This is a really good price for an amazing powerbank. I have two, and they are airport safe for carry ons… powers my laptop even.
I’m sad, I just bought this the last time they had it listed for just under $130. Wish I had waited.
We’re working on getting everyone who bought these at the prior deal price a refund. You should see it come through in the next couple of days.
I find this device too bulky unless you need it to power a laptop
Is that going to happen automatically, from the previous $120 price, regardless of how far back during that sale we bought them?
This will last roughly 24 minutes at its full output. (You’re not likely to be charging devices at that rate.)
100 Wh / 250W = 0.4 h = 24 minutes.
That’s assuming a new battery on its first charge cycle. Rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries degrade with time, temperature and use. (A scientific fact, not a knock against the product.)
If I had to guess this will have 9 or 10 18650 battery cells inside.
Not buying one, however. I’ll just plug into a wall, I don’t need another app or WiFi device on my network.
This charger lasts me at least 4 hours charging my Surface Pro and phone. If you’re trying to power 250W of anything you should absolutely should “just plug into a wall”.
I have the 24,000 version of this with a few less bells and whistles. They are phenomenal tech and I can’t imaging why there is a fire sale on these. One youtuber mentioned you can go camping with a couple powerbanks like these and charge them with a portable solar panel while charging other devices at the same time. Great for a power outage as well.
Went 5 days without power (thanks Milton) & 10 without internet. The couple little battery packs I had worked great.
I’m down for one.
Just got my notification of a $20 refund. Thanks so much, awesome service from Woot.
Just to clarify, this deal does NOT include the charging base?
The one I received did not. I though it was clear that it was powerbank ala carte.
I find batteries like this invaluable for being able to run electronics (Ipads, etc.) for a long time without having to plug in near a wall, especially with children who don’t believe batteries are a thing and tablets just work until they don’t. I bought two of these particular batteries in the event I take my laptop where outlets don’t exist I can still use it with a fully-bright screen for a while. I have a Windows laptop so each battery will only give me about 90 minutes of zoom meetings, but that’s not the battery’s fault.
I think this is a decent deal but far from a fire sale. Lol
Hey! It already came through! Much appreciated!
You can buy the companion charging base on Amazon for $89.99 if you’d like.
If you are willing to pay $127.99 for Used-Like New, you can pick up the Charging base with a 20,000mAh Power bank. Basically, paying full price for the base and $38 for an extra Powerbank
Do you NEED the dock to charge this? Or is there another method to charge it? Is this powerbank useless without the base?
Thanks!
This can be charged with just about any USB charging brick that supports USB-PD over a USB-C connector. The higher the wattage, the faster it will charge (which can matter a lot for such a big power bank, since we’re talking hours)
The benefit to the base is that you have a “no plug” solution that is very simple to drop the battery onto the base, and it can do its thing. Plus, it can even charge devices while sitting on the base. However, the biggest benefit in my opinion, is if you have multiple of these batteries, in which case you use one, and swap it with a freshly charged one that is on the base/dock, and it can just always keep your electronics charged and ready to go. Slightly less convenient or cool if all you have is one, because then it’s no biggie to plug it in.
Hope that helps. I’ve got a few of the batteries in this model family, and they’re great. Worked amazingly for international travel, or even little trips.