USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
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Re: USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
#2I've basically stopped buying any portable electronics unless they take USB-C.
Currently travelling with a laptop, watch, toothbrush, eReader, camera, bug-bite treater, and phone - all charging from the same power brick.
I'm guaranteed of getting a replacement cable / charger wherever I am in the world if I need it.
The only slight snag is some cheaper itema refuse to use PD and insist on plain 5V/2A - buy most decent travel chargers have NON-PD ports.
Amusingly, most of the buses I've taken recently also have USB-C ports on them for ad hoc charging. Perhaps one day EVs will use USB-PD-Max rather than CCS :-)
Re: USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
#3I've basically stopped buying any portable electronics unless they take USB-C. Currently travelling with a laptop, watch, toothbrush, eReader, camera, bug-bite treater, and phone - all charging from the same power brick. I'm guaranteed of getting a replacement cable / charger wherever I am in the world if I need it. The only slight snag is some cheaper itema refuse to use PD and insist on plain 5V/2A - buy most decen…
Same!
I've also returned a few USB devices that ship with a USB-A to USB-C cable and ONLY charge in that mode, they also MUST charge with USB-C PD.
The two so far were a therapy light and some Zippo hand warmers. Like, who in the hell would design a device that has a USB-C port on it where only a fraction of chargers will work on it. It feels even worse than proprietary charges, because you see a USB-C port on it and think, oh I have a plug that fits it, and then it doesn't F**ing work. Idiot engineering/product teams, making the world suck with their falsely advertised USB-C ports. If anyone of you are on a team that ever makes this decision, just know that it is a stupid decision, and jump ship when you can.
Re: USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
#4I'm looking forward to USB-C PD small format factor PC's. A decent amount of room in the PC cases is taken up by the power supply. And if USB-C could somehow provide a range of voltages to the motherboard, SFFPC's could be downsized even more
Re: USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
#5I've basically stopped buying any portable electronics unless they take USB-C. Currently travelling with a laptop, watch, toothbrush, eReader, camera, bug-bite treater, and phone - all charging from the same power brick. I'm guaranteed of getting a replacement cable / charger wherever I am in the world if I need it. The only slight snag is some cheaper itema refuse to use PD and insist on plain 5V/2A - buy most decen…
Same! I've also returned a few USB devices that ship with a USB-A to USB-C cable and ONLY charge in that mode, they also MUST charge with USB-C PD. The two so far were a therapy light and some Zippo hand warmers. Like, who in the hell would design a device that has a USB-C port on it where only a fraction of chargers will work on it. It feels even worse than proprietary charges, because you see a USB-C port on it and…
The thing is, making a 5v-only device PD-compliant is literally one resistor. It costs well under a penny.
It's pure ignorance, not a decision, but the lack of one. Lack of caring, lack of having an actual engineer involved, just slapping an oval-shaped port into a product where a trapezoidal port had been, and blindly thinking that magically makes it spec-compliant.
Or not thinking about the spec at all.
I return these devices too. Lots of them. My e-commerce returns over the last year are probably 50% PD non-compliance, 50% all other defects combined.
Re: USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
#6I'm looking forward to USB-C PD small format factor PC's. A decent amount of room in the PC cases is taken up by the power supply. And if USB-C could somehow provide a range of voltages to the motherboard, SFFPC's could be downsized even more
There are some SFF PCs that can take USB-C power.
Lenovo have some,but sometimes require adapter cards. And a few of the Chinese N150 units will take PD power
It's great for hot swapping and more portable than a laptop.
Re: USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
#7I've basically stopped buying any portable electronics unless they take USB-C. Currently travelling with a laptop, watch, toothbrush, eReader, camera, bug-bite treater, and phone - all charging from the same power brick. I'm guaranteed of getting a replacement cable / charger wherever I am in the world if I need it. The only slight snag is some cheaper itema refuse to use PD and insist on plain 5V/2A - buy most decen…
Same! I've also returned a few USB devices that ship with a USB-A to USB-C cable and ONLY charge in that mode, they also MUST charge with USB-C PD. The two so far were a therapy light and some Zippo hand warmers. Like, who in the hell would design a device that has a USB-C port on it where only a fraction of chargers will work on it. It feels even worse than proprietary charges, because you see a USB-C port on it and…
> I've also returned a few USB devices that ship with a USB-A to USB-C cable and ONLY charge in that mode...
By "that mode", do you mean "1.5A @ 5V" permitted by BC, or do you mean "3A @ 20V" permitted by non-type-C PD?
> Like, who in the hell would design a device that has a USB-C port on it where only a fraction of chargers will work on it.
Who in the hell would design a charger that can do Type-C PD but can't do either pre-Type-C PD or BC? Does the charger in question also shit the bed when a USB 1.0 device attempts to draw 100mA @ 5V? I hope not! Were it me, I'd return that crappy thing for a refund.
Re: USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
#8I've basically stopped buying any portable electronics unless they take USB-C. Currently travelling with a laptop, watch, toothbrush, eReader, camera, bug-bite treater, and phone - all charging from the same power brick. I'm guaranteed of getting a replacement cable / charger wherever I am in the world if I need it. The only slight snag is some cheaper itema refuse to use PD and insist on plain 5V/2A - buy most decen…
You can always use a „PD Decoy“ if the voltage is USB compatible. A 5 / 9 / 12 / 15 / 20 Volt barrel plug is trivially USB powerable.
Re: USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
#9I've basically stopped buying any portable electronics unless they take USB-C. Currently travelling with a laptop, watch, toothbrush, eReader, camera, bug-bite treater, and phone - all charging from the same power brick. I'm guaranteed of getting a replacement cable / charger wherever I am in the world if I need it. The only slight snag is some cheaper itema refuse to use PD and insist on plain 5V/2A - buy most decen…
I'll bite. What type of watch do you have that has a direct USB-C port on it?
Re: USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
#10I've basically stopped buying any portable electronics unless they take USB-C. Currently travelling with a laptop, watch, toothbrush, eReader, camera, bug-bite treater, and phone - all charging from the same power brick. I'm guaranteed of getting a replacement cable / charger wherever I am in the world if I need it. The only slight snag is some cheaper itema refuse to use PD and insist on plain 5V/2A - buy most decen…
I think you are confusing the devices with USB-C that require USB-A, and devices that charge the standard USB-C 5V/3A/15W. The USB-A ones cheaped out in including the resistors that signal legacy USB mode, they work with the ones in the cable or adapter.
Lots of people assume that USB-C always uses USB-PD, but the basic signalling is done with resistors. Lots of devices only need 15W, and it is better than USB-A charging. If you want faster charging, buy more powerful chargers.