So I’ll break this review down into several sections.<\/p>\n
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- Overview<\/li>\n
- Technical information<\/li>\n
- Review<\/li>\n
- Conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
So you know what to do.\u00a0 Get you a drink, of some sort, sit back and relax, because you know how I roll on reviews!<\/p>\n
Overview<\/h2>\n
If you have ever looked at wireless chargers in the past then you know that they are pretty simple.\u00a0 You either lie your phone flat on them. Or you lay your phone on them like a book on a self at an angle.\u00a0 Simple. And yet it’s not that simple.\u00a0 For there is a lot of stuff that goes into a wireless charger. I will of course give you a good run down of that in the technical section.<\/p>\n
But first, leet’s talk about the Lift in a general sense. So here’s the nickel tour!<\/p>\n
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- It’s made out of cast aluminum<\/li>\n
- There is some leather<\/li>\n
- Dimensions:\u00a03.8″ Depth x 2.75″ Width x 5.3″ Height<\/li>\n
- Weight: Makes no difference since you aren’t going to be holding it \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
- Qi-compatible inductive charging<\/li>\n
- \u00a0Up to 10W fast charge with 2 coils<\/li>\n
- It has a small blue led to let you know the phone is charging<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
There you go.\u00a0 The nickel tour.\u00a0 It’s not fancy, but then again, it doesn’t need to be.\u00a0 It’s a solid piece of equipment that looks good.\u00a0 ‘Nough said. Picture Time!<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nOverall I like the design and I also like the feel of it.\u00a0 It’s solid and doesn’t feel like a cheap plastic thing you just want to put in the recycle bin.<\/p>\n
Technical Stuff<\/h2>\n
Okay so let’s get right down to it.\u00a0 How does this thing work?\u00a0 Well let’s get down to the nitty gritty.<\/p>\n
History lesson<\/h3>\n
Before I start let’s say what two types of induction we are talking about.<\/p>\n
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- Inductive Charging<\/li>\n
- Resonant Inductive Coupling<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Both of these do the exact same thing.\u00a0 Charge something by using a magnetic field.\u00a0 But that is where the similarities end.\u00a0 So in order to understand how your simple Fuse Chicken Gravity Wireless Charger works, you must understand these two principles.<\/p>\n
Inductive Charging<\/h4>\n
This all started in 1831 when Michael Faraday made the discovery public.\u00a0 Some might want to give this credit to Nikola Tesla, but they would be wrong.\u00a0 And I’ll explain that later. But back to Mr. Faraday.<\/p>\n
So you have Faraday’s Law:<\/p>\n
The induced electromotive force in any closed circuit is equal to the negative of the time rate of change of the\u00a0magnetic flux enclosed by the circuit.<\/em><\/p>\n
So in simpler terms and one that is really relevant to this particular review, is that he is describing how electricity can be transferred from one coil to another coil by electromagnetic induction.\u00a0 He put a coiled wire around one side of a iron ring.\u00a0 And a second coil around the other side of an iron ring.\u00a0 He attached one coil to a battery and the other to a device to measure the amount of current that passed through it (a galvanometer).<\/p>\n
He noticed that when he completed the circuit with the battery, that the secondary coil had an electrical current induced into to it.\u00a0 He hypothesized that this induction was due to to a change in the magnet flux when the battery was connected and disconnected.<\/p>\n
This was later proven by Joseph Henry in 1832. BAM! Wireless charging before there was TV!<\/p>\n
Resonant Inductive Coupling<\/strong><\/p>\n
Now, how is the different than what Nikola Tesla came up with Resonant inductive coupling?\u00a0 In inductive charging, the oscillator (the coil that has the power attached to it) generates a magnetic field and the rectifier (the coil that has the load attached to it.\u00a0 Or the receiver coil),\u00a0 extracts as much energy from that field as possible.\u00a0 In order for this to be as efficient as possible, the two parts must be as close as possible to each other.<\/p>\n
But, in resonant inductive coupling, there is a series of loosely coiled wires that resonate at a specific frequency.\u00a0 This is place closer to the rectifier.\u00a0 It’s this resonance that allows for greater efficiency at greater distances.<\/p>\n
In 1894 Nikola used resonant inductive coupling to light up a few lights in New York City.\u00a0 And in 1897 he patented the famous Tesla Coil.\u00a0 So a good 60 years after Michael Faraday’s initial discovery Nikola Tesla gives us a better way to transfer energy over greater distances.<\/p>\n
Boo Ya!\u00a0 Wireless charging busses!<\/p>\n
Review<\/h2>\n
So let me start out by saying, having a wireless charger is a nice luxury, but not something that is mandatory.\u00a0 It is nice to be able to just plop your phone on it and not worry about it running out of juice.\u00a0 So what makes the [Fuse] chicken Gravity any different from the other wireless chargers.\u00a0 Well I’ll be more than happy to tell you.<\/p>\n
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- It has freaking leather on it!\u00a0 \u00a0Seriously, it’s leather….<\/li>\n
- It just looks freaking cool!\u00a0 Being cast aluminum, it has a completely different look that all the other plain plasticky looking devices.<\/li>\n
- It works without any issues.\u00a0 I used several phones to test and never had an issue.\u00a0 I know that seems stupid to talk about something working that should work, but you’d be surprised at how many times, simplicity fails.<\/li>\n
- Having up to 10 watts charging with 2 coils, means that this thing will keep charging the future phones.\u00a0 So it’s almost future proof!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
I will say, there isn’t too much you can write about a slab of metal that charges another slab of metal and plastic. But I don’t think there’s been a device that I have sat on my desk and it adds something to the over all aesthetics of the desk.\u00a0 I am a simplistic guy. I don’t like a lot of things on my desk.\u00a0 I like to keep it clean and organized.\u00a0 And the [Fuse] chicken Gravity Lift fits right in.<\/p>\n
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