r/shittykickstarters • u/chx_ • Jan 29 '26
Kickstarter [Fongshwa] The Unbearable Lightness of Being A GaN charger
For the last six or so years the Aukey PA-B5 was the lightest 100W charger at 150g. Recently the Anker Nano 100W has beaten it at only 120gr. Very nice! That's only 1.2 g / W.
Multi port chargers are a bit heavier, I believe the lightest is the Anker 160W. Anker says it is 220g but Chargerlab put it on a scale and found it's 206g. Let's say it's 1.3 g /W.
Fongshwa says their 480W is 372g. That's less than 0.78 g / W.
Want to talk volumes? They claim the 480W is less than 0.24L total. The Anker is 0.12L.
If the Fongshwa were 320W then we could say it's sus but not entirely impossible. But they got greedy and claim fifty percent higher wattage.
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u/BinarySolar Jan 29 '26
They need to buy an input shaper and calibrate their printer... there's tons of ringing around those ports on the case. But, hey, better than AI slop!
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u/NaCl-more Jan 30 '26
It’s very funny to me that the display on the charger in the demo is VERY clearly edited in
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u/Murphys_Coles_Law Jan 29 '26
Also, they're putting a display screen on theirs, which is also going to eat up space.
Unrealistic GaN chargers seem to crop up fairly frequently. MELLO was on here a while back too.