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Tired of having to charge your power bank external batteries overnight to use them? Then you're going to love the Real Graphene G-Lite 5000 mAh power bank that can charge 0-100% in 18 minutes. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ talks about why graphene is such a cool material, explores the strengths of the Real Graphene G-Lite charger, and tests it out with a variety of products, including a Google Pixel 4a, a Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G and an Apple MacBook Pro.
Check it all out at https://www.RealGrapheneUSA.com/
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Is this the world's fastest charging power bank
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Hmm, let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this
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This unassuming little metal object is the real graphene G-light fast-charging power bank
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Now, they claim it's the world's fastest charging power bank, and it's a little confusing because what they mean by that is this device
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self charges really fast. Now, however fast it will charge your other products or devices is a
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function of their ability to handle charging. Now, this does work with PD powered delivery system
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So theoretically, devices should charge pretty quick, and I have some pretty cool numbers in
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just a little bit. But let's start with this itself. So this is made out of graphene
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which actually is a very new product or material, and it has a lot of interesting characteristics
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Here's a sort of basic graph they have on their website, but it's five times more charge life cycles than lithium from a battery perspective
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It helps keep the battery cool, though it still warms up when you're charging the device itself
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And it is tougher and more protective. So it has a really great hand feel
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It's a really cool material. And the device itself is, as you can see, basically the size of a smartphone
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In fact, here's an iPhone 11 Pro. Here is the G light
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So you can see it's about the same size. So 5,000 milliampower, they're coming up with bigger ones
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That'll be out very soon. But I got this one, which I think actually is kind of the perfect size
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It has on the bottom, USBC, and that's also how you charge this device
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And USB3.0, which lets you charge, plug in really any cable you want and charge
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And then there are four LEDs to give you its charging status and a button on the side that you push
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And you can see how charged the unit is. So this has three out of four buttons or three out of four lights illuminated
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So it's about 75% charged. So what makes this the world's fastest charger is that this can go from zero to fully charged with a 60 watt charging source
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You can plug it in and this will get fully charged in 18 minutes
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So that means if you have the ability to charge it while you at lunch you can fully recharge this and then use it over the afternoon or in the evening to actually recharge all your other devices So that pretty cool Now Real Graphene also makes available this and this is a 60 wall charger
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It will charge your computer if you have a computer that wants 60 or 61 watts like a MacBook Pro
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This works great for that, and it's obviously smaller than the Apple unit
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but it's really designed to pair with one of their power banks
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So it is an additional charge. We'll get to that at the very end. But basically, plug this into the wall
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and the power bank includes this nice little, I don't know, what is that
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two-foot USBC to USBC. Plug this end of the wall. Plug the cable in
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Plug the other end of the cable into that. And you are ready to charge
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And 18 minutes later, it is gone from completely dead to completely full
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There's nothing to complain about that. Then you can take that very same cable
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And if you have a modern phone, like, for example, the Google Pixel 4A
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you can literally plug it in, and I am now charging the phone
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So, pretty easy. Now, let's see. So dimensions. This is six inches by three inches
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by half an inch thick. It is seven ounces, so it is relatively heavy, but I mean, all of these power banks
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they all actually end up having some weight because of the fact that they have to have a battery inside of them
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So here's what I did as I thought, hmm, well, the only way to really test a power bank is to charge different things
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So I charge different things. So let's see. So I'll start with the iPhone 11 Pro
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This charged the most slowly. This gave me, or plugging it into this, gave me a 42
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percent charge in an hour. So Apple seems to be enjoying the slow charge. I don't know. Maybe the iPhone
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12 will have a different charging system. That'd be nice because other phones, for example, the Google
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Pixel 4A, this was an absolute rock star. This got 100% charged from dead to fully charged in one
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hour using this device. So props to Google for making that be a fast charging device. And then I
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thought hmm well since I already have this this is the Samsung Galaxy note 20
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Ultra 5G with its big honking bunch of cameras and everything and I thought
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well let see how fast this will charge and this in one hour got a 72 charge so it not quite as good as the pixel but it really honestly almost double this prim charging speed of the iPhone So there you go With any of these devices it charges pretty well
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And then I thought, hmm, what else can I do with a USBC charging device? And I thought, you know
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it really isn't supposed to do this, but let's plug it into the MacBook Pro and see what happens
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Now, in the system information, as you can see, it says, no, you're not charging
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You're only getting 30 watts. So this is putting out 30 watts, which is pretty impressive
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You're only getting 30 watts. You're not charging. So what the heck are you doing
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And I thought, yeah, whatever, dude. And I closed my computer and I left it for an hour
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And it charged 25% in an hour off of this running at 30 watts, which is like, I don't think
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it's supposed to do that, but it's really cool that it does. So in a complete crisis, if you were really just down to the wire and you really needed to charge
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you could use this with your computer. And admittedly, it's a slow charge
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But it is a positive change in the battery life of your device, which is pretty sweet
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So all in all, really interesting material, super fast to charge this
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Though, you know, again, your devices will charge at the speed they charge at, which, you know, is not going to
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this does not make anything. charge faster than it otherwise would, but that's okay. It has a long, long life because of the
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graphene that they're using and it has an interesting feel. It looks super modern on the minus side
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Yeah, you need to use a 60 watt charger or above. I tried it with an 87 watt charger and that
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worked too, though I'm not sure it was recommended, but I basically just took my MacBook Pro charging
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wire and plugged it into this and it could handle it and it did heat up a little bit, but
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It's the nature of charging and it charged all the way. So that was great
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So really flexible, lots of power. Wish that it had built in wires because it's a little tedious to have to carry around separate cords
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Maybe that'll be in Generation 2 and yes, I would be willing to have it be maybe 20% wider so that I could pull out, for example, a lightning plug or pull out a USBC wire directly rather than having to have a separate wire
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But really, that's my only complaint. The fact that it has the button to let you quickly see charge level and it has both USBA and USBC super flexible and light easy to carry around works great with various devices especially the pixel Holy cow Google you have nailed the charging thing Apple please go talk to Google to figure out how to make the phones charge faster
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So that's really all I've got. Lots to like here. Yeah, it's a really crowded space
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but this is a really interesting entrant because of the technology that they're using
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So if you're tired of having your power bank be dead and then never being able to charge it, well, this is one that's going to charge super fast
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Again, would it be cool if it had little wall prongs that pop right out
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Yeah, but then it would probably have to be at least three times as thick to actually be able to have an onboard 60 watt charger
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So having it be a separate device, and there are smaller ones out there that push out 60 watts
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but having it be a separate device is an acceptable, though, you know, somewhat of a drag
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So it goes. So really all this left to talk about is the price, and they're running a pretty good sale right now on their website
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What other devices should I have tried to charge? But I figure I kind of covered it pretty well with a computer and three different kinds of phones
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All right. This is the Real Graphene G-Light, fast-charge power bank, and it's $8999 on sale for $5999 at Real GrapheneUSA.com. Definitely worth checking out. And when you buy it, you can opt to also get the Real Graphene 60-watt wall plug charger. And this is an additional 1999. So together, it is somewhat spendy
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But if you're tired of having your devices run out of juice, this is your solution and definitely worth checking out
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And with that, I think I'm going to go ahead and continue charging this Note 20
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Let's just plug it in. And there we go. It's charging, as you can see
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And that means I'll catch you in my next video
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