10 years ago most of these battery packs were relative to the 5V output voltage, so they advertised lower amp-hours. That stopped making sense with fast charging at higher voltages so they restandardized on 3.7V.

But watt-hours would make infinitely more sense for all batteries.

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baobun 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Huh, I didn't get that memo so have been played a fool assuming 5v until now. Advertising mAh corresponding to a different unadvertised voltage than the output is just misleading advertising.

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xp84 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Then the fact we’ve “standardized” on mah as the unit is just another in our long proud tradition, same reason we still use “Watts” as the main measure of light output, even when it has to be made up for use on LED bulbs.

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eru 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Could as least use Coulomb (or just count electrons), instead of taking Current = Charge / Time and multiplying by charge again.

For what it's worth: 1 mAh ~ 2.25 * 10^19 electrons. Or with SI-prefixes: 22.5 exa-electrons (= 2.25 Ee).

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sva_ 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Mostly all flashlights advertise in lumen though? I suppose you mean light bulbs?

	▲	xp84 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, I mean the bulbs. Generally in the US at least we find them in the store labeled like "40 watt equivalent (small print: 2.1W)"