Triple Your Nintendo Switch Battery Life: The Best Portable Chargers Tested!

Looking to extend your Switch battery life to nine hours or longer? Tom's guide to Switch power banks is essential viewing. Here we review the Anker Powercore 10,000, the RavPower 26,800mAh portable charger and the Lumsing Glory P2 15,000mAh.

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[jecoharman]

The lads at Digital foundry do a stellar job. Thanks for the hard work.

[SyruseEln]

$24 for 5 extra hours of battery? Sounds good to me. Having no experience with power banks, this video was genuinely useful for me.

[Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

See this what I love about Digital Foundry, they don't just throw around statistics and specs expecting that people will just know what they're talking about. They actually show their damn work in practice and most of the time you end up being a little richer in the knowledge they provide and hopefully can actually help consumers. All these petty comments about PC Master Race Vs Console Wars, will never take the sheen away from everything this channel does right.

This is really helpful but I hope Nintendo will take battery into account when they release the next refined model of the switch (The Lite, XL, Slim or whatever) and provide something that gives good battery life.

[intheairex]

What are with all these comments not related to the video... This is a video about battery life, not graphics.

[chelocheliniXD]

i use the car battery with full charge for 60 hours of gameplay

[DD-zhjj]

No fancy background music no overwhelmed advertising and use solid math and stats to speak. I love this channel so much.

[Veon]

Great video, I think I value the portability of the Anker above the others.

It would be cool if DF also tested other games to quantitatively see how battery life varies. By now there are a fair number of games out for the Switch, having a table that showed battery life for them would be very helpful for consumers imho.

[dropthehammer]

I recently bought the Anker power core+ 20100ma and will confirm with usb type c will hold 100% battery. best battery ever and comes with 3 cables

[Gusto_UFO]

Hell yeah, I purchased the RAVpower long before this video. POP POP!

[GundamTech]

Aukey 30000, usb type-c and usb3.0 is the best one I found on amazon for my switch

[borrellipatrick]

I have an Aukey battery pak for my switch, it's a hefty 30, 000mAh 😅
Can charge two switches and someone's phone all at the same time with it

[HGShurtugal]

Anker PowerCore+ 20100  Works great for me I used it at max brightness for about 6 hours and used about 30%

[caif]

Odd how a video on battery banks leads to bashing on completely unrelated topics on the switch.

[GuerilleroX]

Exactly everything what I needed to know about charging my switch with a power bank, great job Digital Foundry

[djkennedy]

I brought ravpower last year for my trip to Florida to charge my GoPro batteries and phones while out at Disneyland . I've brought the switch and using it for portability with a man bag but its never let me down highly recommended. another good video from digitalfoundry my favourite YouTubers 🖒

[zachhong]

Wow the amount of time it must have took to get the data just thanks for doing things like this.

[stormlegend]

Really great ways to extend battery life. Thanks DF!

[El_PRCO]

I don’t usually go out of my way to like a YouTube videos but this video deserves my like only because your research

[jamesbuckie]

2:50 BOTW at 60fps. The american dream...

[TheBlackmandu]

I really appreciate this in depth analysis. This really respects the audience's inteligence.