New powerbanks with safer and longer-lasting battery technology
Australian consumer tech brand Laser has released a range of new Chargecore powerbanks with LiFePO4 (lithium iron phosphate) battery technology which is safer, lasts longer, and outperforms traditional lithium-ion batteries.
The company says the new SafeCharge Max range lasts on average five times longer than standard lithium-ion powerbanks, reducing both cost and electronic waste over time. They are available in three sizes: 20,000mAh, 10,000mAh, and 5000mAh, and come in a variety of colours.
LiFePO4 battery technology outperforms traditional lithium-ion batteries in several ways. It is engineered to be more resilient even in extreme temperatures, and it is thermally stable and non-combustible, which eliminate risks of overheating, fire, and explosion.
It also offers consistent power output, ensuring devices charge faster and more reliably, without the performance drop-off seen in other batteries. LiFePO4 batteries are also a safer choice for the environment because they contain no cobalt, nickel, or lead, and are fully recyclable at the end of their life cycle.
Key features at a glance
Temperature resilience: Performs better in temperature extremes compared with lithium-ion.
Recyclable: Uses phosphate instead of less recyclable metal oxides.
Non-toxic: No toxic cobalt, nickel, or lead.
Lighter: 70 per cent lighter than lead acid, and 30 per cent lighter than lithium-ion.
More charge cycles: Up to 5000 charge cycles.
Safer: Will not explode if dropped or punctured.
Long lasting: Five times longer than lithium-ion.
Fast-charging: 85 per cent in less than 90 minutes.
The Chargecore SafeCharge Max range is available from retailers such as Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Officeworks and Big W, as well as from
laserco.com.au
.
Prices range from $29.95 for the 5000mAh model, to $49.95 for the 10,000mAh, and $69.95 for the 20,000mAh.
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Indeed, it won its 1996 premiership the same year it came within a whisker of merging with Fitzroy. So you can't blame it now for looking primarily at dollar signs rather than a slightly better chance at merely grabbing four match points. North Melbourne has long been a pioneer in Australian football, going back more than 50 years when it nabbed the huge signature of Ron Barassi as coach then exploited the short-lived 10-year rule to recruit a clutch of established stars on its way to a first premiership. And more than half-a-century later, everything but nothing has changed. That is, the Roos are no longer anything like the powerhouse football team they became back then. But as a club, North Melbourne is still punching above its weight, trying to offset inherent disadvantages with some left-field thinking. Like on Sunday afternoon becoming the team to launch AFL football's newest venue, Hands Oval in Bunbury, 170 kilometres south of Perth, in a "home" game against a side actually from WA, West Coast. Taking calculated gambles in the hope of growth is indeed an old North Melbourne calling card. After the 10-year rule, a decade later in the mid-1980s, North was doing it again when, with newly-erected floodlights at the MCG, the Kangaroos stamped their brand as Friday night football specialists. But with innovation comes risk, as the club discovered in 1999 when it officially changed its primary name from North Melbourne to Kangaroos in a bid to become a "national team", playing four home games in Sydney and another in Canberra. It was a move fiercely resisted by the Swans, didn't inspire the surge in support for which the Roos had hoped, and perhaps even unintentionally assisted the AFL's push to move North Melbourne to the Gold Coast over 2006-07, a bid the Roos only just managed to prevent. As a smaller Victorian club, however, North Melbourne is constantly having to be "flexible and agile", as former AFL chief executive Gill McLachlan famously put it, in a commercial sense. The Roos have been playing three or four "home" games a season in Hobart since 2012. But with the arrival of a Tasmanian AFL team imminent, they've now struck a three-year deal with the West Australian government to play two "home" games in WA, which happen over the next two weekends. After Sunday against the Eagles in Bunbury, the following Saturday the Roos will play Fremantle in Perth. 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