chucks
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So I have been testing the Xiaomi 20000mAh gen 2 powerbank with the switch. And it seems like it cannot charge the switch efficiently when playing Zelda. So I drained the Switch's battery to 75% and plugged in the xiaomi powerbank, after an hour of playing Zelda, the battery still reads 75%. So although it is not the optimal solution it can still provide enough power to keep it going.
I have already verified that the powerbank is an authentic xiaomi product. I have also tested with a few different cables. I even bought a cable from Apple to test. All yield the same result.
I have a volt/amp meter which I checked with and the switch is only drawing about 7W of power from the powerbank. IIRC i read somewhere that it needs at least 8W to charge and play at the same time.
I'm not really that disappointed given that I got it super cheap with the shopee deal.
I'll probably be hunting for another powerbank, if anyone found one that can charge the switch to 100% while playing zelda do let me know. Thanks.
The behavior is correct. As the Switch doesn't support Quick Charge, the power bank will fall back to BC v1.2 charging spec (5V @ 1.5A).
