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Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max
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- jqpabc123 1y agoVery innovative --- if it had multiple ports and had been released in 2019.
- prima-facie 1y agoSite seems to be down?
- 1oooqooq 1y agoi was already sad the link wasn't righto.com when it's about chargers, and then it completely disappointed by not loading :) and it's barely past 10 votes.
- garrettgrimsley 1y agoIt eventually loaded for me. Alternatively: https://archive.is/tOC9a https://archive.is/tOC9a
- wildylion 1y agoFor me, it triggered the Google Safe Browsing blocklist (I'm using NextDNS).
- prima-facie 1y agoThank you! This was my issue as well.
- Teknomadix 1y agoGaN in action!
- sigmar 1y agoLooks very compact. "peak 60W, stable 40W" what length of time can it do 60W?
- epistasis 1y agoFrom the article: > The thermistor monitors the internal temperature and dynamically adjusts the power level to reduce output power when the temperature rises. My guess is that it's dependent on the ambient temperature, but that's just a guess! I can't imagine what the restriction on peak power would be other than temperature rise, though...
- brandall10 1y agoI have a generic slim GAN charger that does a similar stepdown, 65W -> 45W. Different form factor, but same 80g weight. Peak power tends to last about 10 minutes or so.
- mikepurvis 1y agoI bet their telemetry shows that a lot of people grab a quick charge while in the shower or the like, and that 10mins is a good amount of time for that. Or put another way, past ten mins it’s just as likely the phone will be plugged in for hours or overnight and the charge speed is irrelevant.
- jandrese 1y agoAlso, it may be to avoid overheating the phone. Otherwise you might expect to see a GAN charger where the body is a heat sink.
- mikepurvis 1y agoThat should be on the phone to increase its own resistance and slow down the power intake.
- fiatpandas 1y agoI believe it’s around 15 minutes.
- okasaki 1y agoThere doesn't really seem to be anything interesting about this. Also while the US plug makes some pretty compact power adapters, the effect is largely ruined in the EU and UK with their wider more cumbersome plugs.
- Lio 1y agoApple make an excellent UK 20W charger with folding pins. Physically the design is pretty much the same as this new 60/40W version, so I would expect them to eventually offer a 60/40W folding pin UK charger too. https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MUVT3B/A/20w-usb-c-power-adapter https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MUVT3B/A/20w-usb-c-pow...
- ridiculous_fish 1y agoWhat's interesting about it is that it supports SPR AVS, which is a new USB power delivery spec. I'm not aware of any other chargers that support this. https://www.chargerlab.com/complete-pd-3-2-spr-avs-specification-including-full-usb-pd-protocol-download/ https://www.chargerlab.com/complete-pd-3-2-spr-avs-specifica...
- torgoguys 1y ago> There doesn't really seem to be anything interesting about this. Agreed. Seriously, am I missing something or are the compact chargers from various other companies at least as compelling as this? I've got a nice one from Lenovo with high output and a smaller form factor than this. (Several other manufacturers have a similar size and output so nothing special about Lenovo here). The Apple one, while maybe smaller then their usual, is still bigger and appears to be short and "fat" which can limit where you can plug it sometimes. Or is just another "but this time it is from Apple" kind of thing. (All the vapor chamber talk from a few days ago had me scratching my head too.)
- jnieminen 1y agoHow does one distinguish between all the tiny devils in the details between all possible chargers to have the maximum efficiency in ones iPhone charging?
- coder543 1y agoThere really aren’t any nuances to be aware of here. If the charger can provide 45W or more, it will charge your iPhone 17 Pro as fast as it can go. If you have an older iPhone, you don’t even need that much. The Apple charger is mildly interesting because they made a slightly smaller than usual one that displays a dynamic behavior where it boosts up to 60W. That’s it. (If you actually mean efficiency of energy delivered, and not time efficiency… the energy efficiency of charging your own personal phone is completely irrelevant to anything. You could save many times that amount of energy per year by switching to a heat pump water heater, or a heat pump clothes dryer, but most people haven’t.)
