today we'll be unboxing and reviewing the banner room boost what is a battery
room boost you might be asking well it is a special little stainless steel
sleeve that fits over a standard battery and what it does is as your battery
starts dying or running out of power basically the voltage drops let the
battery room better room back back to room excuse me well hard getting that
off the tongue does is it boosts the voltage of the battery so that way your
device will continue operating either at its peak or able to withdraw more power
from the battery until the battery is fully exhausted now you see a regular
1.5 volt on a regular to say double-a battery operates new and about 1.5 volts
but as that battery starts to die so you start up here at 1.5 volt and as it runs
out of power that voltage declines well as that voltage declines something like
say a flashlight that's a more of a passive load will start to dim oh and
something that's active load such as a digital camera once that voltage level
it's the cut off it'll just fail to operate all together and that's when
usually you'd say okay battery's dead and you get a new battery
well the idea behind this is is your pulse fully dead but um the idea behind
this is you say that digital camera might cut off right here at save point 8
volts well there still may be potentially 50% of the energy left in
the battery it's just you can't access it because the voltage is too low or
your digital key I say your flashlight which is a passive
load might be too dim to be worthwhile at that point so then again you'd say
that battery would be dead so the
batterbatter room takes that say and we're going to use just point eight
volts as an example that battery takes at 0.8 volts and steps it up to 1.5 now
even though the battery is half you know just for example half dead the bad room
will provide that voltage needed to keep it functional and I'll do so until that
battery is as exhausted as possible which in some cases I mean if we're just
going by by my chart here that could almost double the life or double the
amount of energy you can get out of your battery so we're going to do a few
different things here I have three three devices and I have the battery I have
two different sizes but we're just going to do the double aids for today I also
have the triple-a version and the cost was this for this we're ten dollars per
for bad aru's which is if you think about it's a little high but on a deeper
level if you can double the life of your batteries I mean Duras cells are
expensive this hex I personally stick with the dollar store
and Harbor Freight batteries I get a 24 pack off guard with Freight batteries
for free with any other purchase or you get 10 of the Dollar Tree Universe
electronics down a tree yeah 10 of the Dollar Tree double-a batteries for a
buck I mean you can't beat that yeah they don't last as long as the
alkaline is but for the price I mean you're still getting about two-thirds
better that when I go shipping packages the pack and ship place where I dropped
my stuff off usually has a big bin full of double-a batteries that they have to
take out a remotes when they ship back places so you you're welcome to
take those at free of charge I grab I always grab these suckers and they might
they might only be used a little bit but if I can if I can use this to suck a lot
more power up great right so we're gonna try it in three different devices and
then we're also gonna for different devices okay
I have my computer mouse here we're also going to check fitment because something
that I was concerned about was once you put this on the battery the battery is
slightly larger even though the sleeve itself paper-thin on the sides there's
some microcircuitry up here which is a DC to DC converter or buck boost
converter is what what boosts that voltage up to be able to provide that
1.5 volts so it's with wise or circumference wise it's it's really
negligible but lengthwise they're a little longer which is what's concerning
me so let's give it a try first let's let's check some let's let's try voltage
boosting I know that's what the main idea is here so you can see my
multimeter there at the leads just so you can see that yes I don't have too
much room it is all connected so we'll check I saved these for the purpose of
actually testing in this video this is a n'doul we made in China
heavy duty carbon zinc battery it's 100 1.2 2 volts thought one was lower here
this one is 0.72 so we've got a 0.72 and a 1.2 - now these are just starting to
leak but I wanted to use these because these are pretty drained just as an
example to see let's see how much it would boost
so remember okay let's start with this one here
ok now it's 1 1 volt alright now with the booster that's
weird it's lower with the booster 0.67 and
without the booster point maybe this one is too far going it's kind of leak in
there let's do a different one let's do this one in dolly battery ok 1.2 to pop
it in point 6 7 I'm not looking too good for the batter
rule
let's try a different battery see if maybe it's a defective one
that 12.5 - volts that is curious
voltage is going lower let's see and I had high hopes okay
that's all that one's at 1.8 rolls good tie that was new that's that's fine one
that's down just a little bit here
that's gonna meet her acting weird
sorry for the video cut my multimeter actually ran out of battery the battery
died my multimeters so we are back so let's give this a try here so we have
two batteries that will no longer power my my mouse I go through I spend a lot
of time on the computer while editing video so I go through a lot of batteries
let's see what this one's still good and this one's actually a used alkaline one
point three seven volts on the rayovac one point three seven seven the
heavy-duty nickel to the carbon zinc Harbor Freight and one point three six
for the Dollar Tree as long as we're at it let's do another Harbor Freight at
one point two eight volts so the three Mouse batteries are pretty close in
voltage so once again I'm going to go ahead one point three seven six put that
into your we got coming out
with the battery we're at one point four eight one all right let's try the Harbor
Freight mouse battery alright out once again now it's reading one point three
five and then with the battery one point four six nine so it is it's boosting the
voltage this one was about the same to begin with one point four six nine
it's boosting about the same each one
one point four four that was lower
let's try one that is we're really dead this one's leaking they're just about
you can start seeing the real label bubbling I'm not holding my breath on
this one this one's one point one three four let's see if this one has any
improvement although given this condition I don't think it'll be too
well this one's actually went down in voltage so this one's pretty much shot
of course I don't recommend using the leaking batteries at all so that is
interesting alright since we're doing Mouse
batteries let's see if this fits in my mouth which is actually one of the main
reasons I bought this is what I go through so many mice bad or mouse
