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Yeah, it’s hard to find good ones. You could invert it to 120v AC and plug in a regular charger, but you lose efficiency doing that, not to mention the added danger, weight, and complexity.

Oh I think I get it now. So you can terminate the solar panel with something like this and then charge phones with a standard car charger with PD. I like that idea.

I’m having trouble imagining what you’re setting out to accomplish. 12v solar panels are higher than 12v. This one gets to 18v, for example. You need a solar charge controller to convert it to 12v, and then you’d need something like this to convert it to 5v to charge your battery bank. Whether your battery bank will “take” 12v without electronics to tell it to is beyond the scope of my knowledge, but AFAIK 5v is universally accepted.

Good to know. I had heard Anker did some shady stuff but never caught wind of a good replacement. The phone charger scene is obscene as seen by OP, and and I would rather buy from Anker than buy garbage.

I could be wrong, but I just did some quick research and it looks like the PD spec always supports all of those voltages. I also did a reverse image search of the image you posted, and it’s some no-name brand from Amazon. Don’t buy no-name brands from Amazon. Stick to Anker.

Most countries require flight crews to clear customs if they’re on the ground for more than a certain amount of time. The only one I know off the top of my head is Canada, which requires it over 1.5 hours.

In reality, the timeline was likely 1) pilot messaged the company about the problem shortly into the flight, 2) company said "ok, keep going while we look into options, and 3) 30 minutes or an hour later they told the crew to turn around. Flight crews don’t make logistical decisions in cases like this.

Motorcycles… it’s always motorcycles.

I try to avoid Amazon when possible. I’ve had this happen, too. I paid a couple extra dollars on eBay in order to avoid Amazon, and the item came from Amazon anyway.

That said the number of participants in the study makes it a little questionable.

You’re just being anal retentive. 47 is plenty!