I nearly sent back a headlight I purchased for my bike. I put it on my desk and tried charging it with my MacBook Pro's cable, my iPad Pro's cable and a couple

I nearly sent back a headlight I purchased for my bike. I put it on my desk and tried charging it with my MacBook Pro's cable, my iPad Pro's cable and a couple other USB-C cables I use to charge other gadgets. The light wouldn't charge. No LEDs would light up, it was like I never connected it to power. Eventually I tried another cable I had in a drawer and it worked. Then I found another one that works. I have no explanation. From my point-of-view they are all USB-C cables. None of them have any indication of what's different between them. They all connect to the same plugs. They all look the same but behave completely differently. I now know that I can't just carry 1 or 2 USB-C cables. I need to find out which ones work with which devices and keep track of that.