- Gigachad 1y agoThere was some speculation that chargers would need the AVS spec to full speed charge the new iPhones, rather than just any USB-PD. Has that been tested yet?
- coder543 1y agoThis post[0] seemed to be the main source of confusion, but it has since been updated at the bottom to apologize and say it wasn’t true. You don’t need some kind of special charger. [0]: https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/13/iphone-17-pro-fast-charging-psa/ https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/13/iphone-17-pro-fast-charging-p...
- lxgr 1y agoThat said, the Apple 40W charger does support AVS according to the fine print on its exterior: https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/65105-135925-Dynamic-Power-Supply-Options-xl.jpg https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/65105-135925-Dynami... I could definitely see maximum sustained charging speeds only being sustained with optimal supply voltages, which minimizes converter loss (and thereby heat, which is the actual limiting factor for fast charging these days) in the phone.
- Reason077 1y agoHopefully Apple releases a UK version of this adapter soon. The design looks very similar to my beloved Apple UK 20W charger [1]. I’d buy a 40-60W version in a heartbeat! [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-20W-USB-C-Power-Adapter/dp/B0CX23VR2L https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-20W-USB-C-Power-Adapter/dp/B0...
- dwood_dev 1y agoSimilar design is a Ugreen Nexode 45 watt charger[0]. Folding prongs, May be ever so slightly larger. I just purchased one for an upcoming trip. 0: https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Foldable-Charger-Support-Compatible-Silver-Grey/dp/B0BKFWD1RV https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Foldable-Charger-Support-Com...
- Reason077 1y agoMy Apple 20W UK charger measures 49 × 45 × 30 mm, making it much smaller than this Ugreen one (50 x 50 x 42 mm). I'm guessing an Apple 40-60W UK version might come in somewhere in between in size? There's also the Anker Nano 45W, at 49 × 49 × 34 mm: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DPR2VYQF https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DPR2VYQF
- londons_explore 1y agoChina makes a 50 watt PD version with 2 ports already. https://a.aliexpress.com/_EuPD4j8 https://a.aliexpress.com/_EuPD4j8 It can deliver 50 watts entirely to 1 port, unlike most others where they mean 25 watts per port. $5.50 with free shipping.
- lotsofpulp 1y agoI’m seeing $17+.
- londons_explore 1y agoI think aliexpress A/B test prices. Clear cookies and refresh a few times and you'll get the $5.50 price.
- umpalumpaaa 1y agoThe pictures in the article are very nice and well done but I could not stop noticing the dirty yellow cable they used in some shots…
- lysace 1y agoDidn't see that, but they do tend to look that way after some real-world usage.
- umpalumpaaa 1y agoYeah its just a shame – the photos look so professional and clean otherwise.
- rr808 1y agoIs there a way to slow down these high power chargers? Sometimes I want a fast charge but mostly I want slow to getting hot. I realize overnight charging phones are smart enough to do this but otherwise seems to be impossible without having two different chargers.
- analog31 1y agoThe device being charged controls the charging current. Typically for smaller gadgets, a single resistor connected to the charge controller IC sets the current. Bigger things like laptops may be more sophisticated.
- 0_____0 1y agoRe: more sophisticated USB-PD now has a standard for having sink devices request a particular current from the charger, meaning that you could actually remove a converter from the sink device side, because with a programmable source, the current limiting happens on the power supply side. Cool stuff especially for small electronics like wearables. Generally though if you want to charge with USB-PD and accept all kinds of chargers, the sink device will have to have its own charge control PMIC. All this negotiation happens over a side band via the "CC" pins on the USB-C connector.
