Here, carry THIS in your pocket. I dare you.

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Here, carry THIS in your pocket. I dare you.

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Pocket USB charger, "can discharge its stored power at 300 amps."

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That's a YouTube video waiting to happen. :shock:
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I wonder if these have anything to do with that 15 year old girl that was working on super capacity capacitors
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Do you think that charger is real?

Somehow I doubt it can supply 300 amps.
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The contributor writes science fiction. Hhhhmmmm wishful thinking.
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Structo wrote:Somehow I doubt it can supply 300 amps.
Sure it can. Briefly.
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DonMoose wrote:
Structo wrote:Somehow I doubt it can supply 300 amps.
Sure it can. Briefly.
Until the wires vaporize.

I t'ink maybe he means 300 MILLIamps?
down technical blind alleys . . .
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Leo_Gnardo wrote:
DonMoose wrote:
Structo wrote:Somehow I doubt it can supply 300 amps.
Sure it can. Briefly.
Until the wires vaporize.

I t'ink maybe he means 300 MILLIamps?
That's a thousand times less fun.
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I have 300 amps coming into the main breaker box in my house. The cable carrying all those amps is rather large. Way too big for my pockets.
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