What do you think about this Power Bank/Station?

[LegendAmI]

Hi guys!

I was looking for a Power Bank to keep my dash cam charged while in parking mode (I have a Blackvue DR750S-2CH-IR, plus a 4G LTE Wifi Wingle).

I don’t drive very often, so for me there's no point in buying something like the Cellink Neo or the Power Magic Ultra Battery B124, I couldn't keep them charged!
Instead I would prefer to buy 2 big Power Banks and swap them every 24/48 hours (while one is charging at home, the other one would be inside the car powering the dash cam).

After a lot of research I found this one that caught my attention:

199.99US $ |Beaudens Portable Power Generator 166wh Power Station With 2000 Cycles, Powered By Safer Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery - Jump Starter - AliExpress

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It has 166wh, Lifepo4 batteries and a lot of outputs (it also has the cigarette socket adapter)!!
According to the measures, it should fit under the seat lying on the side.

What do you think???

 

[joe384]

Yes, there has been a couple of threads on these in the past. I think they are a great alternative if you don't always spend enough time driving to charge up a cellink.

You could probably get 2 of them for under the retail price of a cellink as well.

 

[LegendAmI]

Yeah exactly, I just bought 2 of them!

 

[SawMaster]

Do consider the mounting, as you don't want something that size flying around under emergency braking or in a crash I do think this is a better solution than the Cellink, but it's a little harder to configure, install, and use.

What I'd like to see is for someone to make something like the Cellink as far as simplicity, but in a larger capacity and with a faster charging rate. This could be done with a BMS and using cells in a parallel/series configuration which is switched around for best charging, but I don't know how much market there would be for it as it would exceed the cost of many of the good dashcams we have today.

Phil

 

[kamkar]

A controller / charger thingie the user could then pair with whatever lifepo battery he want to use.

 

[LegendAmI]

Thanks guys for the advices, soon I'll receive the batteries and I'll find a way to place them firm