New Surface Pro 4 and Lind Car adapters

New Surface Pro 4 and related power supplies.

We have been selling Surface Pro Car accessories since the Surface hit the market.  More specifically, our Lind Candy adapters originally could charge the Surface Pro 3 and Surface Pro 4. But with the latest updates from Microsoft, it seems the Lind Candy adapter will no longer be able to power the Surface Pro 4.

As indicated by this thread:

http://www.surfaceforums.net/threads/new-power-supply-has-65w.17858/

it seems that the adapter that currently ships with the Surface Pro 4 is a bit underpowered!  Also, looking at Microsoft's website, they only seem to be stocking the larger sized 65w replacement adapters and not the smaller 36w adapter that actually ships with the Surface Pro 4.

So, as of today, we are changing our store lineup and selling the Lind "candy" size adapter for the Surface Pro 3 ONLY.  The Surface Pro 4's Lind adapters will be shipped with a higher power Lind adapter comparable to the 65W Microsoft replacement adapters.  This larger size/higher power Lind adapter will allow users to continue to charge the Surface Pro 4 battery while the tablet is in use.

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

UPDATE 2: USB-C Adapter for full line of USB-C Macbooks! (Almost there)

I am so excited guys! We are almost there!

Final prototype in testing.

If all final testing goes well, we'll have pre-order up soon, so watch this space!

World's only USB-C car adapter and universal battery charger.

We recently tested our competitors, and we can safely say that we are going to be able to fully power a full sized Macbook Pro 15" from any External battery (within voltage output range of 12-24vdc),

Here are our some pictures of our prototype in final testing. (End casing will be white in color.)

(Pictures of our USB-C adapter after fully charging our MBP 15 from 0% charge.)

Stay tuned!  We will be announcing the launch of this great product first here!

Until then...

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

UPDATE: USB-C Adapter for full line of USB-C Macbooks!

Hi Everyone.

Thanks for emailing us your questions. We are still working hard on this project. 

USB-C is turning out to be harder than expected as getting it to work across all devices is not an easy task. One of the reasons why is because USB-C PD is a smart adapter which means there is communication between the charger and the device to adjust the voltage accordingly. Most of today's devices typically have one adapter to one device. 
Basically 1 to 1. USB-C is 1 to many.

The other delay has been our Courier unfortunately crushing our prototype during delivery which created a long wait whilst getting another one done :-(

Despite all of this, we are moving forward steadily and we will keep you all posted regarding our progress.
Thanks for your patience. 

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

HP Charge cable - Exclusive offer

Hi all,

Here's another Mikegyver Exclusive...(only found here!) 

Our HP charge cable helps you connect our batteries to your HP and includes a special sense pin to allow for full speed charging!

Check out its specs and more at:

http://mct-corp.com/store/index.php?product/page/2076/HP+Charge+Cable 

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

Battery Box conversion

Hi All,

Recently a customer came to us about converting their Batterybox. He was concerned that we might not be able to convert the Batterybox due to the software used to control it since removing the center pin on Magsafe end.

So this is what you read about Batterybox:

BatteryBox powers your laptop rather than charging it, keeping the battery at the same charge percentage - minimizing the number of cycles and stress on your MacBook. This way you get the most power out of BatteryBox without wasting any energy from it travelling through the MacBook battery first. ”

After reading this, the below was my response to his concerns:

There cannot be software managing the device in the way mentioned above.  In fact, your Macbook would behave EXACTLY the same as the above description if you disabled the internal chip within the Magsafe. In the early days of the Magsafe, there were a lot of knock off magsafe cable that lacked the charging chip. All the cable did in essence was power the Macbook and NOT charge it. In fact, we have even seen some customers see their internal battery drain during high CPU usage.

The bottom line is this: Think of a battery as a cup of water.  You either drip power into your Macbook, or you pour as much as you can into the Macbook, at the end of the day you'll still have the same run time.

So now that that is explained, lets show you how we converted the Batterybox with a Genuine magsafe cable with full charging functionality restored!

A little bit of additional tibit: this is how they are bypassing Apple Patent, but leaving out the control chip within the Magsafe!

Like it?

Let us know.

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

Electricity is like water...

Hi!

Did you know electricity is just like water? 

Recently we had to troubleshoot a problem with an adapter that kept blinking on and off when connected to a Surface Pro 4. After extensive troubleshooting I realized that this might make for a great blog. So here we go...

A customer approached us with what he thought was a problem with one of our car adapters; no matter what he did, it kept blinking on and off. I told him that the power source (his vehicle) was not providing enough power. Obviously this suggestion was laughable though, after all, it was a brand new large and powerful vehicle, plus his other smaller devices where working fine. Plus on top of that, if he put his Surface Pro 4 to sleep, it worked fine for a while.

But his setup was not regular in any way and as mentioned before...it was a large vehicle. 

No matter how much I tried to tell him that the wires going to his adapter did not have enough power to keep his Surface powered up, I could not convince him though that there was nothing wrong with our adapter and was politely asked to mail when we had an upgrade that fixed his power cycling problem even after showing him that a smaller car with less devices and shorter cable run from engine compartment to cab solved the problem!

The bottom line was that we were fighting physics!

In order to explain in the simplest possible way, I will use an analogy:

The power supply to your device is like a small garden hose. Your smaller devices just need the garden hose to be happy. Your larger devices (like the Surface Pro 4) need a Fire hose. You CAN get around this is by putting your device into sleep/shutdown mode so that it has enough time for the garden hose to fill up the internal cup (battery) thus allowing for water to be pulled from internal cup and the vehicle. But, when that cup gets depleted, however, it simply pulls from garden hose again and then starts to choke.

So in order to fix it, you have to give it a bigger hose...so it has plenty of water to operate on. Obviously to turn your "garden hose" into a "fire hose", you need to give it a bigger wire. 
Another thing to consider sometimes is a bottleneck between the power source and the device. Think of it like a kink in your water hose.

I hope I have made something rather complicated a bit clearer...if not let me know in the comments below  :-)

Stay powered up!  

Mike
MCT-corp.com

USB-C Adapter for full line of USB-C Macbooks!

Available soon!

We have had so many requests for our USB-C battery and Car adapters for Macbook Pro's (and other USB-C devices) and so have decided to give you a bit of a teaser with pics of our prototype.

Our prototype in production

When done, it will be compatible with all our batteries, and will charge from your car. It will support full line Power Delivery devices including the 87W Macbook Pro as well as USB-C outputs of 20V,4.3A,   20V,3A, 14.5V,2A, 9V,3A and 5.2V,2.4A

Not Pictured: USB-A Output:  3.6-6.5V/3A, 6.5-9V/2A, and 9-12V/1.5A

We have had a few delays in getting our USB-C to work with a wide range of device but we think that we should be ready for release in around 2 more months.

In the meantime, we have sent a few prototypes out into the market to select individuals for testing to assist us with our final design so please let us know if you'd like to consider testing one.

If you would be interested in placing a Pre-Order, please let us know in the comments below.

Stay powered up! 

Mike
MCT-corp.com