Last year I did a post on my portable power station here (scroll to bottom half of post), and I'm thrilled to report the Yilon AC Charger's USC-C port will fast charge my new Motorola Moto G7 Plus as fast as the charger that came with the phone - full up in ~ 30min.
After waiting 18 months I finally snagged this $325 (original price) phone for $120 unlocked at Best Buys ($65 with an AT&T contract). As it doesn't support CDMA I switched to the virtual carrier RedPocket, which is buying time from T-Mobile, the carrier providing the cell service. My pre-paid (no contract) RedPocket service is unlimited talk, text and 1G of data for ten bucks. Yup, you read that right, $10/mo! I transferred my phone number and while RedPocket warned it would take 2 days to 2 weeks, Verizon had it done in ~ 2 seconds. Nice!
Unfortunately, the LIPO battery-based chargers I bought will NOT fast charge my phone, or anything else, because while they can charge it, they can't speed charge it, so it takes hours. Thus I'm now looking for such a battery-based speed charger.
You may recall I bought two separate devices is because I want the AC charger to be able to charge all of the stuff on my bike AND the LIPO charger's battery AT THE SAME TIME, so when I have access to an AC outlet I can charge my devices and my portable charger. This allows me to ride all day if I want with only one AC outlet on hand.
This Anker 10k MAh Power Bank comes close, but as you can see, it takes over 4hrs to fully recharge. My phone wouldn't take the whole 10k, as its battery is only 3k, but it would probably take 4k (a lossy process) and even if just topping off, this Anker would take over an hour. I'd much rather have a 5k unit that fully recharges in 30 min from the Yilon AC charger I already have, so I will keep looking, but if you're training for a Double Century or a long cross country tour, 10k might be nice, and maybe even something bigger like a 25k MAh. Note that with this Anker you'd need a 3:1 "Y" splitter cable, and 4-5 would be better, for charging low-power bike stuff, saving the C-to-C speed charging port for your phone. Amazon seems to be churning them out like hot cakes.
Just a heads-up. When the sun starts to set and you're still not "there", this stuff all becomes a LOT more important. You need those lights to work all day in Day-Flash mode to keep you safe, at night to see and be seen, and to phone home to give loved ones a new ETA and status report.
NOTE: I originally tried to go with a $15 T-Mobile plan directly (not via RedPocket), made an appointment at the local store, and then sat there for 20 minutes while they fiddled with their system until finally reporting the required website was down and they couldn't do anything useful for me, directing me to the Target store across the parking lot. Driving home I decided there's no point in having local "support" that can't get anything useful done for me, and decided putting in my own SIM card couldn't be THAT difficult. It wasn't. I had to wait 2 days for USPS delivery for the SIM card, but everything went smoothly and RedPocket's online support, which was asked some pointed questions BEFORE buying the service, was pretty good. RedPocket has plans as low as $2.50 a month.
