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So, for today's video, we're going to be doing a durable battery bank death
match. So, we've got the Unifund U821, an Amazon Basics, which is just going to
be our control group because that's not actually a durable battery bank. a chiro
tough, a pos power active, and a jar of
tank. What I'm going to do is drop them from a certain height, then dunk them
underwater at a certain height, and then increase the height and or depth,
depending on what test we're doing, back to back to back to back until we have
one survivor, or possibly more than one because I don't know how deep and how
high I can get, but I'm expecting it'll come down to one survivor. So, let's
begin.
So, the first depth test is just going to be on this first step. We're not
going that deep. The Amazon Basics is probably going to die. The rest of them
are probably going to live. Let's try it out. I am making all this, making sure
all the seals are fairly tight before I put them in.
The jar of seal is a little bit more finicky than some of the other ones.
This one like floats. So, when you're looking at IP ratings, that's done for a
half an hour at X depth, depending on the IP rating that you have. I'm not
going to leave these underwater for half an hour because honestly, if you drop it
in the water, you should get it within that time. And if you can't get it
within half an hour, it's probably going to be under the water for a lot longer than half an hour. And we're not going
to make this like a 6 day battery bank death match. So, leave it under the
water for like 5 minutes at a time and then it's probably fine. Also, because
I'm trying to put them on the same surface, I'm not just dropping them into the water. That might happen later, but
for this first step thing, I put them in one by one. So, if I have it be a little
bit longer, like five something minutes, and not just a dunk, then it's a higher
chance that everything is more equal. Okay, so I'm going to take them out of the water now. Gather them up. Now, I
don't want to get water like in the USB
thing while I'm charging it. So, the Amazon Basics is going to be a
little rough, but the other one should be okay. Uh, we moved on to Dennis's
iPhone. Sorry, Dennis. We'll probably be fine. Let's start off with the Chiro.
So, there's a little bit of moisture under the water seal for the Chiro, but
I don't see any moisture like in the USB ports or anything like that. So, we'll
see. Yeah, so that one works. Move on to the Unifund. A little bit of moisture,
but not much. And this could be from when I open it. Moisture kind of goes
in. Yeah, that one works. Jar of tank.
This one doesn't have any moisture inside. That one works fine. Moving on
to the foss power. That one works fine.
Amazon Basics. Let's see. Does it live
on? RIP Amazon Basics. It's dead. So, it
made it through the drop test, but the second it hit water, this guy was out.
We did see bubbles come from it right when we dunked it. So, Oh, yeah.
We're pretty sure that was done. And then there were four. Let's drop them
from higher up. Okay, so the next drop test is actually going to be rather simple. I'm just going to hold them up
and then drop them. This is about 7 and 1/2 ft. So, here we go.
The jar ran away a little bit. I'm not that surprised because there's this
really kind of intense rubber on the
sides that probably makes it bounce a whole bunch. So, the jar almost ran into
the water. It almost had an advanced test.
Okay, starting with the FOS power.
Works fine. Now, the Unifund, it's it's
little cover thing actually came off when it dropped. I secured all the
covers before we dropped them. So, that's just something to note.
The unicorn is dead. So, it wasn't just the cover coming off. The UniFi actually
isn't working anymore. If you look at it, I'm going to press the power button.
I'm repeatedly pressing the power button. The lights are not shining. I
tried in this USB port. And press the power button. The phone
doesn't react at all. So, yes, the unifund is out of the race. That's
actually earlier than I expected. So, RIP Unifund. So, if you look at the
unifund, there's a there's a chip on like quite a few of the corners. As you
can see, it impacted very very hard with the ground. All of the remaining battery
banks have at least some form of rubbery material on the outside. The Chiro, the
Fos Power, and the Jarve all have a rubbery like it material that's going to
take impacts. The Unifund does not. It does have that hard shell. So, yeah, I
think that might be what killed it. All right, Jarve is the next one. This one almost ran away on us and has the most
rubbery material around it. So, I'm assuming it's fine.
And it is completely fine. Immediately started working. And last, but hopefully
not least, is the Churro. Well, I guess quite technically not
least at this point, but anyways, trying the Churro.
Churro works fine. We're down to three. All of them have proper rubbery shock
absorption and all of them are water resistant. So, just observing some
damage here on the FOS Power. You can see like a little bit of a bite in right
there, but it doesn't really matter as that has nothing to do with the actual
durability or the water resistance of the unit as it's all kind of contained
within here, which still seems still has some moisture from the last uh
submersion test, but seems completely fine in terms of integrity. So, that guy
seems to be doing okay. The Chiro did land on the button bit. I've kind of
cleaned it off and it seems fine, but there's no visual damage. And other than
that, it actually seems to be completely okay. I would be hardressed to say that
that this had been dropped at all if you just handed it to me randomly. The Jarve
on the other hand, once we popped it open, we did notice that there was some
dents on that raised part on the inside, and I'm kind of wondering, you can see
where it landed on the the rubbery part on the outside. I am wondering if that
is going to compromise its integrity. So, we're going into the water test.
Jarve, can you hold on? One important note about the Jarve tank is that its
seal can actually be a little bit tricky. So, when you're putting it in,
you need to make sure that you've pressed down everywhere cuz it doesn't
like to sit naturally on its own, including where the hinge is. So, you got to make sure you go all the way
along the back. And then, you might be able to notice it's still a little bit
puffy. And that's because the seals on the inside haven't even gone in yet. So,
you need to push this area down as well and make sure that everything goes in.
That's because when I take it off, you can see these plugs for the USB ports.
Those don't even naturally go in. So, you have to make sure that they go in as
well and seal everything else off or else you're going to lose like all of
your water resistance. So, our first water dunk test was at about 3 4 in.
