PACKAGING AND CONTENTS
The Arctic Home Charger 4500 is an AC to USB power adapter but comes with a few added tricks up its sleeve. Here’s what Arctic has to say about their charger:
With the Home Charger 4500 you can fast charge four of your USB devices at the same time. With four ports, all up to 2,900mA (combined 4,500mA), and the support of USB 3.1 your devices are fit for service in a blink.
The two black ports are able to fast charge Smartphones of every major manufacturer (Apple, Nokia, LG, Huawei, Blackberry, Samsung, Motorola, Sony, HTC, Lenovo). The configuration of the orange ports enables fast charge of Apple’s iPad and iPhone. Older devices can possibly be charged only at the black ones.*
*The Home Charger 4500 does charge Samsung tablets only in slow mode. Despite some Galaxy Tabs and Notes may show “not charging”, they get charged in slow mode when switched off.
Every port has its own LED light that shows you if a device is being charged and how fast. Another LED signaling the function of the charger and if a total load of 4A is exceeded.
With a total output of 4500mA, you can fast charge a combination of four Smartphones and tablets without overloading the Home Charger 4500. 86% efficiency does not just save you electricity cost; it also keeps the adapter’s temperature low and makes it live longer.
The Home Charger 4500 supports USB 3.1 (USB Power Delivery Profile 1). That ensures that your Smartphone or tablet of tomorrow is able to be charged with maximum speed.
Thanks to its thermal, short circuit, over-current and over-voltage protection, you can rely on this wall USB charger to charge all your USB gadgets worry-free.
The packaging is easily identifieable, should you be looking for something of this type in a store you could easily spot it, and you might also easily notice it when walking by. This charger would work great at an electronics store front display of impulse buys.
The front and back panels give you plenty of details about the charger and a view of most everything you’d be interested in.
As an international company, Arctic has made sure to reach a wide audience with a multi-lingual set of product highlights on one side.
The other side have a few action shots. One thing to note is the image of the prongs for the plug, ensuring we have the US version.
The tops and bottoms of the device are fairly uneventful but do include some things such as their green stamp and warranty info link.
As a nice touch, they even printed their facebook splash on the inside flap.
In the box is the charger wrapped in plastic a bag, and a small slip of a user manual.
Here is one of the few bits of info that may have been useful on the box, a note that not all devices will charge at optimal rate. I wouldn’t like to get home and see that my Blackberry had taken an excessive amount of time to charge, and then have to start looking for a reason to find out something that would have been better to know at time of purchase.
Now that we’ve seen what we get, lets have a breakdown of the features and design.
