Helpful Review about Anker Power Bank

"It charges my phone quickly and I'm able to charge it about 5 times before the battery itself needs to be charged." 

"The Anker 10,000 Ah external battery pack and charger holds a charge for an extended period and is easy to use for recharging multiple devices on the go."

"Even though it was basically useless I did not subtract anything from my rating as the instruction sheet can easily be corrected and the product works well."

This is a review of the universal power bank model MP - 10000. It is a rechargeable power pack that will carry a 10,000 mAH charge to allow it to recharge almost all of your portable devices.be corrected though!
When it is plugged in and charging there are four blue LED circles on the front panel and they are in order flashing from left to right 1, 2, 3 and four (all lit up) and then they shut off and cycle again. The unit comes with a separate charger adapter which is 12 V DC at one amp. The addition of a charger is a nice touch as some vendors do not include a charging device with their battery pack and expect you to use your computer or your existing wall charger from one of your devices to charge the battery. I plugged the device in to charge it not knowing how strong the existing charge was. I wanted to make sure that before I did any testing I had a fully charged unit and I wanted to see how long it will be before all the LEDs turn off to indicate a full charge. It took one hour to top off the battery before the LEDs went out.
The unit is nicely packaged and is beautiful in design. The front of the battery pack has a nice glass like finish and it actually looks like a large iPhone. The photos don't do it justice as the appearance it well designed. It does carry a 10,000 mAH charge which is quite substantial and is adequate to charge even an iPad or an iPad 2 or the new iPad 2. The weight of the product is 304 g which is the equivalent of 10.72 ounces.
The battery pack device is designed to charge other items requiring power of 5 V, 9 V, and 12 V. after using the battery pack all night to recharge an iPad 2 new version, the battery pack only took a little over 3 hours to recharge from 1 LED of capacity remaining. That is quite fast as other devices I have tested have taken considerably longer.
There is a switch on the side of the battery which allows you to select between 9 V or 12 V DC and whichever voltage is selected that value shows up on one of two small red displays that indicates 9 V or 12 V. There is a small round jack labeled "Output" and can be used to charge a device that may require those voltages. This capability greatly expands the versatility of his battery pack to allow it to charge many other devices. Unfortunately the very poor instruction manual does not even tell you the polarity of the output connectors. My test indicated that the center pin is the positive for the DC voltage while the outer connection is negative.

The unit has three output ports to charge items. There are two USB ports rated at 5 V DC at 2.1 Amperes. There is also a DC voltage output plug rated for either 9 V or 12 V DC at 2 Amperes as previously disclosed. One USB port is labeled "Out S" and is noted that it is made for charging a Samsung PE 1000 notebook. The other USB port's is named "Out I" as designated it is a charging output for the iPad series of products. There obviously is a wiring difference between the Samsung and Apple iPad devices. Make sure that you plug your device to be charged into the proper USB port. My iPad 2 would only indicate that it was getting power by utilizing the port labeled "Out I". My iPhone 4 would charge while using either of the two USB power output ports. My Kindle Fire would charge from both of the USB ports also an iPod touch version 4. Unfortunately the HP Touchpad would not recognize the "S port" and the "I port" made the Touchpad present a message that the charging device either did not offer enough voltage or current and as a result it may not charge properly. HP uses a funny voltage to make sure you buy their charging adapters.
Make sure that when you begin charging your device that you press the "on" button after you plug your device into the battery. It doesn't automatically come on.
The device comes with 18 plug port adapters for various types of phones and other devices. It also includes three cables one is a USB to micro USB adapter cable, the second is a an extension cable that will accept some of the connectors for other devices and the third is a USB to cable to round adapter that will accept the balance of the device plug style connectors.
* I ran my new iPad 2 down to 41% and plugged it into port "Out I" and pushed the on button of the battery and the iPad began charging. All four of the Blue circular LEDs lit up as the battery was charging my iPad.
* At 30 minutes the charge level of the iPad was at 45%
* At 45 minutes the battery dropped to 3 LED lights
* At 60 minutes the charge level of the iPad was at 50%
* At 90 minutes the charge level was 54% on the iPad (3 LEDs on the battery pack)
* At 120 minutes at 58% on the iPad (3 LEDs on the battery pack)( but dropped to 2 LEDs out of 4 at 140 minutes)
* 150 minutes = 63% with 2 LEDs
* 180 minutes = 67% with 2 LEDs
* 210 minutes = 72% with 2 LEDs
* 240 minutes = 76% with 2 LEDs
* By 7 AM the next morning the iPad 2 new version was at 100% charge and only 1 LED would light.
* I was able to charge an iPod Touch from about 15% to full charge in under an hour!
The device comes with an instruction sheet but the English is so poorly written that I find it even difficult to read. There exist multiple errors in language and in technical details in the one page instruction sheet. Even though it was basically useless I did not subtract anything from my rating as the instruction sheet can easily be corrected and the product works well. It is definitely a problem that needs to be corrected though!