Stay cool. Stay charged.

Tarnobrzeg · moving air, holding charge

Stay cool. Stay charged.

Four fans for the neck and the desk, four power banks for a day away from a socket. Both were run through a Polish summer here before either reached this page.

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Wearable, hands-free airflowDelivered capacity, not cell capacityCycled full to emptyPosted from PodkarpackieWearable, hands-free airflowDelivered capacity, not cell capacityCycled full to emptyPosted from Podkarpackie

Two habits, one bench

Air you wear and power you carry. Both fail quietly when they are cheap, so both are tested in Tarnobrzeg first.

DAMIAN MULARZ - how we test

The third speed is where a fan shows itself

Any fan is quiet on the first setting and impressive on the box. So we listen at the third, where the blade balance and the motor mount either hold together or start to buzz against a cheap housing. Airflow is checked at arm’s length, not against the vent, because a neck fan works on the air that actually reaches you. The power banks are judged the other way round: cycled from full to empty and back, with the delivered capacity measured at the port and the case temperature noted halfway through, since a bank that runs hot gives back less than it promises.

How we test a run time

Our bias

Measured, not labelled

10,000 mAh on the case is not 10,000 mAh at your phone, and six hours of fan is six hours on speed one in still air. We print the conditions with the number, which makes for a duller page and far fewer returns.

DAMIAN MULARZ - close-up

The close-up: hinge, vent, port

A neck fan lives on a hinge and dies at the port. We open and close the band a hundred times, look for play where the arms meet the motor housing, and check that the vent slots stay clear of hair and scarf fibre. On the power banks the stress point is the socket: a cable hanging out of a loose USB-C port will fail long before the cells do, so we look for a connector seated in a metal shell rather than in bare plastic, and an indicator that still tells you the truth at ten per cent.

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What we check before listing

01

Run flat, then timed

Every fan is discharged to zero with a meter attached, at each speed, so the run time is a measurement.

02

Capacity at the port

Power banks are cycled and measured on output, not trusted from the figure printed on the shell.

03

14 days, two-year guarantee

Unused returns within 14 days of delivery, plus the two-year legal guarantee of conformity on every item.