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Free Power Bar

El Presidente

Beware The Milky Pirate!
Jan 3, 2011
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Picked mine up today. It's garish, but Function > Style (unless you're talking about my dancing).

AC Charging too. :)
Yea dad got his after I posted this on Facebook the other day, apparently they sold out on the 16th by the time he got there. I got my text but not had time to go into town. I'm sure it will come in handy on the festivals and camping Trips of the summer ha
 
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I'd presume no, but then I wouldn't have thought they'd be exploding either!

Have you used yours a lot?
We have. 2 and use every day.

I'd already raised them getting hot when charging a device with EE and both had been replaced before EE staff said it was normal.

Then they recalled a batch, but ours weren't the same batch. Recontacted EE who said they were fine. Now this.

Both however give interference whistles when charging one of our devices if you use the supplied short cable, but not using a standard length cable.

That suggests to me something shorting out, which hopefully hasn't damaged any devices out there otherwise this could get expensive for them.

And I was only looking at the USB chargers in Lidl yesterday wondering if I should get one!
 
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Wow. :(

I can't say I'd used mine much so if it was getting hot, I hadn't noticed.

With the £20 voucher, I'm probably going to pick up this: https://accessories.ee.co.uk/product/PWRB6WHKT/

2 outputs, and more than double the capacity of the EE power bar so it should do both me and the Mrs.

Maybe it's something you want to look at too?

Edit - I just re read the bit about the high powered whistling, we'd another member (unless it was you and my memory is pish!) who had issues with that and presumed it was their Nexus 5, not the power bar.
 
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