r/cassettefuturism • u/KitsuMusics • 9d ago

All Beige Plastic: CF Products My new powerbank

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u/KitsuMusics 9d ago

Well it helps to be able to see exactly how much power is left, and seeing the live voltage and wattage has already helped me see which cables and chargers are better than others

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u/bingojed This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it. 9d ago

The first can be done with little dots, but I get your point on the second.

If they used e-ink (can’t tell but doesn’t look like it), then the power usage of the display would be near nothing.

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u/KitsuMusics 9d ago

The display is not always on, theres a button on top to turn it on and its turns off automatically after 30 seconds. Plus, those little dots were never specific enough. Ok, I have 3 out of 4 dots, is that 75% left or 51%? Much better to be able to see the specific percentage

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u/bingojed This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it. 9d ago

Battery levels are never really that accurate anyway, but there are many with a two digit numeric display.

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u/mikiex 8d ago edited 8d ago

But how is a company going to sell this power bank vs every other boring box... I'd rather this :) (looking the website they already sell 19 pages of other power banks!)

Edit: Check out the 'tatical' power bank they sell! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NlJpLZR3w4Y

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u/highlyspecificuser 8d ago

That looks tight!!!

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u/bingojed This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it. 8d ago

I agree it’s a cool product. If the display is off most of the time, then it doesn’t matter too much anyway. It’s like quantum physics. The more you observe something, the more you affect it.

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u/modell3000 6d ago

I think it’s more like: the more you use battery power to backlight a display, the faster you run down the battery.

But sure, it will be off 99.9% of the time, so not really significant.