With increasing functionalities and high processing powers, smartphones battery backup is reduced over time and a need of portable power bank increased with the time. In this project we are going to ...

Fig. 1. Simplified Power Bank circuit. To understand the advantages of Active-Semi’s new ACT2800 family of Power Bank ICs, we have to look at a typical application. The Power Bank is essentially a ...

Power banks that support pass-through charging are useful because they let you charge both the power bank and the connected device simultaneously, which is a feature that not all power banks have. You ...

Feel like your power banks never last as long as you expected? The device might not be the one at fault. Just like smartphone batteries, there are a few things to consider with mobile power banks and ...

Power banks designed for phones don’t do much for laptops and tablets. But the RavPower RP-PB055 AC Power Bank packs a whopping 30,000mAh, and more than doubles a MacBook’s time between recharges.