Hey,
Just wondering if anyone has found a solution for using a powerbank when the battery is low and can’t get to power outlet?
My powerbank does not work so just wondering if anyone else has worked sonething out.
Thanks in advance.
Which Powerbank?
Most have a USB-C Port, but they had a to low Voltage.
There are more information:
I have a baseus 65w 20,000 mah power bank that can essentially fully charrge the laptop even under light to medium loads like watching netflix. it’s heavy at 1.02 pounds and it only has one usbc port but it’s cheap. If you have a bigger budget there’a also this which is on sale for 80 USD
My powerbank is not an option as it does not work.
However I need one that will charge the laptop while still working, I am a photographer and sometimes with sorting then uploading the images the battery can not make it.
So my question is has anyone found one that will work?
Thanks for the response. Looking in to those but they have some really negative reviews so I am wary.
How long have you been using yours?
i’ve had it for six months and used it with zero issues you don’t have to go with my specific one but just looking for a 65W+ PD 20,000 MAH powerbank and make you sure the single port is 65w not three combined ports equaling 65w if yk what I mean
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I have a Anker 737 24k 140w output that I use with other laptops (waiting for my FW13), it has about 67Wh of usable capacity, so, it should fully charge the FW13 and have some energy to spare.
I would recommend to look for a powerbank with at least 100W usb-c output, my experience with 65w ones they get too hot and turn off.
Once my Framework 13 arrives (September batch) I’ll update here.
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That’s good to know. I have the Anker 737 87w version. I haven’t tried it yet because my FW13 hasn’t arrived yet. I will be testing it out as I bought it for travel that I start in January. So I’m testing everything I’m buying a few times before packing/stowing it away. I may be in trouble with the 87w. I never thought about overheating.
EDIT: I was mistaken on which bank I have. This is what I have. However, as stated, I haven’t tested it yet.
You have the 737 AC charger, correct?
Mine is the powerbank, Anker does not help when they call everything 737…
I read somewhere that the FW13, at least the AMD one can draw 100w, giving enough power to charge the battery and use the CPU at full power, with a 65w charger will not leave much power budget if the battery needs to be charged.
That happens on my current laptop, that only pulls 65w from the USB-c port, when it needs charging, the CPU/GPU steals power budget from the battery.
The Anker 737 Powerbank, should charge the laptop fully, if not in use.
I’ll test this behavior once my Framework laptop arrives.
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Thanks for all this research, I’ll read it…
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The 60W charger that FW supply for the FW 13 delivers 20V at up to 3A when charging the FW 13.
My guess is that if the FW 13 can accept more, it does it by staying at 20V and accepting up to 5A, but that’s just a guess, it could be more flexible than that.
I presume the FW 180W charger for the FW 16 does 36V at 5A, but again that’s also just a guess.
It does.
Framework’s 180W USB-C power adapter offers 5v, 9v, 15v at 3A, and 20v, 28v, 36v at 5A. Plus AVS (adaptive voltage scaling) 15v-36v 5A. Youtube review & test
ZMI 20 or CUKTECH 15/20/30
Not under stock conditions and that was also not drawn that was package power, what was actually drawn in this case was a lot more.
That is exactly that makes my numbers pretty much irrelevant to this discussion, they can only be achieved if you actively try to really hard (you have to really go out of your way and do some pretty sketchy stuff to bypass that). The stock config will limit you to less than 30W sustained pretty much no matter what you do.
Above 45W powerbank should be able to get a bit of charging in even under full load. I did test a whole bunch of power-banks myself during the pd mess with the embedded controller and now all pd power-banks I have work just fine down to the 18W ones, 5V unfortunately still doesn’t work without kick-starting.
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From my experience using a laptop that can only draw 60w (my old one), only powerbanks capable of 100w here worth of using, and the 65w and 45w ones were incapable of delivering the rated power for more than 15 minutes. They always overheated.
From my experience there are bad ones in all size classes, I have 100W ones that can barely sustain 60 and 18W ones that’ll do 20W all day long. It’s less about the size and more about how it’s done. The one I mainly carry for laptop use is 65W and it’ll do that till it’s empty.
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Important not the connect quality and price too hard though, some of my best performers are the cheapest of the cheap chinesium and I have dealt with some pretty awful “premium” “brand name” ones.
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