My newest toy

[Greynomad]

Found this at the local service station, of all places.
It seems everyone is selling bits & pieces for our phones.
The black & white box is my (now) old powerbank.
The new toy is the USB/iPhone cable.

Without power, nothing unusual... BUT...

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WITH power, it lights up. BUT that's not all...

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The colour 'bleeds' down the cable!!

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The cable at the power source continuously cycles through the whole spectrum between red & blue and back again, which travels in sequence down to the phone plug. A bit like those solar-powered colour-changing garden lights. And it works regardless of whether it's attached to my phone or not (as you can see -- no phone attached)!
(The 'powered' pix are slightly blurred if you enlarge them, because my camera has difficulty focusing in dim light )

[Mrcoolabah1au]

W0w

[SteveW]

A touch too much sun from being in the garden too long?

[Dot]

I think it may be "a sign" Ray. la la la la la

[dapope]

Try to avoid that sort of stuff these days. At 3 am, all the spaare light messes with my sleep....

[Greynomad]

Simple: I just unplug it when I don't need it.
I have a 'normal' 240v charger (unlit) by the bed to charge the phone overnight.
The Funky Monkey lead is reserved for those times I need to carry the powerbank. And it's left unplugged until it's used. It does put a slight drain on the powerbank's battery.

[T1 Terry]

Bugga, my phone isn't "smart" enough to need any of those things, the 30 min charge lasts for 3 days so carrying a spare brick to keep the "smart" brick going doesn't get a look in..... I must be really behind the times it seems

[Greynomad]

Yeah,
Powerbanks are now about 1/3 the thickness of my antique (18mths old!)
Marginally thicker than the phone itself.
Must update it...

The cable is such a hoot, I bought another one for the car-charger plug!
Nothing wrong with the old one... it is just a boring black-insulated wire.