{"id":18228,"date":"2019-04-28T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T22:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=18228"},"modified":"2019-04-28T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:58:12","slug":"gospace-supercharger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/gospace-supercharger\/","title":{"rendered":"GOSPACE Supercharger \u2014 A Battery and Charger in One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"#title#\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GOSPACE-Supercharger-showing-flipout-wall-connector.jpg\" alt=\"GOSPACE Supercharger showing flipout wall connector\" width=\"300 \" height=\"568\" \/><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\">GOSPACE Supercharger Wall Charger\/Battery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to do something I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve done before, and that&#8217;s review a piece of hardware that I don&#8217;t own. On Friday night my buddy Ron brought over something I got to play with and I was really intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>He bought the GOSPACE Supercharger from <a href=\"https:\/\/getgospace.com\/super-charger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">getgospace.com<\/a>. The GOSPACE Supercharger is a wall charger but <em>also<\/em> functions as a battery pack. I think he bought it because he has a Tesla and they call their chargers Super Chargers!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI got to play with the GOSPACE Supercharger for a short while, so let&#8217;s go through its many virtues.<\/p>\n<p>The GOSPACE Supercharger looks almost identical to the charger blocks Apple sells with all of their Mac notebooks. It&#8217;s a white square with the removable flip-out charger that&#8217;s compatible with your Apple extension cable. In size, it&#8217;s about halfway between the 87W 15&#8243; MacBook Pro charger and the 60W 13&#8243; MacBook Pro charger. Being nerds, we weighed all three of them. The big-girl charger from Apple came in at 273g, the GOSPACE Supercharger at 207g and the little-girl MacBook Pro charger came in at 179g.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"#title#\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GOSPACE-Supercharger-charging-ports.jpg\" alt=\"GOSPACE Supercharger charging ports\" width=\"250 \" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\">GOSPACE Supercharger Charging Ports, Display and Power Button<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On one side of the GOSPACE Supercharger you&#8217;ll find all of the charging ports. There are 3 high-power USB ports all rated at 5V, 2.4A. 2 of the ports are UBS-A and one is USB-C. The device also sports a gorgeous digital display telling you the charge capacity of the generous 10,000mAh battery.<\/p>\n<p>The GOSPACE Supercharger has a power button on the side which is necessary for its final trick. This device is <em>also<\/em> a Qi charger! One side has a symbol to tell you which side is the Qi charging side. On all batteries, you don&#8217;t want the wireless charging portion to be on all of the time, hence the need for a power button on the GOSPACE Supercharger.<\/p>\n<p>Lest you think you can&#8217;t use the GOSPACE Supercharger because you&#8217;re not in the US, I want to make sure to explain that it has interchangeable plugs that include Europe, the UK and Australian configurations along with the US plug.<\/p>\n<aside style=\"font-size: 1em; float: right; width: 40%;\">Charge TypeCharge LevelGOSPACE Supercharger Options<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>AC Charger<\/td>\n<td>5V 3A (15W)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Type-C output<\/td>\n<td>5V 2.4A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2 USB-A<\/td>\n<td>5V 2.4Amp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Qi Charging<\/td>\n<td>5W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Battery<\/td>\n<td>10,000 mAh, 50Wh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<thead><\/thead>\n<\/table>\n<\/aside>\n<p>I asked Ron to do a couple of tests for me. He verified that without plugging the GOSPACE Supercharger into the wall, so using it on battery alone, he could charge a 10.5&#8243; iPad Pro and an iPhone 8 both via Lightning to the 2 USB-A ports. He then added his iPhone X on top to wirelessly charge it and all 3 devices continued to charge.<\/p>\n<p>Ron doesn&#8217;t have any USB-C devices (yet) but acting as a battery, the GOSPACE Supercharger can deliver 50Wh of charge. Since this battery supports USB-C charging you won&#8217;t have the loss I talked about in AC\/DC conversion that I&#8217;ve talked about with other batteries. The 13&#8243; MacBook Pro has a 55-58Wh battery in it (depending on whether you have the Touch Bar model or not), so that means you could theoretically nearly charge it with the GOSPACE Supercharger.