to total current across all of

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the ports which is great if you're going to be plugging in multiple power hungry

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devices at once if the regular usb spec isn't enough for

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you though there are even some battery banks that support rapid charging

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technologies like qualcomm quick charge and samsung fast charge that can power

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up your devices even more quickly by increasing from 5 volts up to as high as

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20 volts but those require both a device

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and a charger that support it now go forth with this knowledge and find

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yourself a battery bank that gives you all the power you've ever wanted

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just don't use it to try and invade russia in the winter time we all know

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