Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

Re:Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power... by xp84 on Sunday September 21, 2025 @05:50PM (#45326990)

Then the fact we’ve “standardized” on mah as the unit is just another in our long proud tradition, same reason we still use “Watts” as the main measure of light output, even when it has to be made up for use on LED bulbs.

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Re:Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power... by eru on Sunday September 21, 2025 @09:10PM (#45328163)

Could as least use Coulomb (or just count electrons), instead of taking Current = Charge / Time and multiplying by charge again.

For what it's worth: 1 mAh ~ 2.25 * 10^19 electrons. Or with SI-prefixes: 22.5 exa-electrons (= 2.25 Ee).

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Re:Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power... by sva_ on Monday September 22, 2025 @10:35AM (#45334055)

Mostly all flashlights advertise in lumen though? I suppose you mean light bulbs?

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Re:Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power... by xp84 on Monday September 22, 2025 @01:14PM (#45336492)

Yes, I mean the bulbs. Generally in the US at least we find them in the store labeled like "40 watt equivalent (small print: 2.1W)"

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