The latter helps stabilize the charger against a wall with a lot of little suction cups to help ensure it doesn’t fall out of the outlet (see photo).Īnd the wall plate accessory works well.

In the box you get the charger, its multilingual manual and the charger’s hard-rubber wall plate accessory. It’s almost like Anker planned for the charger’s compact size to be a pleasant surprise. It’s standard-issue neither super-premium nor barebones.īut when opening the box, I found that at least two of the chargers could have fit inside it. The 747 comes in stylized black box with “Series 7” written on the side, a photo on the front and lots of promotional details on the back. Photo: David Snow/Cult of Mac Nice packaging plus wall accessory The wall accessory with suction cups keeps the 747 from slipping out of a wall outlet.

The new GaN chargers cut carbon emissions by up to 30% over older ones, too, according to Anker. On average, the GaNPrime chargers are about 2% more efficient than previous Anker GaN power adapters, the company said. You can measure a charger’s efficiency by how much electricity it wastes converting AC to DC. The GaNPrime chargers monitor temps 3 million times daily. And another feature, ActiveShield, adds protection by intelligently monitoring temperature and adjusting power output to keep connected devices safe.

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