8 slot power bank station for a counter with a queue
The volume format: 8 bays, 36 W output, DC input and 6000 mAh packs. Small enough for a bar top, large enough that a Friday night does not empty it.
Concurrent borrowers decide the bays
Daily footfall tells you the size of the market. Concurrent borrowers tells you the size of the cabinet: the guests holding a pack at the same moment on the worst night of the week.
A 120 seat restaurant with a 40 minute wait can have 15 guests holding a pack at once. Eight bays with eight spare packs covers it. Eight bays with no spares does not, because half the bays sit empty until the first packs come back.
What to check before you buy twenty
The checks that separate a station that survives a year of Friday nights from one that does not.
- Bay springs and cables: the parts that wear first. Ask for the spare part list and the price of a bay assembly.
- Pack lock detection: a bay that reports a pack returned when it is not will bill the guest for a pack on the counter.
- Power at the counter: 36 W output and DC input on this build, with a brick that needs its own socket.
- Network drop behaviour: a station that stops releasing packs when the link drops is a queue at the till.
- Firmware language: the guest flow needs the language your guests read.
One step up
When the busiest hour brings more than 30 guests who might rent, the next order should be the 12 slot build rather than a second 8 slot station in the same room. A second cabinet in the same doorway doubles the bays but not the space, and the queue moves from the bar to the cabinet.
Spec sheet
What the sheet states for this build, and what is only settled per order.
| Field | This build |
|---|---|
| Slots | 8 |
| Pack | 6000 mAh |
| Output | 36 W |
| Input | DC |
| Starts a rental | QR code or app |
| Screen | None |
| Form | Counter or wall mount |
| Spare parts | Bay assembly, springs, cables |
| Connectivity | Confirmed at quotation |
| Housing | Per data sheet |
| Mounting | Counter top or wall bracket, different cartons |
| Operating temperature | Per data sheet |
| Certification route | Per market, confirmed at quotation |
DC input means a power brick, and the brick needs a socket nobody else is using. Confirm the plug type for the destination market.
Where the 8 slot build fits, and where it does not
It fits a room with a real queue: a bar or a restaurant where a forty minute wait is normal, a salon with appointments that overrun, a 120 seat room on a Friday. Eight bays with a pack pool covers the worst night rather than the average one.
It does not fit a venue where the peak is a wave rather than a queue. Where two hundred people arrive at once and leave in an hour, eight bays empty before the room fills, and the cabinet is the wrong shape rather than the wrong size.
Nor does it fit a counter with no length and no socket. If the only position is a metre of bar top beside the till, the counter builds are the honest answer and the floor standing family is not.
How buyers customise the 8 slot build, and what each option changes
The mount and the power are decided by the venue, so they are settled before the cabinet is ordered.
- Counter top or wall mount
- Changes the carton and the fixing, and the wall version needs a surface the venue will let you drill.
- Brick and plug
- Changes the carton and the socket count, and the destination market decides the plug type.
- Start method
- Changes the guest flow and the firmware rather than the bay count.
- Pack pool size
- Changes the working capacity on the worst night and the capex on the first order.
- Guest language
- Changes the firmware drop and the signage, agreed before production.
- Cabinet finish and print
- Changes the MOQ and adds a sample round where the shell is a custom colour.
What to confirm before you approve an 8 slot sample
6 checks on the 8 slot sample before the order is approved.
- The busiest night's concurrent borrowers, counted at the door rather than estimated.
- The socket at the counter, and what else sits on that circuit.
- The wall the bracket would go on, if the wall version is chosen.
- The spare part list, so a bay assembly can be ordered with the cabinet.
- What the station does when the network drops, tested rather than described.
- The guest language and the firmware that will ship.
Questions that come back before the order
Short answers to the questions that arrive with the first email.
Is 36 W shared across the bays?
The output is a cabinet figure, and the sheet states how it is divided while several packs charge at once. Two guests charging together is the normal case rather than the peak, so ask for the division rather than the total.
Counter top or wall mount?
It is two cartons and two installs. The wall version clears the counter but adds a fixing the venue has to approve, and the counter version needs the surface kept free of service.
What wears out first?
Bay springs and cables. That is why the spare part list matters more than the warranty wording, and why a bay assembly belongs on the first order rather than on a later support ticket.
Before the order
- Pack pool: quote spares with the cabinet, at least two per ten bays.
- Mounting: counter top and wall bracket are different cartons.
- Start method: QR code or app, decided before production.
- Brick and plug: one more socket than the venue usually has.
- Build
- 8 slot
- Family
- Floor standing
- Ask for
- Specification sheet, spare part list, RMA terms
Venues this build is specified into
The venue pages where this build usually lands.
Send the venue, get the sheet.
Format, slot count and the specification sheet for each line item, in one reply.