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I have this really nifty Energizer battery, has a digital display that you press a button on the side and it tells you how charged it is. Two USB-A ports on top, one of those trapezoidal presumably USB-C ports on top, and a proper round USB-C port on the side.
I'm in Bethesda, Maryland right now at National Instututes of Health, and yesterday my iPad was a touch low, around 40%, at lunch, and I had another 4+ hours in the afternoon of appointments and reading while I was idle. So I plug in a C to C cable into the side port to charge my iPad.
And it drained the iPad trying to charge the battery!
Fortunately I noticed the alert on the iPad when it hit 10% and warned that power levels were low. Unfortunately I left my laptop at the hotel to save weight being schlepped around for 9 or 10 hours at the clinic. I made it through the day okay.
Tonight, in an attempt to determine if I just don't know how to use the battery or if it's mis-wired. I plugged in an A->C cable and plugged it into my iPhone 16. THAT seems to work properly! The battery is down 10% and the phone is up about 3%. A bit disproportionate, I admit.
So I finally looked up the web page for it. Heaven forbid it's on the energizer.com web site! I had to search for the model number, 'energizer ue10068'. And there it confirms the two USB-A ports on top are the output ports, the other two are the charging ports.
I would say that maybe someday I'll start reading manuals, but we know that ain't gonna happen. :-) At least I now definitely know what sort of cable I need to carry in my backpack if I expect to use my portable battery.
I'm in Bethesda, Maryland right now at National Instututes of Health, and yesterday my iPad was a touch low, around 40%, at lunch, and I had another 4+ hours in the afternoon of appointments and reading while I was idle. So I plug in a C to C cable into the side port to charge my iPad.
And it drained the iPad trying to charge the battery!
Fortunately I noticed the alert on the iPad when it hit 10% and warned that power levels were low. Unfortunately I left my laptop at the hotel to save weight being schlepped around for 9 or 10 hours at the clinic. I made it through the day okay.
Tonight, in an attempt to determine if I just don't know how to use the battery or if it's mis-wired. I plugged in an A->C cable and plugged it into my iPhone 16. THAT seems to work properly! The battery is down 10% and the phone is up about 3%. A bit disproportionate, I admit.
So I finally looked up the web page for it. Heaven forbid it's on the energizer.com web site! I had to search for the model number, 'energizer ue10068'. And there it confirms the two USB-A ports on top are the output ports, the other two are the charging ports.
I would say that maybe someday I'll start reading manuals, but we know that ain't gonna happen. :-) At least I now definitely know what sort of cable I need to carry in my backpack if I expect to use my portable battery.
