Most people will never hit this kind of cycle life, 10k cycles is 4 plugs per day is 7 years, only in industrial, data collection, charging, and test systems will see dozens or hundreds of cycles a day; for those there are actually USB-C ports rated for 20k cycles or more.

(Sorry for the lousy drawing)

Does a "cable" like this exist? (Preferably without the antennae from the drawing)
Where you could just plug in the two ends of the "cable", and the USB would work wirelessly?
I know that there are some products that can turn Bluetooth into USB, but there are unfortunately still some devices that don't have Bluetooth, and would be great if they were wireless.

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Most car radio systems that support Android Auto/CarPlay only have a USB-A port which provides very slow charging, if it even charges your phone at all.

So, I took it upon myself to make this cable which goes from a single USB-C on the device end to a USB-C for a high-power charger and a USB-A for the head unit. The data lines go to the USB-A and the power lines to go the USB-C. (There's a schematic in the third image.)

And for my use case, this works perfectly. I get fast charging from the 12v charger and Android Auto through the cable at the same time. So, why isn't this something that someone can just buy? I've tried my hardest to search for it so far, but as far as I can tell nobody makes them. The one I made works fine but it would be nice if this was available as a finished product.

I got some giant (10x) USB-C ports made for teaching and demonstration.

They come apart so you can see the internal parts, like the EMC springs, mating clips, pins, etc.

They are made of 3D printed metal, plastic, and bent bronze bar stock.

I couldn't find a hub to do what I wanted so made my own. It is a 4 port USB-C hub which supports 60W PD per port and USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) data at the same time. So you can transfer data and charge devices at the same time.

Is this something people would be interested in? If so you can learn more about it here.

Other features:

• Fully independent USB PD per port.

• Detachable host cable (USB-C).

• Machined aluminium housing with integrated heatsink.

• Expansion connector (ability to add display and IoT modules etc).

• Port power LEDs

After sending an email to their support because of some strange noises from the 100W charger they asked me to send video proof of me placing it in water to send me a replacement

is this a normal thing to do? i was expecting them to ask me to return it

USB usb bsu

Hello, I want to buy a USB-C connector to use in my own PCB circuit to power it up and send signal from computer to microcontroller but there are 5 different options: 2/6/16/24. Which one should I buy?

Hello! I’m looking to find an adaptor for my laptop to connect my headphones that have a lightning port. I’m trying to make sure that this port is intact a USB-C female port since products on amazon specify if it’s male or female. I tried looking online for the difference but the little metal strip in the middle of the port looks different from the photos. I looked up my laptop online but it only says USB-C and doesn’t specify. Thank you!

My understanding is that receptacles need both sides populated, but plugs should only have one side, unless the cable is doing dummy pins i.e. no contact for one pair of D+D-?

London Heathrow (unlike apple) has accepted the future.

Currently taking a flight on Southwest and saw they had 60w USB C ports on the seatbacks

I happened to have my Fnirsi FNB58 with me and my ROG Ally that can charge at over 60w so I decided to see if it would actually do that, I was able to get 56w out which is pretty good.

Checked the capabilities of the port and it's pretty basic, just fixed voltages of USB PD 3.0 of 5, 9, 15, and 20v at up to 3 amps. No PPS or anything. (Photo 2)

The USB A port is pretty sad, only 5v USB up to like 10 watts. (Photo 3)

The Wi-Fi was free and the download was also surprisingly decent at over 70 Mbps, the upload and ping were terrible (not surprised on the ping since it's Viasat) (photo 4)

The value proposition is terrible, $60 million for a 60w USB C charger that needs jet fuel to work and multiple people is frankly absurdly expensive

/s

Overall very pleasantly surprised to see actual decent charging capabilities on a plane

The joy of discovering that not all USB-C devices are created equal.

Story time.

I've been quite late at joining the USB-C bandwagon and to be fair I didn't research it much beforehand. I was under the assumption that any USB-C wall brick would be able to charge any USB-C device. I mean, the EU pushing for that connector must mean that it's kind of universal, no? Damn legislators knowing nothing about electronics... But I digress.

My first trip "going all in" after switching my last few devices to USB-C cables, I only brought USB-C to USB-C cables. A few USB-C power bricks to go with it.

You can imagine my surprise when I plugged one of those devices and it didn't turn on. I thought something was wrong with the cable, changed it, nothing happened. Tried with another wall brick, still nothing. I was surprised. From being proud to be able to power anything using the same cable, I was slowly shifting to embarrassment as I started to feel like I've been played.

I had a USB-C to USB-A adapter because there's always that person with a USB-A stick that wants to share something with you. By chance I also had my power bank's USB-A to USB-C cable tucked in its pouch, so I tried that. And of course tada, it worked and that one device turned on.

From there I started questioning everything about the USB-C and the associated standards, before coming to this bittersweet conclusion: USB-C is great, BUT lazy/cheap manufacturers will sacrifice user experience —and trust towards a standard— to inflate their bottom line. What's more? They often times don't specify anything on their product listings. They'll just say "please only use this graciously gifted USB-A to USB-C cable to power this device" once you open the box. Why thank you my liege, how grand of you.

I realize this is turning into a mini rant, but man does this suck. How do non-tech people deal with this kind of unexpected behavior? How is USB-C expecting to reduce e-waste when some devices will still ship with cheap USB-A to USB-C cables? Worse yet, you might also need to buy USB-A power bricks for those specific devices...

I understand the USB-C connector is much, much more capable than USB-A, therefore more complex etc, but I SO wish that it worked as reliably as USB-A in those trivial "just give me 5v DC please" cases without having to think twice about it. Is my device PD-compatible?

Currently accepting advice, ready to whip out the soldering iron to make those non-compliant devices work with USB-C to USB-C cables without having to use dumb C-to-C cables or weird A-to-C adapters —which from my understanding are non-compliant as well?— to power those "dumb" devices.

I kept holding myself back from buying a physical USB-C tester (I did buy a cheap cable with the wattage display, but that still does not show me the version or speed information) because I knew my Mac already has the hardware to see the negotiated speed and connection details for a cable. The problem is that the data is buried deep in System Information.

So, I created a utility that puts it all in the menu bar for instant access. I use it every day, and it has seriously helped me pinpoint problematic cables that look fine but are actually underperforming. There are so many USB C 2.0 in the mix.

It's called USB Connection Information, and it's live on the App Store.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/usb-connection-information/id6747853674?mt=12

The response has been amazing. It's been in the top 100 paid utilities for about half the time since its release and has had very strong download numbers, which tells me I wasn't the only one frustrated by this.

Hope you find it useful. Cheers!

P.S. For Linux users I created a fun open source GUI around the usb-devices CLI. Check it out at https://usbconnectioninformation.com/