So I bought this power brick for a simple purpose, to power a USB fan to circulate air while I was camping in my car for a weekend. (Got a bin full of silica beads to remove moisture from the air)
The power bricks worked great! For about 1 minute to 7 minutes and 40 seconds……. Then they shut off the fan.
Shows fully charged, turns off. Charge it for 10 hours like manual says, still turns off after a bit. Still showing full charge….
I originally bought one of these and on day one, ran the fan for hours as a test, worked great. Charged it up overnight and went camping the next day. Noooooooope. Started turning off every couple minutes. About an hour of that and I'm done with it, just deal with foggy windows.
I get back home, try a few days of testing, charging/ect. Nope, now it wont work for longer than a minute at a time. Try turning the light on, that stays on forever, but the fan turns off after, you guessed it, 1 minute.
I order a replacement from Amazon thinking "Ok, defective unit, lets try again". I pull it out of the box, press power, it shows full charge. Want to guess how long it lasts?
1 minute…. Try the old one for S&G's, it manages to last 7 minutes and 40 seconds. I go back to the new one, 1 minute. I go back to the old one again, 1 minute….
I cant rely on this thing, returning right after I finish this review.
Another thing worth mentioning out of sheer weirdness, and I took a picture to prove. I read the entire manual, it says to contact customer service team, or "After Sales Support Team" and "we will help you as soon." Yes, the sentence ends after soon. Fine, translation error, ok.
But, there's zero emails, phone, address, any contact information at all for these "teams" to be able to 'help me as soon'. In fact, there's not a single company logo or name in the entire manual at all. It says "Powerbank" on the cardboard box it shipped in. Well, that's an item description, not a company.
The company should be Errbbic right? That's what this amazon page says. And that's what it says on the item itself on this page right? Even other customer pictures shows the item with text "Errbbic" printed on the item.
Take a close look at my picture, showing two recent products. That company text is missing. So I either received a knockoff product, or the company is realizing that the product doesn't work and is doing everything they can to distance themselves from it… Either way, returning.
Hopefully this helps others in managing their expectations. And I hope you all enjoyed the novel.
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