powkeyPortable Power Station with AC Outlet, 65W/110V External Battery Pack 24000mAh/88.8Wh Power Pack, Portable Power Source Supply Backup for Outdoor Tent Camping Home Office

My Powkey portable power station does exactly what I want it to do --- charge small devices when I don’t have easy access to an electrical outlet. The other power banks I own will only charge computers or other digital devices through USB, lightning or other digital ports. I bought this for the wall socket-style AC outlet that lets me charge a wide range of small gadgets. But it also offers two USB charging ports and a DC 12 port (one of those small, cylindrical jacks common on small electrical devices.)It’s very compact, somewhat larger than a typical paperback book. The Surface tablet that’s charging in this photo is smaller than an iPad, so the Powkey (which is closer to the camera) looks artificially large in the picture.The instructions that come with it aren’t great, but the operation is so intuitive that you really don’t need them. The main thing to remember is that this is only for small devices – under 65 watts. It will charge a tablet or small laptop. You can’t use it for a space heater. Your devices will obviously charge much more quickly if they have battery storage and you charge them when they are turned off. I can charge a small Surface tablet in a little over an hour and still have about 20% of the power station’s power remaining.It’s easy to see how well it's charging. A display on the front of the power station clearly shows how much power you have left. A side panel contains all the ports and two important buttons. The round button turns on the power station. A white switch must be shifted to “on” to charge your device. Turn this switch off when you are done to avoid draining the power station. It holds a charge really well in the “off” position. I didn’t use my power station for more than a week and it stayed fully charged.In addition to charging your power station from a wall charger, you can charge it from your car using the included “cigarette lighter” plug. That plug also has an adaptor to convert it to 12 V power.When I tried the car charger, the power station went from 10% to nearly full in about 3.5 hours of on-and-off driving. It seemed to charge more slowly the first two hours and very quickly toward the end.The main reason I bought this was to power a cat cam in an outbuilding that has zero Internet. This particular minicam does not use batteries. With the minicam plugged into the power station, I left the camera running on motion detection for 12 hours with a rather active cat. It used about 40% of the power station’s power in that time (it was not transmitting, just recording to a micro SD card).I highly recommend this for emergency lights or for situations where you need to temporarily plug in a small device in an area without an outlet.

I got this to use with a label printer in a warehouse.... it does not work for this. It does not have enough power to print on a thermal printer. But this does not mean this thing is not good because it is. I was able to use this to power everything else I tried. My laptop and a lamp... i know not much... But if i try some other i will post here. I have charged my phone and of couse it works fine for that. It is of course not rapid charging.

Works well. Long lasting battery and very durable. Unfortunately one of the usb ports has a slight defect. Other than that, it's quite a reliable source of power for mobile devices.

I ended up getting the neon green one, as opposed to the red and black one that I originally wanted because the green one was on sale, but ended up loving the bright green. Feels like a fun toy hanging around my house lol! I got this orignally to see if it might top off my ebike when out in the field and just might need that extra tiny bit to get me home. Come to find out it will actually work with a 2 amp charger. But not with my fast charger. No prob. I also ended up getting a dual batery ebike, and doubt will ever have that problem again, but the charger still lives with me and would easily come in handy if I ever did need it for that reason. All of that being said, this is a super handy charger, primarily due to the hosuehold AC outlet! Most chargers only have usb outputs, and its amazing how much handier having a proper AC OUTLET can be for dang near everything! Yes other power stations exist with AC outlets but they're usually at LEAST a hundred dollars more. So yes this is easily one of the best bangs for your buck for charging multiple devices, and being super handy in it's versatility. Also it isn't too huge or heavy, however I wouldn't bring it around with me as a portable edc phone charger necessarily, due to it's size, But I doubt that was it's intended purpose. This is more of a mini power station that costs as much as an average edc phone charger lol! So you could go to the park or camping and charge a multitude of things simultaneously. Oh ya, I also wouldn';t use this to run a blender or a drill haha, but again, that wasn't it's purpose. However, i don't doubt you could power a few smaller electronics for a little while. This is meant to be a super versatile, multi outlet charger, and that's how I use it and it fits the bill to a T!

First, let me say, I do like it. But there are pros and cons.The instructions say the first charge should take about four hours. When I first turned it on it said it was at about 60%. I used the wall charger and it took maybe a little over 2 hours to reach 100%, which is great. I have also discovered that it DOES support pass-through charging, even though it doesn’t say that anywhere (I’m doing it right now….it’s charging itself by wall charger while it’s charging this iPad and a rechargeable radio).The DC out is where I have issues with it. It comes with a female cigarette lighter plug that can be plugged into the 12 volt DC out. But the DC out does not supply enough wattage to power much of anything. I plugged the cigarette lighter adapter into the DC out and then plugged a small 150 watt inverter, with nothing plugged into the inverter, into the cigarette lighter (thinking maybe I could get more power by using an inverter). Nope. Plugging in just that little 150 watt inverter shut down the unit (overload protection I’m assuming). However, I have an AC to DC Converter, 100-240V to 12V 10A Power Adapter that has a cigarette lighter plug also on it. I plugged that into the AC plug of the unit and turned on the AC switch and the AC/DC converter powered on. So then I plugged the very same 150 watt inverter from before into the AC/DC converters cigarette lighter plug and the inverter worked! …..very odd. But again, I didn’t plug anything into the inverter. I’m thinking if I were to put a load of some kind on the inverter that the unit wold probably shut down again.

really handy works perfectly