Having back up power when on the go, now days, is almost a must. This is especially true if you don’t work in an office environment, or in a location where power is available to charge your devices. Not to mention you are out hiking, on location shooting landscapes and so on…
I’ve been using the Tylt Energi 10k Battery Pack for a couple of years now. As a matter of fact, I purchased it from Gatwick airport just before we flew out to Rome back in May 2014.
It’s proven to be a pretty useful piece of kit and has even accompanied me through 6 months of travel from the beginning of this year. This includes backpacking, camping and cruising around New Zealand, for one month, in a Campervan.
Recently though it’s been acting up. It charges devices my mobile devices perfectly, but it appears as if the Mini USB Input is faulty. As a result, I am unable to recharge the battery pack itself.
The only way I can keep it on charge is to keep the charging cable plugged in at an angle, if that makes sense. Or I what I have to do is rest the pack at an angle thus applying pressure to the charging cable.
Instead of buggering around with it too much, I ordered a new one off Amazon.
The new Battery Pack, by Ravpower, only has 2 X USB ports, vs the 3 USB ports of the Tylt, but in honestly 2 is enough.
The only time I used all 3 of the USB ports on the Tylt was when I had it in my car/van and I only one one USB Car Charger. So what I would do was plug the Input of the battery pack into the USB car charger, and then in turn plug in all my required devices from the Tylt. Usually, in my car/van, I would have my mobile phone, my work mobile phone and my work PDA or my iPad mini on charge.
But now days I have a 4 port USB car charger and that’s more than enough to keep all my gadgets topped up while driving around. So the new battery pack is purely for when I am out and about.
The Ravpower is a 16750mAh and has a total of 4.5A output. Where as the Tylt was 10400mAh and had a total of 4.1A output.
There is a blue LED strip on the top that shows when it is being charged or it shows how much power is left.
It’s about the same size as the Tylt, and comes with a nifty built in torch for those times you, well, need a torch.
I’ll be testing it out over the new few weeks. They reckon it can charge an iPhone 6s 6 times and an iPad mini 1.5 times. Whether that is from empty to full, I’m not sure. But testing will commence soon… For now, it goes in it’s little carry bag that was supplied, and put into my daily backpack.
If you want to know more or read more, or even just get one for yourself, yours a link to it on Amazon. (Please note that I have no affiliates with Amazon or this product)
Let me know what you think if you have one.
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