Legion Meter – Charge Your Smartphone 92% Faster

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plxdevices/legion-meter-charge-your-smartphone-92-faster?ref=popular

by stoev • 12 years ago

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stoev• 12 years ago

I would like to hear other members' opinions on this.

The concept sounds like something that could be done by high frequency charging - by increasing the frequency at which you switch the electricity on and off, you could theoretically decrease the charging time of the battery. However, the Kickstarter project doesn't mention anything about that and about the fact that you cannot put more power into the phone that is coming out of its charger.

What I suspect this device is doing is simply increasing the voltage by some small factor. Thus it would trick the phone that it is charger faster than it really would be. It would also explain why it has an iPhone and Android mode - presumably the use different algorithms to determine battery charge and selecting the right mode helps the device cheat better. If that is the case, then this could be very dangerous for a phones battery.

Legion Meter – Charge Your Smartphone 92% Faster

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