Sharge Shargeek 170 power bank hands-on review: The new shape of charging?

It is also very bright, which enhances its general appeal as a desk-toy. On that note, it has good viewing angles in real life, although it does admittedly come across as way more reflective on camera.

All in all, I like the idea of the Sharge 170, even if this review unit didn’t manage to live up to all of its 140W hype with the Legion Slim 5 14.

Lenovo’s support material does specify a 20V/7A output for this kind of performance, whereas the power bank is rated to go at up to 28V/5A – then again, that makes the laptop’s failure to use the 20V/5A output as the Blade Stealth did even more of a perplexing mystery.

Nevertheless, it remains that I could not verify Sharge’s input/output claims for the 170 in full with the testing equipment to hand – even though I should have been able to. Then again, it is possible that it, like its power brick, was slightly damaged in transit: I could not get its screen to cycle through multiple modes with the power button, as with the Storm series, as normal. (According to Sharge, retail/Kickstarter units should be able to do that.)

It also refused to charge its 2 smaller siblings at once, which would have been helpful in high-wattage testing. Therefore, stay tuned while I source a second “140W USB” device to confirm or disprove these findings in a follow-up to this review. In the meantime, the 170 has exhibited the ability to discharge at well over 100W, at least, and to handle USB-PD duties at the 100W mark.

Finally, this power bank never seemed to get warm enough to so much as warrant breaking the FLIR One thermal imaging camera out: another encouraging indicator of long-term performance. I’d call this an incomplete win for Sharge’s latest high-tech power bank.