ZDNET Highlights
- A premium-quality power bank designed and built for modern workloads
- Three USB-C ports and a retractable USB-C cable with a maximum 300W power output
- Expensive at $220, but $50 off right now!
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Power banks come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, ranging from small ones that attach to the back of your smartphone to larger banks that are too big to fit in a pocket. For heavy-duty workloads, power banks don’t get much bigger than ecoflow rapid pro Unit – A power bank designed and manufactured for modern charging scenarios.
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EcoFlow is a big hitter in the power station market, and now it’s making its way into smaller consumer goods like power banks – after all, power banks are just little power stations!
designed like a coke bottle
With a 27,650mAh/99.54Wh capacity, the Rapid Pro is about as big as power banks can get – and there’s a reason for that, because beyond the 100Wh point they’re not allowed on commercial airliners without loads of regulatory hurdles.
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The Rapid Pro is a power bank built for presence. Weighing 1.5 pounds (700 grams) and built like a Coke bottle, this is a power bank that’s best kept in a bag rather than a pocket (unless you’re always in cargo pants!). But that size not only makes room for huge battery capacity but also ports – lots of ports!
Good selection of ports
There are three USB-C ports on the top of the unit – one capable of 140W (input and output) and the other two at 65W maximum (these are the output ports only). In itself, this would be a good selection of ports, but there’s more. There’s a built-in 60cm USB-C cable at the bottom of the unit that can also handle 140W input or output.
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The three ports and built-in cable can all be used simultaneously, allowing for a maximum of 300W output.
These pogo pin pads allow the power bank to charge at 320W, but desktop chargers are difficult to find.
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If 140W charging isn’t enough for you, the Rapid Pro is compatible with the 320W desktop charging station that Ecoflow makes, which uses the pogo pin pad on the bottom of the power bank – but it’s a little difficult to find as a separate unit to purchase.
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There’s a large color display on the Rapid Pro that’s used to keep the user up to date on what the power bank is doing, and three buttons on the side to navigate the on-screen menus.
The display is clean and there are options to turn on the watch in the smartphone app.
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There is also an app to remotely control the power bank and show its activity. This allows access to “hidden” features such as turning on the clock and changing the artwork that appears on the screen.
ZDNET’s shopping advice
The number of people who need a power bank with USB-A ports – especially a power bank with a price tag like the EcoFlow Rapid Pro – is small, so it’s refreshing to see a four-port unit that just uses USB-C. And the fact that it has three ports and a built-in cable makes it completely up to date and ready to charge anything from a laptop to earbuds.
As I would expect from EcoFlow, Rapid Pro Does everything it says it will do on the tin. The power capacity and output are phenomenal, the recharge speed is very fast, and the built-in cable is a really nice touch.
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Do I have any complaints? The only thing about the Rapid Pro that bothers me a little is that the black finish is a complete fingerprint magnet. Yes, I’m actually finding fault here.
This is a great power bank and a must have. With a regular price of $220, it’s definitely on the premium end of the spectrum, but if you act fast there’s a $50 discount, bringing it down to a much more reasonable $170. At this price, anyone looking for a high-end, high capacity power bank should hit the buy button before the price rises!
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