That was a pretty lame update after 11 days. No detail at all.
Their campaign was a classic example of about how to do everything right (from a marketing/sales and running a campaign perspective). Can't say the same for the updates after it's closed.
Yes, slick and effective marketing BS, for sure.... Actual information or useful data and statistics, any technical information
at all, anywhere? Not so much!Batteriser is crafted from stainless steel at 0.1 mm thin to fit back neatly back into your devices’ battery compartments, and comes in 2 variations: for side-by-side batteries or batteries that are stacked, like in a keyboard.
My take on this is they have different versions for "stacked" (i.e. in-series) batteries versus "side-by-side" (i.e. parallel) battery configurations. This is to adjust for the in-efficiencies of multiple boost converters in series. At least that's what I read into this announcement.
NOW.... as far as the general lay public understanding what this means for their toys and appliances, I don't know. Some people have a hard time even putting batteries in the correct polarity orientation. Now ask them to decypher the circuit internals (which may not be entirely obvious) into whether those "side-by-side" batteries are anti-parallel or going in the same direction, and whether the ends are common or not, or wired in some other way. It will be hard to sometimes figure out for some people.
It will be impossible for most, and they won't even bother checking even if they could.
And what type do backers get shipped? Will they send out a survey asking people which type they want?
This has all the hallmarks of a last minute worthy oopsy.
They've certainly had several
worthy oopsies during this cherade and they
still obviously seem to be engineering these things
on-the-fly, as it were... This is not at all how you bring an honest, quality product to market, regardless of how
"slick" your marketing department is.
What utter sleaze....
SHOW US THE NUMBERS!! Give us
REAL data!!!
As an aside, I hadn't even thought about those rare situations where cells are actually connected in parallel. While it does present problems with bare cells (they must be totally matched or will want to try to drain the stonger cell into the weaker cell,) that does add an extra dimension to the circuit design I hadn't considered, though many topologies will essentially
just work, at least to the extent that they may not
"fight" each other trying to regulate to an exact voltage with no load, for example, but it may not be trivial to make them drain both batteries evenly.) That certainly requires some consideration, for sure!