30% discount on our Batteries!

30% discount on our Batteries!

We are increasing our summer sales of our batteries to 30%!

Please use discount code:
30Disc when purchasing

Please note that for larger devices like the Macbook Pro 15" Touchbar, we only recommend our larger batteries (the "CEO" and the "Executive")

Why not make hay while the sun is shining hey?

Limited time offer - get yours now.

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

Hurricane, No Power, No Internet, Oh my!

Hi everyone.

As you know Hurricane Irma visited us recently.  I wanted to thank everyone who emailed us their well wishes during her visit.  It was really nice just knowing you guys were out there! We were lucky enough not to have suffered major damage, but this was the first time in my life I had to prepare for a hurricane of this size.  In the past, it has been mostly just removing all loose items in the yard. The real challenge with Irma came in her aftermath actually.We had no power for a whole week, which was the longest I have ever been without power.  That meant no internet, little to no cell phone coverage and, for us, no water. One doesn't realize how reliant we are on power and you only truly start appreciating it when you don't have it!

Fortunately, a good friend gave us a generator last year and I could not thank him enough during this time!  We used it to run our refrigerator and portable AC unit.

Lucky for us, we had plenty of batteries! :-)

My wife and I each used one of our "Executive" batteries for our cell phones and it they kept both phones charged the WHOLE week!  I also had the "CEO" ready to go and used that for our Macbook Pro's, hooking the portable printer up to it too just in case we would have to go a week more.

Because we had little internet, we didn't use our laptops much, but by mid week I noticed that cell coverage improved so I started making alternative plans should we not get power.  That meant subscribing to mobile hotspots for internet and finally beginning to process our backlog orders.

I did a lot of thinking in that week in the dark. I have been thinking of a shift in our business model. I have done a lot of things for our house that border on "off grid" living including the way we keep the water running (we are on a well and not dependent on city water).  To blog about all my ideas would take up a whole new series of blogs...so...in short...I re-piped our well so that we have a secondary lower powered pump for water. I learnt that you need to be more efficient with your power resources when living off the grid.

Have you been thinking of ways in which to be more efficient with power should it ever run out? Does off the grid living interest you? Send us your emails or simply comment below.

Ok, well...Storms gone, and I still have much to do.  Thank you for your patience with our orders.

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

USB-C Video

Check out our USB-C Video!
https://youtu.be/agGHBpkaMBo

Final Update 5: USB-C charger adapter - NOW AVAILABLE!

Hi Everyone,

We're proud to announce that our USB-C Car and External battery adapter is NOW available!!

Charge your Macbook Pro 15" touchbar or any other larger device with our USB-C adapter.
It can plug into any car cigarette plug and any external battery power bank that output's 12-24vdc.

Do you have a battery that has a special connector, we'll modify it for you!

Get yours here now!!!

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

Update 5: USB-C charger adapter - Pre-Order here!

Hello,

Just wanted to update everyone, that we've posted more pictures of our final product!

It looks beautiful in shiny White! Click here 

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

TSA and external batteries

Hi all,

Do you remember the last time we wrote about being stopped by Airport Security (TSA)?  For those of you who missed it, please check it out here: So I got stopped at #TSA ~ #TravellingTips #TravellingTales

I recently had another opportunity fly and keeping in mind what happened last time, I decided to see what would happen if I took our "Executive" battery along for the ride.

On arriving at the TSA, we had to perform the usual drill: put iPad in separate bins, take off shoes....etc. Not sure of what to expect, I left my 34.2ah battery (127wh) in my bag and shoved it through the X-ray machine. Well, I ended up walking through the body scanner and picking up my backpack (with my battery inside) on the other side. They didn't stop me, there were no delays and everything went quiet smoothly! All I kept thinking was: "Damn, I am not going to have much to blog about!"

Besides my disappointment at a lack of blog content though 😂, I am happy to report that it seems that even our Executive may at times makes it through TSA.

So with nothing else to blog about, I thought I would use this space just to answer a recent question by one of our battery users. He was asking us how we calculate our battery capacities (thinking all our batteries where over the 100W max for airlines). We calculate our battery capacities by multiplying the voltage of the individual cells inside the battery by it's total Ah.
For example  - with our "executive" battery, the cells inside are each 3.7v so we take 3.7v x 34200mah which would then = 127wH.

If you do these calculations with all of our batteries, you will actually see that technically, the only two batteries that are not TSA compliant are our "CEO" which is ~195wH and our "Executive" which is ~127wH.  All the rest of our batteries (which we call the platinum batteries) are good to go for TSA.

Why am I telling you this? Are we telling you to break the law or that you won't ever get stopped at TSA if you carry our CEO or Executive?  No.  Remember, your 'mileage' may vary, and you could end up having your battery confiscated or worse. Also remember...there is a reason they call me Mikegyver!! 😂

I have always wondered though, what the difference is between taking two 24aH batteries on a flight (177wH in total) and one big battery (like our Executive) that is 127wH. We would love to hear your thoughts on this one or any stories you might have of getting any of our batteries through TSA.
So what do you think? Is it the same as taking two batteries or one large one?  Is it worth the risk?

Stay powered up "SAFELY"!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com

Update 4: USB-C charger adapter - Pre-Order here!

Pre -Orders open

Hi Everyone,

We are finally in production and super excited!!
We also just wanted to let everyone know that pre-orders are now open!

Don't pay too much attention to the pictures yet, as the final unit will be glossy white.  We'll update the pictures as we get them.  Consider this a Pre-announcement only!

Herewith then our pre-order link - place your order now:

http://mikegyver.com/store/index.php?product/page/2095/USB-C+Car+Adapter+charger

Stay powered up!  

Mike

MCT-corp.com