{"id":14379,"date":"2014-04-07T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=14379"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:49:40","slug":"diablotek-8800mah-portable-usb-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/diablotek-8800mah-portable-usb-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablotek 8800mAh Portable USB Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is out of stock on Amazon. I can’t find another source for this particular battery. If you know where to get them, please post in the comments. — Mark]<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve been a road warrior for years now, and have gone through over a dozen different Portable USB batteries – they have all either broken (Looking at you, fancy LiPoly chargers!), I’ve lost them, or I outgrew their capacity.<\/p>\n

Capacity is the name of the game with this little device! While it is heavy, weighing in at 247 grams (Slightly over a half pound), it packs in every feature that a road warrior would need:<\/p>\n

* 8800mAH capacity
\n* 2 standard USB ports, one outputting at 5V-2A
\n* Charges via a standard micro-USB cable
\n* Simple On\/Off
\n* A ring of LEDs around the power button show capacity remaining (Both charging and discharging)
\n* Comes with a handful of different adapters, though they aren’t needed<\/p>\n

I picked it up at a local Microcenter for less than $20, thinking it would be trash \u2014 but it’s survived dozens of drops, hundreds of charge\/discharge cycles, water, mud and more than enough to have me come to depend on this little guy!<\/p>\n

The best part is the 5V – 2Amp output – this allows most devices to enter a fast charge state, which is noticeably quicker than with a standard socket. <\/p>\n

On a recent 6-hour flight, I kept both my Android phone and my power hungry Nexus 7 plugged into it. I played games, listened to music, or watched movies the entire time on the Nexus and when we landed both devices were at 100% AND the little USB battery was still at 75%. <\/p>\n

In fact, I have yet to drain it beyond 50%, and that includes a 12-hour day of Geocaching with my phone’s GPS on and the screen fully awake. <\/p>\n

It also holds a charge for a long long time \u2014 I’ve left it alone for 6 months, only to come back and see it’s still at almost a full charge.<\/p>\n

If I had an gripe with it at all, it’s that it lacks an attachment point, which is corrected with some epoxy and a trip to the hardware store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cheap, rugged, high-capacity gadget recharger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14555,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions\/14555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}