EnergyQC Power Bank review - Charging all the things

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REVIEW – Power. Seems like every few days, we are offered a new form factor of portable battery. Today, we have one that I find really interesting. It’s not a pocket-sized one for your phone, or a bowling ball-sized one that can run your entire camping setup, but it’s a little larger than a pint milk carton, and is easy to carry around and use. It’s called the EnergyQC Power Bank (clever, huh?), and I’ve been playing with it for a few weeks. Let’s check it out.

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Price: $63.99
Where to buy: Company Webstore and Amazon

What is it?

The EnergyQC is a tall, squared-off charging unit with three USB-A ports, 2 USB-C ports, and a LED light on the back.

What’s included?

The unit itself with an attached Plastic handle
USB-C<=>USB-C charging cable
Paperwork

Tech specs

Capacity: 72000mAh/222Wh
Type-C1 Input: 5V/3A 9V/3A 12V/3A 15V/3A 20V/5A
Type-C2 Input: 5V/3A 9V/3A 12V/2.5A 15V/2A 20V/1.5A
USB1 Output: 5V/3A 9V/2A 12V/1.5A 10V/2.25A (SCP22.5W)
USB2/3 Output: 5V/2A
Type-C1 Output: 5V/3A 9V/3A 12V/3A 15V/3A 20V/5A(Max 100W)
Type-C2 Output: 5V/3A 9V/3A 12V/2.5A 15V/2A 20V/1.5A

Design and features

The EnergyQC Power Bank is a square-ish box from the top; 3.125” x 2.5” and 6.06” high. On the top, there are five ports: two USB-C and three USB-A. Either of the USB-C ports can be used for charging as well as powering other units (see Tech Specs and Performance sections). Centered between the two Type-C ports is a button that powers the rear LED on and off with a double-click. This is a fairly dim light, with only one level of brightness. Great for reading in a darkened tent at night, not much good for searching under the car seats for that lost earring. A single click just turns on the power gauge on the front.

This is a very compact unit, but, being a battery, it is very dense. It weighs 2 pounds 7.7 oz (1125 g), so you will notice it. (That’s about the same weight as three cans of soda, in a space the size of maybe one and a half cans.)

EnergyQC 5 — LEDs are difficult to capture on camera. The camera shutter is too fast.

On the front (judging by the branding label), there is a .5” x .75” LED display that indicates the percentage of the 7200wh in the unit in the upper left corner. It works when charging as well as discharging.

On the rear side, there is a 2.375” x 1.25” white diffuser for an LED lamp in the top half of the unit. The two sides are blank, other than a stud that holds the included plastic bail-type handle. The handle doesn’t appear to be removable.

Assembly, Installation, Setup

The unit comes quite nearly fully charged, at least mine did. Topping it up was the work of a few minutes, and it was able to charge from all the chargers I plugged it into. Note the UCB-C port 1 (on the left as you face the unit) only charges at 30W and will only charge the device at the same rate. The other USB-C port has full 100W output but the same input. Similarly, the #1 USB-A port is a 22.5 W port, and the other two are 5V/2A, like the original iPhone charger from 2007. I thought at first that this was a bit odd to include in 2025, but then I realized that a lot of my smaller gadgets will not use the full power of USB-C, despite having the wiring for it. I get so irritated when I plug a new device into a 20W USB-C port (I have a lot of these, having iPads strewn about the house like autumn leaves!) and the charging light just kinda sits there. Or a red warning light comes on, until you realize what’s going on and put it into a lower wattage port. (I’m tickled that most manufacturers have embraced USB-C wiring, but I’ll be truly impressed when they finally will allow charging from any box, rather than making the end user figure out what they need to plug it in to.)

Performance

I mentioned a bit about the performance above when discussing the power output of the different ports. While I hate that they dedicated three ports to lower-power batteries, these are just the types of things that folks have a big need to charge: drone batteries, cameras, gaming units, flashlights, video controllers and remotes. Basically, everything other than laptops, tablets and high-end phones.

Final thoughts

The more chemists and engineers find better ways to make batteries give more power and last longer, the more software and hardware companies find ways to deplete them. And the longer batteries last, the more we want to use our devices continuously. Between phones, tablets, earbuds, smart watches, laptops, handheld gaming devices – the list goes on – we are pretty battery rich in our daily lives. And, if you’re camping or even just having a cook-out away from a building, you start to think about inflators for balls , bicycle tires, pool floats and air mattresses, fans, lights, drones and other toys – the works. It seems like everything that has been invented in the last few decades has been made to run on batteries. And things that used to not be powered with them now are – from your car to your grill. This little device will easily fit into a six-pack cooler or a tote bag. Yes, it’s heavy, but that’s a function of battery chemistry. The lightweight Star Trek Unlimited Battery has yet to be realized, despite the fact that we’re only 40 years from the date we should have developed Warp engines. We’ll get there. We’ve already gotten transparent aluminum.

What I like about the EnergyQC Power Bank

Good compromise between size and power for intermediate use cases
Handy handle
Holds power for a long time when not in use

What needs to be improved?

Can’t really think of anything

Price: $63.99
Where to buy: Company Webstore and Amazon
Source: The sample of this product was provided for free by EnergyQC. EnergyQC did not have a final say on the review and did not preview the review before it was published.