Anker PowerCore+ 26800mAh PD 45W with 60W PD Charger, Power Delivery Portable Charger Bundle for USB C MacBook Air/Pro/Dell XPS, iPad Pro, iPhone 14/13/12 Series, and More

My review is a tad specific, but I suspect others might be wondering the same. So here it is. The Canon EOS R8 is a professional grade mirrorless camera with some intentional feature gaps to keep the price reasonable enough for a hobbyist to jump into professional-grade mirrorless photography, w/out breaking the bank (and also to keep the camera delightfully light and easy to carry.) One painful "feature gap" for the EOS R8, was the choice to require the small & light low-capacity Canon LP-E17 lithium-ion battery, which can quickly drain out under heavy shooting or video. Most R8 owners will opt for a 2nd (or 3rd) battery, which I did, but I wanted a solution that would allow me to setup 12 hour time-lapse video captures, or film extra long videos where stopping to change the battery is just not possible.Enter the Anker PowerCore+ 26800mAh. Once charged it can be connected to the Canon EOS R8 (on Firmware 1.4.0) via USB-C AS LONG AS the camera is loaded with A GENUINE CANON LP-E17 Lithium-Ion Battery pack. In this configuration, if the camera is powered OFF the Anker PowerCore+ will CHARGE the LP-E17 in the camera body. (So YEA!, I now have a way to charge my camera batteries in the field away from a power outlet!) But even better, if you turn the camera ON the battery meter in the viewfinder will turn grey and the camera will draw exclusively from the externally connected Anker PowerCore+. In this configuration you can shoot hours or days long time-lapse videos or shoot extended video; your only limit being space on the SD card, or the camera's operating temperature.But there is more: The Anker PowerCore+ 26800mAh came WITH a USB-C 60w switching AC adapter to charge the PowerCore, which takes about 2-3 hours to fully charge. (Personally, I use a lower wattage AC adapter, to gently slow-charge it. AND I ever charge above 80% or allow it to drain below 20% to preserve the PowerCore's design capacity. Read online regarding the proper care of all Lithium batteries if you want to learn more.)Once charged, I was able to fully recharge my 13" laptop and still had enough left over to charge my smartphone. PLEASE NOTE, neither my laptop or smartphone had particularly large capacity batteries, so your mileage may vary. But I still found this impressive.Lastly, I discovered I was ALSO able to connect the included Anker 60w USB-C switching AC adapter, directly to my Canon EOS R8 (on fw 1.4.0), and as long as a genuine battery was loaded, I could either charge the camera battery on the OFF position, run the camera straight from the 60w switching adapter plugged into an electrical outlet INDEFINITELY when the camera was powered ON.CAUTION/PRUDENCEBut please to all the Canon Camera owners out there. Even though the online Canon Answer 1043209 (Document PI624) indicates that "Operation of the following products has been verified." (Anker PowerCore+ 26800 PD 45W*1,2) --- To be on the safe side, it is NOT my intent to use it regularly as a primary power solution. I'm sticking with a couple Canon LP-E17 batteries charged via the Canon wall-charger. But when need demands, the PowerCore+ is going to offer options I would have not had otherwise.Charging and operating the Anker PowerCore is pretty simple, and the included AC charger and USB-C cable shows that Anker wanted to provide a powerbank that would be useful straight out of the box. The meshed carrying bag was a nice touch; it hangs perfectly from my tripod hook. I am very pleased.So that's my review. Great product. It solved a power problem for me, and I suspect it will will be very helpful for other on-the-go device charging scenario's. If you are on the fence, I encourage you roll the dice on this. I suspect it won' disappoint.(An while I have your attention) GENERAL LITHIUM BATTERY CARE TIPS:This is a great powerbank. But it was an investment, and its requires special CARE, which very few folks think about when it comes to Lithium rechargeable battery packs. This goes for cellphones, laptops, and even Electric Vehicles: When it comes to this battery pack, I recommend you store it half-drained when its not being used regularly, and to be careful to USE it while ONLY if its charged between 25% and 95% charge. Though although its not THAT big of a deal to occasionally charge it fully to 95-100%, "deep draining" this battery pack below 20% even once WILL cause the physical structure of the internal lithium cells to change: the lithium cells will begin to re-organize into crystals that grow into sharp crystal dendrites that puncture the walls of the cells. Once this happens, some of the internal cells short-circuits causing PERMANENT loss of some of its design capacity. 26800mAh may fall to 25300. The next time it may fall to 22900. And over time deep draining will make it impossible for the bank to store a meaningful amount of power, even at full charge. Remember, PREVENT lithium rechargeables from "deep draining" below 20%, and they will likely preform like brand-new for numerous charge cycles for many years.

Works great as expected from any charger, but the surprising thing is due to the wattage output how fast it can charge handheld-like phones, Nintendo Switch, and the Valve Index in my experience. Capacity I would say is good for the size of it, but I wish it could do more. Get about 2 charges on a near-empty phone.Portable I would say, is good for a backpack, a fanny pack if weight does not bother you. Easy to use, I mean it's a battery charger in this day and age.

I have taken this with me to many different countries and have never had any complaints. I place it in my day bag or pocket to ensure my phone stays charged.

Works like a battery.

Quality I've come to expect from Anker. Based on the specs I was hoping this would be able to charge my Asus Zepherus G14 & Lenovo T480S. The battery can put out 45 watts and the wall charger can put out 65 watts. While the Asus is a gaming notebook, if I keep the power settings as conservative as possible, chatting online, doing email, light web browsing it does slowly charge. Anker does drain pretty fast as I think the unit is putting out it's max power. The wall adapter can be used to recharge the portable battery quickly, or used to power a laptop compatible with USB-C PD. The extra 20 watts (of the included wall adapter) make more of a difference than I thought, charging the somewhat power hungry laptop a bit more confidently. USB-C PD is more of a secondary charging method on the Asus so glad to have this as an option while traveling if I can't get to an outlet to use the barrel connector and much higher power brick that the laptop came with.What about efficiency? Well, both the laptop and the power brick to warm up a bit while running at their maximum output. Nothing that I would be concerned about. Heat is of course power lost. I can't get much more scientific than that.As for the Lenovo T480s it only charges via USB-C and works just fine with the Anker battery or power brick. It's more of a thin and light anyway and a better match for a setup like this.As for traditional USB-A devices, charges my iPhone 11, Apple Watch, Vape, and anything else that I've tried on it just fine. Even super low power things that sometimes trip up the auto on circuit with USB batteries like this since they don't draw enough to trigger it.At some point I want to use this battery exclusively to charge all my daily carry devices (not laptops though) and see how many days I get. If I ever do that I'll update my review with my findings.Oh one last thing, I wanted to talk about build quality. It seems excellent. The thing is just a brick, it feels so solid and well put together. This is I think my 4th Anker battery. My oldest one has even been to Burning Man several times, and also used it for forest camping to run a bunch of USB powered lights I had strung under my EZ-UP. It still works great. One thing to note though is I don't store my USB batteries full charged. If a USB battery has say 4 LED's to show how much power it has left, I always store them with one of the LED's out. It's MUCH better for the battery cells inside.Hope this was helpful. Thanks for reading.