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Got a bargain in the market… The lid/screen hinge is a wee bit loose, and the Windows 7 installed is flakey and crashey… but apart from that.
Author: gr33nonline
Quick Charge hacks
Burnt out USB charger
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It’s one of those horrifically dangerous 2.5×2.5×2.5 cm mini-cube singe port 1 A USB chargers. There were scorch marks on the base of the case. The circuit was very simple, a simplified SMPS on two small PCBs… which held into the cube casing with white silicone/glue – scratch that away and it is easy to extract the pair of PCBs
Crisps in baht
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A case study of the prices of packets of crisps in Thailand
High power USB charging station
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Whilst looking into the XTAR battery chargers, I came across the XTAR EU4, which offers QC3.0, 2 x USB 2.4A and USB C (PD) ports… although the QC and PD capability is a bit limited (i.e. QC has no 20V capability, and PD current is limited to 20V 2.25A (45W)), but not by much…
Is the XTAR product department confused?
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XTAR… I was looking into getting a upgrade to my agéd yet venerable XTAR VC2 (which was able to resurrect a dead LiPo, see Reviving a dead 18650 LiPo) and I was perusing the XTAR Official Store on AliExpress. Now, while the newer products are all really rather good, there seem to be some inconsistencies between the XTAR product range and the naming.
