u/Ravenparadoxx

I am wondering if Ridgid intentionally uses less aggressive charging protocol by terminating charging early by skipping all or some of saturation charging. I am suspecting this, because their turbocharger marketed as 12A claims to charge 12Ah in one hour, and 6Ah in half an hour. Everyone familiar with lithium ion technology knows that battery charging is not like filling a bucket of water. If you follow up with a full saturation charge, 6Ah battery takes about an hour to fully charge at 12A, and 12Ah takes close about 90 minutes.

5 gallons per minute does fill a 55 gallon drum in eleven minutes, but it doesn't work like that with lithium ion batteries. It is charged with a protocol called constant current-constant voltage which applies a constant current to the battery and the battery voltage gradually increases. When a set voltage is reached, current is gradually reduced while holding the same voltage and continue holding the voltage until the current drops to something like 5% of Ah capacity in amps. So for a 10Ah battery, that should be 10/20 or 0.05A.

The interesting thing is that if you charge a 10Ah at 2A, by the time it reaches 21v, there's a lot more charge than when it reaches 21v at 20A. For this reason, the last 20% or so often takes as long as the first 80% to fill up depending on how fast the first bulk charging is done. I'm sure you noticed that on your phone.

https://www.homedepot.com/pep/RIDGID-18V-12A-Turbo-Charger-AC86099/327055157

In some cell phones, there's a battery protection setting letting you choose to stop charging at 80%, or a few values between 80 and 100%. This is intended to extend the life of battery... I wonder if Ridgid is intentionally doing the same without options to change it for the sake of reducing LSA claims.

One of the most damaging thing you can do to NMC lithium ion batteries is to fully charge it, then store it fully charged.

I have literally sat at this light for good 3-5 minutes for it to turn green when there's virtually no traffic. Also, once it is green, this has got to be the shortest green light ever. I've never made it through without seeing it go yellow.

What's the deal with this spot?

Update: WSDOT confirmed something was off and that they just adjusted it. When I noticed it, there was another car in the other lane. I know it's not psychological perception. After about two minutes, I took note of the time. Three minutes have advanced before it finally turned green.

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/energizer-3-in-1-15w-magnetic-magsafe-qi2-compatible-fast-15w-charger-charging-station-stand-for-iphone-airpods-apple-watch-black/J36C4YXZVG

Finally found a charger that works correctly with the camera bump AND case with no overheating BS with Moto G Power 2025. Just line up the lightning bolt symbol on the helipad and the "M" logo on the back of the Motorola phone. The helipad is small enough to let the phone lay flat without the camera bump interfering.

With the Nimble charger, the pad was too big for the phone to fit flat with Bodyglove in place. It did negotiate 15W, but the thing got blistering hot! A generic one with a small enough "helipad" to rest flat was rated at 15W, but that one wouldn't negotiate higher than 5W.

But, this one finally gets 15W charging going with Moto G.

So strange things happen with Moto G when the power bank isn't quite enough to fully charge the phone and it runs out.

I plugged in a 8,000 mAh power bank into a Moto G Power 2025 which was at 10% charge with a C-to-C cable.

I sorta forgot about it. When I came back to it, I found the power bank blinking 0% and the phone powered down.

When I started the phone, it was at 30%. I checked charge history on AccuBattery and found that when it charged from 10% to 95% on 1h:40m, then, discharged from 95% to 0% in 2hrs back-to-back. Apparently, phone powered down at that point.

There's no further log since the phone was off, but I'm guessing the power bank and phone kept playing ping pong with each other and apparently the match was gonna go on until both devices were completely depleted.

I charged the power bank to 5%, then plugged the phone into it again and I was able to confirm this was indeed what's going on.

WTF?

Ridgid's website claim that registration process takes up to (means not longer than, at the absolute longest) two weeks.

Their FAQ contends that "Our online system uses the receipt information you provide, specifically your receipt code, to search The Home Depot receipt database. If our online system sees your receipt in The Home Depot receipt database, it will then search for the item you are registering. Once it verifies the item and the receipt, you would receive a confirmation email to let you know your item is under the Lifetime Service Agreement (LSA)."

Then, when it fails to be processed and stuck in "pending" weeks later and you follow up, they demand that a scan of receipt be submitted. In that time, the receipt had already faded and some of the numbers weren't legible, so I had to go to the store, waste my time and get it re-printed.

I haven't made any LSA claim since 5-6 years ago. I can only imagine the major headache if I have to in current situation.

I bought an INIU PPT01 Pocket Pro 10K Power Bank PD which claims to be 45W, bought locally at a Target store.

Motorola phones are picky about chargers. The Moto G Power 2025 supports 30W charging. It doesn't maintain fast charging with many chargers, but it does provide a sustained 25W charging with a generic PPS capable 30W charger I have sitting around.

When using the INIU PPT01 with the Moto G, it takes about a minute to reach 25W of charging power, then after a few tens of seconds, charging power plummets down to THREE to FOUR WATTS of charging and stays there per AccuBattery app; a behavior that I do not see with known compatible charging blocks.

When I tried to reach out to INIU, they demanded an order number and wouldn't entertain providing support without it. Terrible company to deal with! I gave up and returned their questionable product to Target for cash back. It did say 45W and it did not say it is not compatible with Motorola.

90 days is approaching. Whether to keep or return decision is looming upon me.

I've heard comments here and there that they're now just looking at "does it charge? Does it turn the tool on at all?" as the threshold of replacement and heard people being denied replacement even if their 8Ah is working like a 1.5Ah.

Can someone shed a light on this? If this is the new standards now, I'm done with Ridgid.

Some budget phone and special purpose cameras have a fixed focus lens set at hyperfocal distance intended permanent distance vision.

This had led to issues with inability to scan QR. What sort of add-on external element(s) can be used to temporarily enable such cameras to see closer?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Rabbitr1/comments/1dnn5x7/camera_out_of_focus_to_scan_the_activate_qr_code/

Motorola phones are notoriously picky and it doesn't appear to be just my G Power 2025.

I've finally figured out a wall adapter that holds 20W+ delivery into battery, but not so lucky with power bank.

I have one that will do 15W steady... while some despite being rated at 20W, charge the phone at FOUR watts, or hunt back and forth between 6W charging and 12W charging.

If I use a power bank with USB A port and use an A to C port, that will get me a predictable 10W charge.

No, it's not intentionally alcoholic hard kombucha. For a time, some stores sold GT's in brown bottles labeled as 21+ only, because the ABV might potentially exceed the legal threshold of 0.5% but not intentionally alcoholic like hard kombucha. Are they still made? What stores sell them?

It is a 5,000mAh combo power brick with a built-in power bank. When it's plugged in, it acts as a power brick. When it's not, it acts as a power bank. When the device is no longer connected or charged up, the adapter charges the internal power bank.

It claims to be 30W as an adapter, 22.5W as a power bank.

When it's plugged into the AC outlet and connected to the phone, I get the TurboPower splash screen but in Accubattery, it shows it's charging at paltry 4.3W!

When it's unplugged and operating as a power bank, I see it hunting between 6 and 12W, every 30 seconds or so as seen on AccuBattery.

So, that glamor of "TurboPower" splash screen is meaningless in showing what it's really doing.

A flat Qi charging pad can not line up flat with the Motorola logo on the back which I believe is the center of coil. The camera bump gets in the way. So, this creates a gap and the charger gets blistering hot.

Is there such a thing as a raised center charger or stethoscope like one that is small enough to properly line up with the coil center on the G Power 2025?