Gadgetory

batteries are important they basically run all of our portable electronics I've taken apart a couple power banks recently and they've all had these large sand drill achill lithium ion batteries inside today we have a newcomer a new contestant the crave plus that is a much thinner and sleeker profile today we're going to take this thing apart and see what makes it different from the larger syndra local batteries thanks to crêpe for sending this out now let's see what this thing is made of like you saw lithium batteries come in two basic shapes and sizes from the non-removable square batteries we see inside of cell phones to this umbilical batteries we see insides of charging banks electric cars or even that massive horn style battery system powering 30,000 homes in South Australia batteries are everywhere and lithium batteries are impressive lithium the element inside most of these batteries is found in ignorant water you know the ones from volcanoes but the largest producers of lithium in the world is chili which extracts it from huge pastel covered brine pools I'm guessing this aluminum covered crave plus power bank has a lithium polymer battery inside which is the same thing that we see inside of the most cell phones but fits a 10,000 milliamp hour battery life in the footprint about the same size as the iPhone 8 plus so as most electronics are moving over to USB see from the micro USB this Cray plus power charger has two ways of charging it has a micro USB in along with a USB C in which doubles as a USB see out to charger USB see electronics and a regular USB port for your iPhones and stuff it does have quick charging for those phones that have that enabled and it can be charging the power bank and a cell phone at the same time let's see what happens when we bump it up to two cell phones at the same time we use my Galaxy s8 and it looks like we are charging the power bank and charging two separate devices at the same time that's pretty sweet some power banks don't do that lithium-ion batteries have a relatively high energy density but are very safe unless punctured there are no visible around the aluminum enclosure but popping off the end caps revealed the circuit board two screws that I can undo to remove this silver cap and then I can slide the whole contraption out the backside of the aluminum housing these things aren't meant to be taken apart it's very tightly glued together and will never fall apart on its own as we can see this sleek looking power bank is using a dual pouch style battery two batteries stacked on top of each other which is a pretty efficient use of space and that's what crave is after making their power bank about the same size as an iPhone 8 plus but with three times the capacity so internally both of these batteries are built about the same way if you've ever seen the what's inside a Tesla battery made by the what's inside YouTube channel when they hack open one of these syndra local cells you can see the anode and cathode layers wrapped around each other the same build style as inside of these pouch batteries if you remember from my note 7 video when I tore open one of those batteries to see what it was made of it had the different anode cathode layers as well the reason Tesla uses these syndra local batteries inside of their cars is because they're way easy to manufacture and mass-produce and Tesla utilizes the wasted space around these syndra local batteries by putting in a cooling system which allows them to push the batteries beyond their normal limits for sleek portable high-capacity travel-size power banks though I think this pouch style is most ideal thanks to Craig for sending me out this Powerbank to review from the inside and take apart I'll toss a link down in the video description if you want to check out the current pricing or if you want to get one for yourself if you have any questions about power banks or batteries in general leave them down in the comments and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around