Does that actually say 20 kilo milli-amp-hour capacity? That’s just 20 amp hours! You will get points taken off of your homework for not simplifying the units in the answer!
@jandrese@phendrick 20,000 of something tiny “that nobody understands anyway” looks so much more impressive than 20 of something that a good many of us know damn well is a useful amount.
@craigthom At least they didn’t do the Asian Marketing Approved Adjustment and pump it up to 20,000,000 instead. (The commonly-seen Amazon, ebay, Temu and AliExpress claims about flashlight output are truly ridiculous; one tester found that most of them fail to meet even 2% of their specified lumens.)
@craigthom@werehatrack I saw a description of the Chinese xanxia style of literature that explained that all the numbers are multiplied by a factor of a thousand to a million; instead of walking 20 or 200 miles, they walk 20,000 or 200,000,000 miles. I’m pretty sure the Chinese advertisers went to the same school.
I don’t particularly need a 20Ah power bank, and I sure as hell don’t need more LED lighting of this type, so I guess I’ll save $19.99 (plus tax) and not buy it.
Specs
Product: Limitless MegaLight 20kmAh Power Bank with Flood Light and Strap
Model: E315550012000, E315550180000
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Jul 10 - Monday, Jul 14
It is like a flood of lights being sold lately.
Not gunna lie… at first blush, I thought this was a golf bag.
/showme a golf bag that lights up
@haydesigner That would be a totally dope golf bag with that blue EL piping!
Does that actually say 20 kilo milli-amp-hour capacity? That’s just 20 amp hours! You will get points taken off of your homework for not simplifying the units in the answer!
@jandrese Keep in mind that marketeers like to bloviate.
@jandrese beat me to it
I kind of wonder if they did it deliberately to drive engagement in the comments
@jandrese I first read it as km-ah, which sounds confusingly energy dense.
@jandrese @phendrick 20,000 of something tiny “that nobody understands anyway” looks so much more impressive than 20 of something that a good many of us know damn well is a useful amount.
@jandrese @werehatrack Maybe they should convert to units involving calories, so evrryone would think, Yeah, I know those.
I understand how they got there, but I’ve never seen kmAh used as a unit. The first two cancel apparently making it the 20Ah battery.
20kmAh?!?!
That’s almost 20 Ah!!
“Limitless”?
But you can’t do calculus without limits and without calculus, no engineers!
@phendrick So it’s an integral part?
@ergomeh
That comment is both derivative and anti-derivative.
If only it had a fan, or a BT speaker, or a knife. A knife would be handy to fend of the lurking serial killer as you go to switch the breaker.
@ergomeh And could carry it to your dark bathroom as you pull the shower curtain back…
Somebody saw “20,000mAh”, the way most power banks do it, and thought that took up too much room, so they shortened “20,000” to “20k”.
@craigthom At least they didn’t do the Asian Marketing Approved Adjustment and pump it up to 20,000,000 instead. (The commonly-seen Amazon, ebay, Temu and AliExpress claims about flashlight output are truly ridiculous; one tester found that most of them fail to meet even 2% of their specified lumens.)
@craigthom @werehatrack I saw a description of the Chinese xanxia style of literature that explained that all the numbers are multiplied by a factor of a thousand to a million; instead of walking 20 or 200 miles, they walk 20,000 or 200,000,000 miles. I’m pretty sure the Chinese advertisers went to the same school.
For reference, 400 lumens is about the equivalent of a 40-watt old school bulb.
I’m not seeing the carabiner clip - hard pass.
I don’t particularly need a 20Ah power bank, and I sure as hell don’t need more LED lighting of this type, so I guess I’ll save $19.99 (plus tax) and not buy it.