I've seen that happen with an older style wireless mouse. It had a base for charging the rechargeable AA batteries that it came with... but someone replaced them with alkaline batteries. Yeah, it was fucked.

Most everything is cheap Chinese shit these days, some is just overpriced cheap shit

Ever wonder why people call cheap crap “Chinese” when China also makes all the best stufff?

By volume China makes a lot more cheap defective shit than good stuff

China makes all the stuff so yes, the cheap stuff is Chinese

"Doony buy cheap shite" is an excellent tag suggestion.

"dinnae"

"Chabuduo"

bawbag is correct as to the spelling, it's dinnae.

That's pretty neat, dude. All I got was a 25$ movie gift card for one chain (Regal) and about 20 bucks for popcorn. :(

I've heard from a few folks those things are dope. Not so much for the USB charging-my philosophy is if you need to charge your phone while camping you're doing it wrong-but just as a stove. The thing runs a fan so it gets real hot off easily found kindling. You don't need to bring cooking fuel and it's efficient enough to keep running just on deadfall. If you camp often keep it.

Same here. The missus works in forestry, and with the places we go it wouldn't matter if your phone was charged or not. Then I read it had a fan and I'm curious to see it in action. I was going to sell it to buy fancy champagne for NYE, but now I'm definitely keeping it. Thanks Ma and Pa, err.. Santa.

Any of your folks have tips on it?

Is it not terribly slow to charge + a lot of feeding into the rocket stove?

@bawbag It has a pretty huge battery bank so you can precharge and it works to keep itself going. Tried it out the other day and was pleasantly impressed.