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I'm a pessamist, personally, I avoid the Chinesium on Amazon. I've seen enough Big Clive teardowns of cheap electronics to know that not everything is built the same on the inside, despite outward appearances. For Amazon particularly, the reviews of cheap battery chargers etc terrify me, along the l...

Broadly related, I picked up a power supply from IKEA (SJÖSS 2 port USB-C) a few weeks ago for £10 - having only ever had the USB power supplies that come bundled with phones etc. Extremely happy with the purchase, I've measured 2 android phones charging at 20W each simultaneously; there are suffici...

We have this one sitting in our hallway after hearing Andy's horror story about the LED light fire. https://www.safelincs.co.uk/britannia-p50-2ltr-water-mist/ It is less than 6 feet from any of our rooms (small flat) and is primarily a way to help us get downstairs and out safely. I ought to add a ...

...is manually updated and some of the models its lists are discontinued, while it completely misses some recent contenders... Yes it's certainly not perfect but it's about as good a compilation of information I've found, it's more comprehensive for 1x 18650 and 1x 21700 lights. ...any battery powe...

I've had a ?40W solar panel gathering dust in the shed after buying for a previous car which was left for long periods and used to drain the battery. I found this device which will allow it to charge 3x 18650 cells directly then be used as a powerbank: https://www.waveshare.com/solar-power-manager-c...

Hmm specs say 2x 18650 cells but also description says built in battery, so one of them is wrong. Powerbank functionality nice, so long as you're willing to tolerate no light but a charged phone (!). Good that it has warm and cold white LED Settings, nothing irks me more thank horrible blue glare fr...

Thanks Andy! This was pretty much the conclusion I had come to but wanted a sanity check. Now that end of summer is rapidly approaching, I was pondering backup heating solutions given I feel I'm currently lacking in this department, in my research I found Zibro paraffin heaters and noticed with inte...

Couldn't find a thread on this, so thought best to make a new thread. Having had a good shed tidy last weekend, I've been thinking about the lifespan of some of the fuel I have stored. [*]5L of Petrol Mostly for the mower (I don't routinely keep spare fuel for the car, but I should, I guess I should...

There's a great website here that allows you to filter torches/flashlights as the yanks call them by parameter, it so happens that "powerbank feature" is an option. http://flashlights.parametrek.com/index.html?features=powerbank One thing I would caution, the implementation of USB-C protoc...

A "cheap and moderately cheerful" suggestion would be a Surge or Wave clone from china. I've handled the Daicamping DL30 (I think), for the price (£25-£30) it's okay, pliers are good but there are a few wobbly bits and I dont think the steel is particularly high quality. The biggest advant...