Power bank teardown

[Jan]

We cracked open two cheap power banks — which exposed a serious risk

After the disappointing performance of cheap power banks bought from South African stores, MyBroadband opened them up to see what was inside.

The first power bank we cracked open was the Rakista unit, which cost R70.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Cheap chinese junk will ALWAYS be cheap Chinese junk!

 

[Bighit]

I love these type of articles, keep it up!

 

[PaulGherkin]

I love these type of articles, keep it up!

Then you'd love the work I did tearing down the DSTV WiFi connector.

 

[Bighit]

Then you'd love the work I did tearing down the DSTV WiFi connector.

I did, didn't know it was your article!

 

[PaulGherkin]

I did, didn't know it was your article!

It wasn't published here, @Jan did an article on a newer USB based unit.
The older one was a crippled AirTies unit

 

[DStvNothingOn]

its no BigClive.com tear down, ill say that much

 

[gimpex]

its no BigClive.com tear down, ill say that much

More like unscrewing

 

[DTBA]

We cracked open two cheap power banks — which exposed a serious risk

After the disappointing performance of cheap power banks bought from South African stores, MyBroadband opened them up to see what was inside.

The first power bank we cracked open was the Rakista unit, which cost R70.

Jan do you mind opening the other brands as well?

 

[DTBA]

Jan do you mind opening the other brands as well?

Or did you take them for yourself XD

 

[PaulGherkin]

Here is an example of a teardown I quite like:

 

[RayFre]

Is it just me or does the "solar panel" on the SOLOR power bank look more like a LED Array for emergency lighting?

 

[supersunbird]

Is it just me or does the "solar panel" on the SOLOR power bank look more like a LED Array for emergency lighting?

I think it is a LED light (mentioned in the features), and there is another panel not shown clearly that is the solar, need a better photographer it seems,.

 

[bef0k]

Incorrect device mAh ratings are a fraud perpetrated on the unsuspecting public. Plain and simple.

 

[NowNow]

its no BigClive.com tear down, ill say that much

At least we're getting local tear downs. It's about time actually. Moar plox!

In all fairness, BigClive is more like a reverse engineer than a basic teardown.

 

[chrisc]

I’ve dismantled some 4Tb SSDs sold on several Chinese websites, incl alibaba.com. Can post pics, but it’s basically 2 x 2Tb USB drives soldered neatly to a board and placed into an N.2 external case and what says is a USB 3.1 to USB-C cable

They appear to work on it and I copied 80Gb of music albums. A bit slow, it managed 5 mb/sec. So nowhere near USB 3.1

A very serious problem came accessing the folders. All the folders were there, but none had any content. Looking at drive properties got an error. Chkdsk /f got hundreds of errors

I got the impression that there was a very tiny buffer on the device, since it frequently showed 0 bytes speed