Now, we're going to about like 3 and 3/4 to 4 ft. None of this is exact. We're
not measuring any of it. We're basing it off of like my height, so don't worry too much about it. Here we go.
I'm sure that was sexy. Anyways, we now have our batteries.
I need to try them out.
The chiro has some moisture just like last time, but again, just like last
time, not in the USB port. That's probably because it has the extension
under the top. Plug it in.
No response immediately. Yep. No lights at all.
to your dad. That's unfortunate. Okay,
moving on to the FOS power. Popping its
top. A little bit of moisture just like last time, but not near the USB port.
I think that 4 and 1/2 ft for 5 minutes was the great bringer of death. Floss
power is dead as well. Moving on to the jar of tank. It is the most expensive,
but it also might be the last one left. Oh, there's water under the seal. Even
though I was very sure that I did it properly, although that might have been
because of the damage that happened when it was dropped from 7 1/2 ft. This one's
dead, too. That would be kind of what Oh,
the jar tank survives. Instantly worked.
Still shows full power. We're going to have a special remaining test for the
jar tank, but as far as I'm concerned, it wins. We're just going to see how
much it can take at this point. All right, it is our last remaining battery
bank. I'm now going to throw it at that rock wall, let it hit the wall, fall
into the water, and then see if it survives after that.
Okay, so it's a little bit unfortunate that a few of the other ones didn't survive because while the jar tank is
still alive, it's also really hard to see cuz it's all black. So, if you did
happen to drop it somewhere, like underwater, and it was even the
slightest bit murky, it would be really hard to find.
Okay, so I found it. It didn't come that far off the wall, probably cuz it
glanced downwards afterwards. It's probably about 6 ft underwater. We're
going to leave it for 5 minutes. If it does survive this, we'll do some other
tests after that. See if it survives those as well. But if it survives this,
I'll be pretty impressed because after the impact, it is very likely that that
water seal came off. So, we'll see how it does. Okay, so it's been about 5
minutes. I'm going to go grab it now. See if it survived. I kind of don't think so, but it did.
The water seal's completely off.
So, uh that's probably rip jar. Oh my
god, the lights are still on. What? It
might still work. So, it survived that craziness. Now, I'm going to try
smashing into the ground a few times. See if it survives that. If it still
lives, we'll try some more crazy water stuff. But here we go.
Lights are still on,
although they're like flashing. The second you plug the phone in, the light
stops flashing and it charges just fine. The drive tank is still alive. So, at
this point, the seal for the water is like completely non-functioning, and the
battery is slightly bent, but it's still working. I think we're getting into like
a little bit dangerous category here.
I think it's dead. I think it's finally dead. So, just surveying the damage
here. This corner where I threw it down on is pretty beat up. Like, it's
actually lifted. If you look on the inside, I can like almost peel back this
corner of like the sticker that's on it or whatever. I don't think it's alive
anymore. I'm pretty sure it's definitely conquered at this point. But I dropped
it from 5 ft. I dropped it from 7 1/2 ft. It was underwater at about 3 in. It
was underwater about 4 ft. It was underwater against a wall really hard
with its water seal coming off. And then at 6 ft for about 5 minutes and then I
smashed into the ground. It kept working even though it was bent. And then I
smashed it into the ground two more times to the point where it's like
cracking and it finally died. I think
that's pretty solid in my opinion. So, it's a few days later and in a
completely different location, but I did want to cover a few things and I'm going
to cover them starting in order of which battery bank died. So, starting with the
Amazon basics, it didn't claim anything in its title in terms of durability and
it's cheap and it's an Amazon basics product so it's probably just going to
work. That was its that was its selling point, not its durability. So, I'm not
surprised that it died almost immediately when it touched water, but I
was pretty impressed that it survived the first drop. The next one to die was
the Unifund U821. This one totes in its title that it is
waterproof, which is not true. It has an
IP rating of IP66, which doesn't even mean that it's immersion rated. It means
that it is rated for at least three minutes of 100 lers per minute with a
pressure of 100 kPa and a distance of 3 meters of like a water jet being shot at
it. Not immersive, just like a water gun. And it died from a drop that none
of the other battery banks died from, which was a little bit disappointing cuz
it wasn't really that bad, but oh my goodness is it cheap when it's on sale.
And it's basically always on sale. So there you go. Next up was a tie between
the Foss Power Active and the Chiro Tough. Starting with the Foss power, it
claims that it is waterproof, shockproof, and dustproof in the title
for the product. One of those is true, not two of them, and that is that it is
dust proof, which is not very hard to do. Its water resistance rating is IP67,
which is 3 ft or 1 m for half an hour. It died outside of this rating, being at
slightly over 4T underwater. So, I guess it did pretty well in that regard, but
it did lie about its capabilities in the title. The Chiro advertised itself
properly by saying in the title that it is waterresistant, shockresistant, and
dustproof, which is true. It is also IP66 rated, which is the same as the
Unifund, but did survive underwater for a little while and didn't die until we
had it slightly over 4T underwater. So, props to Chiro. Then there's the Jarve
Tank, which also lied in its title. No,
it is not waterproof, and no, it is not shockproof. It does have an IP rating of
67 with the cap closed and 65 with the
cap open, which is similar to the shooting water at it thing, but just not
quite as aggressive. It took shocks like a boss with me smashing against a wall
and then repeatedly smashing against the ground. And it managed saltwater even
with very, very good levels well beyond its actual rating with the cap off over
6 ft underwater and managing completely fine. Very impressive. Just disappointed
that it lied in its title. I'm going to personally stick with the Chiro tough.
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going to point that out, but they were not a sponsor of this video at all. We
bought the Chiro Tough that we used in this video. And the reason why I'm
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