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I do have some failure to report. We have 4 of their 5 port chargers and 1 of the 6 port, each ordered at different dates. Curiously two of the 5 port charger
by rogerbinns 10y ago
I do have some failure to report. We have 4 of their 5 port chargers and 1 of the 6 port, each ordered at different dates. Curiously two of the 5 port chargers have had the fifth port stop working after a while (the first 4 work fine).
(I haven't bothered chasing it up with customer service since I don't know which unit corresponds to which purchase date, or cared enough.)
- davb 10y agoInterestingly, I had exactly the same thing happen with an EasyAcc five port USB charger. I wonder if Anker and EasyAcc use a common component on those products, one which is prone to this sort of failure.
- ZoFreX 10y agoOne of the EasyAcc 5 port chargers looks literally identical to the Anker one. I suspect at least one of them is re-badging?
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoOne of the things I noted recently is that I have purchased RAVPower, Aukey, Anker, and OMAKER products which all came in nearly an identical packaging style. I suspect many of them use the same products or same distribution vendor which whitelabels the products for them.
- eropple 10y agoI used to notice this a lot more often for Anker, but their stuff seems to be diverging. I wonder if they bootstrapped from some of that stuff but have been moving more towards their own products.
- peterclary 10y agoI understand that each port has a circuit-breaker which can be reset (by unplugging everything and powering it off and on again, or something like that). EDIT: Apologies, it looks like they used to use fuses before they switched to resettable circuit breakers. Here's a Reddit post where somebody shares an (excellent IMHO) customer service email from Anker on the issue: https://m.reddit.com/r/perktv/comments/2fd00z/anker_dead_port_update/ https://m.reddit.com/r/perktv/comments/2fd00z/anker_dead_por...