are you looking for a small form factor high output charging station to keep around your house
or maybe are you looking for a very portable charging station to replace something that
you might have brought with you on your travels well then you're in the right place hello I am
Wanderer001 and this is my review of the Anker 727 charging station Dan Prime which is fancy
terminology for a lot of factors that anchor has put into this charging station for starters the
charging station here is 6.3 inches in length with a width of 3.11 and a depth of only 0.7 inches in
comparison if I put this up against my pixel 5 it is slightly larger but the depth even with
my Spigen case here the charging station is not that much larger than it so this is an incredible
terribly small device for what you're actually getting out of it however it is a two-part system
the charging station itself is right here but in order to use it you need to utilize the included
five foot power cable that comes with it and this is a very beefy cable that plugs into the top of
your charging station right here and I bring that up because I want to actually turn on and Power on
the charging station so that you can see right here in the middle this anchor logo when it is
haloed in white the device is currently putting out less than 90 Watts however once this Halo
turns blue you will know that you are outputting from this device between 90 and 100 watts and part
of the reason that it's hanging out in white is because I have nothing plugged into it right now
so it's in a power saving state but let's say you don't like this Halo right there well if we come
along to the side right there there actually is a button that allows you to turn on and off
the Halo there and you can see it kind of has a nice little pulse up and then it pulls down I
know those are not really things that you might be thinking of but they're little cool add-ons which
is pretty much what this is all about are little cool things that anchors put together with this
portable charging station one of the problems I'll say is this flat surface here this including the
Halo because you might think it is not actually a charging pad that's because all of the smarts that
are part of Gan Prime are all packed down here because if we look up here we have our two power
outlets and when I held it sideways you notice how ridiculously thin it is so you're looking at
a standard power plug well that's going to shoot right through the back how does that possibly
work well anchor came up with a clever design to have the outlet actually pop up to meet the
device that you're plugging into it and that is one of the space-saving things that you get with
this charging station so you have two outlets on the top but a lot of us don't travel with wall
words anymore I remember when I used my Belkin here I would always have to have a bunch of wall
warts and cables with us charging station here don't have to worry about that on the bottom you
actually have two sets of USB C and two sets of USB a the USB a over here uses their IQ technology
as well as both of these however this first one has a little computer icon right there letting you
know that's going to be for your maximum output now the maximum output of the power station is 100
Watts that is going to do do you for a lot of your around the house Electronics there's only going
to be a few things that this cannot actually work with because the power consumption that they have
is more than this can handle but for everything that I threw at it it was handling it like a
champ so let me show you a few of the tests that I was doing for the Anker 727 charging station here
but now we're going to test the power station utilizing the power brick which has to charge
anyway and however you're going to do that well we are going to start plugging in devices to this to
see if the wattage will change so right now we're at 89 point 7 and I'm going to stick in switchbot
Hub mini here and we can see that that is still reading 89.7 we're going to take a smart plug
and add it to our power station see what that does so it's fluctuating a little 89.2 to 89.7 but
that's that's not a lot if I had some higher draw stuff from here we would know for sure right now
if I bring over my tester here this is drawing 100 Watts so the power station charging the brick with
the Hub mini with a smart switch it's pulling 100 Watts I'm going to plug in a computer power brick
into the station here and see if that changes the draw Nothing by just plugging in the power brick
so let's find out if we plug in the computer all right plugging in the computer into the
power brick still showing 89 Watts we're going to crank up the computer to turbo mode and see if we
can get it to drop that it's moving between 89.5 89.3 and 89.8 which might be a little hard to see
there but it is still actually feeding this the correct amount of wattage and we have just opened
our video editing software to get the maximum pull that we can from our computer I hear my
internal fans cranking up and you can see even doing that power brick is getting its proper
pull and the computer is getting its maximum pull throughout my test I was trying to figure out how
much wattage I can pull from this using different configurations as you saw this is not just a basic
slim form charger anchors put a lot of thought and technology behind this they have things like
their seven point safety system which integrates over voltage protection over current protection
it's fire resistant because this will get a little warm if you're pulling 100 Watts from
it for quite a long period of time I tested it out and got the charging station here up
to about 129 degrees Fahrenheit you also get short circuit protection anti-static which is good for
electronics grounding protection also great and over temperature control and the over temperature
control is part of their active Shield 2.0 system which monitors temperature up to 3 million times
per day letting you know hey this is not going to overheat if you leave something plugged into it
and forget about it if you're worried about those temperatures don't be on the bottom of the device
you actually have four rubber feeties which will help lift this off of whatever surface you have it
on that heat is not transferred to the surface and is only emanating from the device itself I have
been a fan of anchor products for quite some time with travel being a thing that people are doing
again I was in the market for a travel station and this one fit the bill very nicely again because of
that very compact design and the fact that it has that 100 watt output I can run my computer
off of this if I needed to but while I'm running my computer I can also charge my phone and other
accessories that have brought with us because this is anker's newest model part of the series
7 lineup that they're bringing out right now it is not going to be a cheap station I got this right
when they launched it I will say the price has come down recently and if you keep your eyes open
you can pick this up on a really great sale uh well under what I paid for it but even with what
I paid for this charging station I would do it again it is that good the form factor alone for me
makes this a buy so if you're in the market for a slim design portable charging station with a 100
watt output I would highly recommend checking out the Anker 727 charging station with that
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