High capacity power bank station: three builds.
24 slots behind a touch screen, 32 behind a 43 inch panel, 48 at the top of the range. For lobbies where the queue, not the demand, is the constraint.
Builds in this family (3)
Three lobby builds
Same question at every size: how many returns per hour, and who empties the cabinet at 23:00.
A 23.8 inch touch build that holds enough packs for a two hour peak.
Open the build32 slots32 slot with 43 inch panelThe mall corridor build: a rental line and an ad line on one cabinet.
Open the build48 slots48 slot with 43 inch panelA morning peak with no attendant, and a route that keeps it stocked.
Open the buildSlots against the peak hour
The cabinet does not fail because it is too small. It fails because the return rate is lower than the release rate at the peak.
| Build | Slots | Screen | Site it fits | What breaks first |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 slot | 24 | 23.8 inch touch | Cinema lobby, food court | Restock timing at close |
| 32 slot | 32 | 43 inch LED | Mall corridor, entertainment floor | Power circuit and door width |
| 48 slot | 48 | 43 inch LED | Airport, station, hospital | Service route and fault response |
Add the pack pool to the slot count. A 48 slot cabinet with 48 packs and no spares runs at two thirds capacity the week one pack is lost.
Capacity is a logistics number
A 48 slot cabinet is not 48 times better than a single slot unit. It is a device that must be restocked, cleaned and repaired without closing the lobby, which makes the service route more important than the bay count.
Three 8 slot stations along the same corridor often beat one 24 slot cabinet, because a failed unit takes a third of the capacity offline instead of all of it, and the guest walks less to return a pack.
- Release rate
- Packs handed out per hour at the peak
- Return rate
- Packs handed back per hour at the peak
- Restock
- Moving packs from a full cabinet to an empty one
- Spare ratio
- Packs held outside the cabinets, per ten bays
Door width, floor loading and the circuit
The three things that stop a cabinet at the loading bay.
- Door and lift: a 48 slot cabinet arrives crated. Measure the service door and the lift before the order ships.
- Floor: a full cabinet is heavy, and a mall may want the load calculated before it allows one on a mezzanine.
- Circuit: a dedicated circuit, sized from the specification sheet rather than from an assumption.
- Network: a cabinet that loses its link must still release and accept packs, or the lobby gets a queue at the concierge desk.
- Service access: clearance at the front, and a route that does not cross a fire exit.
Ask for the crated weight and the cabinet dimensions in writing. A venue will ask for both, and a supplier who has to look them up has not shipped one.
Before the order
What a large cabinet needs that an 8 slot station does not.
- Crated dimensions and weight, for the door, the lift and the venue loading rules.
- A dedicated circuit, sized from the sheet rather than from an assumption.
- A restock plan: which cabinets are full in the morning and which are empty by six.
- Fault response: who is called when a cabinet reports a failed bay on a Sunday.
- Slots
- 24, 32 or 48
- Screen
- 23.8 inch touch or 43 inch LED
- Pack
- 6000 mAh
- Ask for
- Crated weight, power draw, service clearance
Other formats
Send the site, get a written configuration.
Venue type, busiest hour and destination market is enough. The reply is a build, a slot count and the specification sheet for each line item.