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I hate that everyone and everything has a "app" now. I don't have one of these, I have some cables from Anker that are good but I don't want a "app" for a freaking power bank.

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>Selling power banks these days isn’t easy, as you can only stretch the reasonable limits of capacity and output wattage so far. Fortunately there is now a new game in town, with ‘smart’ power banks, like the Anker one that [Aaron Christophel] recently purchased for reverse-engineering. It features Bluetooth (BLE), a ‘smart app’ and a rather fancy screen on the front with quite a bit of information. This also means that there’s a lot to hack here beyond basic battery management system (BMS) features.

I hate that everyone and everything has a "app" now. I don't have one of these, I have some cables from Anker that are good but I don't want a "app" for a freaking power bank. Archive: https://archive.today/LNGFo From the post: >>Selling power banks these days isn’t easy, as you can only stretch the reasonable limits of capacity and output wattage so far. Fortunately there is now a new game in town, with ‘smart’ power banks, like the Anker one that [Aaron Christophel] recently purchased for reverse-engineering. It features Bluetooth (BLE), a ‘smart app’ and a rather fancy screen on the front with quite a bit of information. This also means that there’s a lot to hack here beyond basic battery management system (BMS) features.

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Since governments love regulations, here's one: appliance makers need to have a 20 year pro rated warranty. I like it since it means they can build it anyway they want, but they're on the hook for 20 years.

It's either that or they need to design them with user replaceable parts that you can buy for 20 years.

[–] • 1 pt

Strange since my brothers compressor in his 9 yr old fridge went out, and they don’t make it. I said it’s a compressor, most any will work. He said sure the junk yard can do that.