CUKTECH 10 Power bank for 120W Mi-Turbo Charge
‘Can you believe it? The little Power Bank in my hand supports up to 120W Mi-Tubro charge and 100W PD charge!’ The testing fellow couldn’t help but shout out.
The latest CUKTECH 10 Power Bank, is worth to be purchased by all Xiaomi users – Let’s throw the conclusion here.
About CUKTECH
About the brand CUKTECH, you guys can check out our review video for CUKTECH 20 here, another impressive newly-released power bank.
Anyway, here I still want to give you a brief introduction, since there are some fun facts about the brand. CUKTECH is actually a brand under Xiaomi’s eco-chain, specializing in portable power solutions like power banks, chargers, and other charging accessories. You might heard of another brand called ZMI, which has been merged with CUKTECH. So the new products of CUKTECH actually come out from the same team.
Again, the fact is that new CUKTECH products was still selling out quite easily whenever they went on sale in China market. There are two reasons for it: firstly because their products always come with a very good value for money; and secondly, because their products are somehow ‘irreplaceable’. For example, if you want to buy a power bank that supports the high-power Mi-Turbo charge, CUKTECH is the best of the very few choices (Nope, Xiaomi’s official options don’t convince me).
Unboxing
Now let’s do the unboxing and check out what we got here.
The CUKTECH 10 Power Bank comes in a simple black package that contains the Power Bank, User Manual, and a 6A cable.
It is recommended to use this special 6A cable when charging Xiaomi devices.
In Actual tests, when connecting the Xiaomi 14 Pro with a normal cable, it can activate up to 100W charge. Well, pretty cool… But, using this 6A cable you will activate 120W Mi-Tubro charge here. I’m happy the special cable is included.
Design
This power bank has a capacity of 10,000mAh / 36Wh, and weighs 288g.
it comes with the CUKTECH family design, the same silver color as the dominant tone, black for some decorative color, and this blue line on the IO part. I personally like this design a lot, as it is really subtle and sophisticated.
There are textures on the black part, which gives solid holding in hands with excellent grip.
There is a small TFT screen on the front of the power bank, which can display the remaining power, charge, or discharge time left, as well as the working status of each port.
This is really cool as we do see many power banks coming with such an info panel, especially for a 10000mAh portable power bank. I mean it’s not that huge, highly-priced model with 20,000 capacity or above, so it’s impressive to see the lovely but informative screen here.
And even if you don’t want to waste power to drive this screen, you can also make the screen stay off manually – Well, good job CUKTECH.
Of course, my favorite thing about it is still the compact size. You can see how small it is. I can put it in my backpack or even my pocket, and it’s not a burden even if I carry it around every day.
Charging Protocols
The Type-C port supports up to 120W Mi-Tubro charge, along with 100W PD and 60W PPS. The A port supports QC3.0 and UFCS Protocol. It’s worth noting that the A port doesn’t support the Mi-Turbo charge.
So if you want to charge your Xiaomi devices, it’s better to stay with the Type-C port. And not just for Xiaomi phones, I would suggest having the Type-C port for the latest phones, tablets, and laptops, as the PD and PPS charging has been widely applied for the latest years.
Anyway, we also did a complete test of the charging protocols for these two charging ports. The results are pretty solid, please check out the image below or just watch the video.
The CUKTECH’s power banks generally support most open fast-charging protocols, while, unfortunately, some brands still only stick to closed private fast-charging protocols. This undoubtedly adds to the cost for their users when shopping for fast-charging products, and available options will be limited. So as we reviewed so many charging solutions, we really hope that all the phone brands will embrace the open protocol.
Of course, the most important thing is how it performs when charging up Xiaomi devices, I chose several popular Xiaomi devices to test and there is no doubt that the CUKTECH 10 Power Bank can activate the highest power Tubro charge for all of them, which is almost the same as we got on the premium CUKTECH 20.
So, if you are a Xiaomi fan, this is the ultimate EDC Power Bank for you.
Well, not just for Xiaomi devices, the results with other brands’ devices also brought a little surprise.
For example, I was also surprised by its performance with the Vivo X100 Pro and Honor Magic 6 Pro, both of which can have high charging power under PPS protocols. So maybe the CUKTECH 10 is a smarter choice than their expensive official power banks?
In addition, since CUKTECH 10 Power Bank supports 100W PD Protocol, it can also juice up laptops. Here we selected a 14-inch Macbook Pro with the power bank for the test, you can see the output power here.
Of course, since it’s only 10,000mAh, the CUKTECH 10 obviously is more appropriate for charging phones and other smart wearable devices.
The CUKTECH 10 Power Bank supports 90W input power, during the test it started with 86.2W input power, after 10 minutes the power was dropped to 50W, which is still a pretty high power. Eventually, it only took 45 minutes to get fully charged.
The crazy thing is that it only takes 10 minutes to charge up to 43%, which is certainly a great solution for some emergency charging needs.
Stress Test
In the stress test, the Type-C port was used to charge the Xiaomi 14 Pro, and the A port to charge the Vivo X100 Pro.
The temperature was measured after 15 minutes, and as you can see, it has excellent temperature control just like the other CUKTECH products we have tested.
Meanwhile, I also tested the ripple, which was only 10 mV at no load and 50 mV at 100W output.
User Experience
So who is the CUKTECH 10 Power Bank for? No doubt it is the best for Xiaomi fans, no matter whether you are using Xiaomi, Redmi or POCO, it can activate the Mi-Turbo charge with maximum power. For Xiaomi fans, this power bank is the best choice at 10000mAh capacity.
If you don’t have a Xiaomi device, you can refer to the test results in the video to make your decision, after all, the Mi-Turbo charge is like a bonus compared to the other third-party power banks. Even if you exclude the Mi-Turbo charge, this is still a very good model.
So how to choose between CUKTECH 10 and 20? Here’s a very good example in our studio for your reference. There’re different features of Power Banks valued inside the Review team. The author would go for the most powerful Power Bank that’s available to be carried in the air such as the 20,000mAh CUKTECH 20, while the other reviewer would go for a more compact one such as this CUKTECH 10 Power Bank, which is also compatible with various fast charging.
If the CUKTECH 10 also convinced you, just check out their Amazon store here.