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"#title#\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GOSPACE-Supercharger-international-adapters.jpg\" alt=\"GOSPACE Supercharger international adapters\" width=\"300 \" height=\"425\" \/><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\">International Adapters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The thing that intrigues me the most about the GOSPACE Supercharger is that it can replace the traditional charger you carry with you already for your phone or tablet . You can probably charge a USB-C laptop as well, but it&#8217;s only a 15W charger so it will be slower than the charger that came with your laptop. For example, even the 12&#8243; MacBook and the 13&#8243; MacBook Air use a 30W power adapter. If you&#8217;ve got a Pro, the 13&#8243; is 61 Watts and the 15&#8243; is 87W. It may do if you&#8217;re charging overnight but it&#8217;s definitely not going to be high speed for the bigger devices.<\/p>\n<p>As a charger, it can replace at least some of what you carry already You can even replace one of the batteries you inevitably carry with you. And all of this in a device that only weighs around 200g which is less than half a pound!<\/p>\n<p>The only downside to the GOSPACE Supercharger I can find is that they don&#8217;t sell it on Amazon so I can&#8217;t give you an Amazon Affiliate Link. I&#8217;ll have to send you directly the GOSPACE website at <a href=\"https:\/\/getgospace.com\/super-charger\/\">getgospace.com\/&#8230;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And one more thing &#8230; it only costs $59US!<\/p>\n<h4>Anker PowerCore Fusion Power Delivery Battery &amp; Charger<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"#title#\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Anker-PowerCore-Fusion-1000mAh.jpg\" alt=\"Anker PowerCore Fusion 1000mAh\" width=\"300 \" height=\"\" \/><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\">Anker PowerCore Fusion 1000mAh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, two more things. My only hesitation about this product is that we don&#8217;t know anything about this company. They have a Twitter account with 22 tweets since 2017. Their products don&#8217;t sell anywhere but from their own website. They might be 100% legit and the charger itself may be of very high quality meeting the specs for charging devices to be safe. They&#8217;re simply an unknown at this point.<\/p>\n<p>If you want an alternative to the GOSPACE Supercharger, Apple sells a similar product made by Anker, a well-known and respected brand. It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/product\/HMQD2ZM\/A\/anker-powercore-fusion-power-delivery-battery-and-charger?fnode=0be1349a12d9655a8e7e5d839f92398276896229746bca931de4c364c17adc8d71fcdd7bb2f68a2d4d32abd00e1070d2ef9da72182af8a7b6e88f94094280a126138589290c259a73d2f8d50ce990ed1fd37b3d27741f232b276b84c5a69e2fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anker 10000mAh PowerCore Fusion Power Delivery Battery &amp; Charger<\/a>, and it&#8217;s only available at Apple. You can buy the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IPIqxp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5000mAh version of it on Amazon<\/a>, but not the 10000mAh model. It looks just like an Apple wall charger, but doesn&#8217;t have the removable US plug and doesn&#8217;t come with international plugs.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t gotten to play with the Anker device so I&#8217;m just telling you about it to consider an alternative. The Anker is $100 vs the $59 GOSPACE. The Anker a 42W wall charger which is Higher than GOSPACE but it also weighs 25% more than the GOSPACE. It has official Power Delivery (where the GOSPACE specs never mention PD). It only has 1 USB-A port, but it has Anker&#8217;s IQ charging. It doesn&#8217;t have Qi charging while the GOSPACE Supercharger does.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to throw this out there, not because I expect there to be anything wrong with the GOSPACE charger, but to give you an alternative that might make some of you sleep better at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; GOSPACE Supercharger Wall Charger\/Battery I&#8217;m going to do something I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve done before, and that&#8217;s review a piece of hardware that I don&#8217;t own. On Friday night my buddy Ron brought over something I got to play with and I was really intrigued. He bought the GOSPACE Supercharger from getgospace.com. 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