batteries okay so my fears were correct the room is too big to fit in the mouse
it's too long slightly not much just slightly but it is too big let's try
this way it looks like I could force it in there
but how much damage would that cause on the batter room so unfortunately I will
not be able to use the battery on my mouse at least not without modifying the
mouse lightly grinding off some of this plastic in here which I mean it's it's
an option now let's see one thing I had been noticing is these old carbon zinc
style batteries seem to be a little shorter then the alkaline so let's see
if the carbon zinc will fit no once again I could force it but then all
chances are I'm going to end up breaking into the bedroom and at two dollars and
fifty cents each plus shipping with a pack of four costs $10 to two dollars
and fifty cents each and then these shipping charges I want these two lastly
so look couple of uses alright so given up on the mouse let's
see what else do we got flashlight let's see how it does in my flashlight this is
a 3 watt LED let's try let's try the Sun beam Dollar Tree Dollar Tree battery one
thing I also know this is it doesn't seem to matter which battery you use
they're pretty loose in there but you got to bend this a little tab over help
get it to stay on the battery and the problem with that is you're bending the
metal and then over time you'll get that metal fatigue Thank You Elon you stop
tweeting me
okay so that's with the batter roof
that's without can't see too much of a difference there and I can tell you this
one does dim quite a bit as batteries run low let's try the harbor frieght
without
with yeah I can't see too much difference maybe it's gonna you know
they'll do the better runtime before it's completely dead then it will do for
brightness and I'm noticing something here the top of the PCB is actually
starting to bend up as if the positive terminal is actually starting to push it
out so I was really having high hopes for this product but it's so far it's
not really holding up let's see let's try Gino's helicopter which is pretty
much dead at this point
yeah pull those out let's see what these batteries have left in them
one point one volts one point zero five and 0.8 let's start with that point
eight now are these carbon are these alkaline super heavy-duty so that means
these are carbon zinc all right this is the point eight see what it boosts it to
its lower so it looks like we might be he'll feel below the voltage that the
van riru will function at let's try these two
point three six so that one's boosted
nothing on this one
1.12 without the batter rule and
let's see within the banner room that's by passive the voltage reading yeah
that's even worse yet so we got one pass in to fail so we're not even gonna be
able to use these no let's see what these do these do anything in the
flashlights without the banner room see how if if they're really that shot or if
the battery rooms just failing that much well it's brightness is pretty good
that's the one volt 1 this is the 0.81 yep that's what this one does quite a
bit dimmer the cameras actually and enhancing the light a bit but still
functional in the flashlight well let's try that one bit the bedroom the
flashlight
nothing absolutely nothing let's try the one good one the better in the
flashlight yeah it's pretty good
just to rule out maybe a faulty battery let's try the one that we just verified
good nope the voltage is dropping with the better room on these all right well
that stinks but well means I'm gonna have to put new batteries in here
anyways but at least let's try fitment so let's take the one that was still
good and see if that even fit in this device I already did not fit in my mouse
let's try
yeah fit alright one fit just for giggles let's try to I'm just gonna use
three junk batteries are low batteries but ones that we knew worked still can't
power the motor although it could be a failed motor huh saw a little wiggle out
of it alright and as a control let's put in three brand new batteries in the
package one two three
okay well bedroo didn't do anything for that okay let's see next little Vinnie's
crab little Vinny's crap is heavily dependent on battery voltage and as the
batteries die it gets a little creepy so perform surgery here we have two
alkaline batteries
these are Roundy's brand grow so around these grocery store made in USA huh look
remarkably like reversed Dara cells so let's see what voltage in these little
buggers are it let's see if we can boost them with the better rule we have one
point one eight and one point two two alright let's grab a couple banner rooms
there we go what was that no idea what that beeping was pulling the tablecloth
off so we have with the batter ooh nothing and nothing what is going on
here oh the positive terminal on these batteries are too short to reach the
beta runes contact points crap well I kind of feeling that was gonna happen so
I actually have a few pieces of aluminum foil to act as a little spacer so I'm
gonna put that between so we can have contact
oh yes there's a timer in there it shuts off after a while
this just isn't too logical here but I want to keep using the same batteries to
show them before and after let's see did that work
one point for - so we got a voltage boost all right let's do it with the
other one
1.43 so yeah we got our voltage boost all right let's see if they'll fit into
mr. Crabb and no shit fell apart no let's try the other one
not only is it too long it is way too long now let's go back to the carbon
zinc once again the carbons inks are shorter and they make up for it with a
longer terminal so let's ditch the outlines that were in crabs let's put
let's put these to Harbor Freight soon hear how they sound
a little better but still rather creepy let's see if these shorter cells will
work with the banner room
yeah and it's in but it's been to the living crap out of the tabs on the
batter room now they use like a little chrome tabs you know sticking up and are
like grippy instead of having something
that's rounded if was round it wouldn't have that grabbing problem got one in
this one oh my god they're steel casing it's just bending to help I hate the
state because I really really wanted this to work I mean seriously I mean
that but it's just that's maybe if I put the batter ruin first let's try that
bedroom first mend the battery
it's in but so far these batteries are not worth the hassle
well it's definitely better let's keep this guy's singing let's see what the
voltage is on there alone here point six
and 1.33 so it feels like it's working on one but not the other and that
voltage goes right back up when I shut it off
see if we can get them out without breaking them you put batteries first
Bente to living crap been to living crap well Vinny I'll just give three of you
two new batteries again all right so we have failed fitment on the mouse failed
fitment on the crab very difficult fitment on the chopper and no actual
function and no noticeable difference on the flashlight for brightness
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