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- lxgr 1y agoThat's an optional USB-PD feature, though (called PPS). Devices that support it can potentially charge more efficiently (and by extension more quickly, if they're limited by heat dissipation), but they can't rely on any USB-PD adapter supporting it. It's also different from AVS (which Apple's adapter seems to support), which allows controlling the voltage in finer steps, but not limiting the current in the same way that PPS does.
- BadBadJellyBean 1y agoIt's up to the device. If I have an alarm for the morning my pixel 7 slow charges over the night so that it's full when the alarm goes off. Modern charging standards give all the control to the client device.
- jaygreco 1y agoIs it just me or are those chokes a little bit messy? They look…kinda sloppy vs what I would expect.
- niccl 1y agoI thought that. they look hand-wound. I'm sure they can't be, unless this is a prototype that escaped somehow
- brcmthrowaway 1y agoAll this info but wheres the rating out of 10?
- ryukoposting 1y agoThis is very cool, I might actually get one to charge my laptop. That being said... I can't be the only person who consciously avoids fast-charging my phone. My whole apartment is full of wireless charging pads intentionally plugged into weak chargers (wireless charging avoids putting wear on the USB port). 60 watts can't possibly be healthy for a battery small enough to fit into a phone.
- Marsymars 1y agoHow do you manage that with magsafe/qi 2 chargers if you want to benefit from the greater efficiency and magnetic alignment? They’re all USB-C, and you can’t trivially buy USB-C chargers that are good for only 5W.
- runjake 1y agoWe have a bunch that are USB-A to micro-USB to the charger? If you want to use the newer chargers, I’d think you’d want cooling and airflow. At some point, I want to build a MagSafe stand with a low RPM silent fan on it.
- Marsymars 1y agoWell I want the newer chargers because they have better efficiency, but I still want them fanless and limited to 5W, which is why I ask.
- ryukoposting 1y agoMy phone doesn't support magnetic alignment, so I'm not really concerned with that. While I can't speak for other phones, my S24 has a setting that limits charging power to 10W, which is fine enough for me. I'd love a 5W limiter, though. The rest of the formula is a combination of Apple and Ikea. Stick to the name brand stuff, the horrors within the average 10-30W USB charger would make any electrical engineer cower in fear. I really like Ikea's cheaper Smahagel chargers, by the way. They have very good electrical separation, they're cheap, and only run at 5W. The way they're shaped makes it easier to cram a bunch of them into a power strip, which is nice. Can't speak for the USB-C Ikea chargers though.
- jorvi 1y agoIts so classically Apple that just when most brands are starting to standardize on PPS (Programmable Power Supply) to allow any voltage to be used, they come with an alternate standard AVS (Adjustable Voltage Supply) just to force people to buy their certified chargers. The sole benefit of AVS over PPS is that AVS goes beyond 100W. But these chargers only do 60W. And it would have cost Apple almost nothing to also add PPS to their phones and chargers. Edit: hello fanboys :)
- CharlesW 1y agoAVS was created by the USB PD specification team (the USB Promoter Group/USB-IF), not Apple. AVS was introduced as part of PD 3.1 in 2021, albeit for >100W only. I believe Google was technically first out of the gate with a charger that supports the PDS 3.2 flavor of AVS.
- jorvi 1y agoYou're completely ignoring that Apple is purposely choosing not to also add support PPS and instead use AVS so they can push people from generic Anker / Belkin / Baseus PPS chargers to their own Apple chargers. For a while anyway. It would make more sense if they used it for their MacBook chargers, but AFAIK the sole charger they having going beyond 100W is the 16" Pro charger at 140W. Every other Macbook charger is between 45W-96W.
- happyopossum 1y agoThis is coming across as more than a bit delusional. Adding a new standard to a charger is not “forcing” anyone to avoid other chargers in any sense. AVS adds functionality to this charger, it doesn’t take it away from other ones.
- dangus 1y agoIf AVS is only part of the USB-C PD spec over 100W then yes Apple is doing something non-standard and not "adding a new standard." They're going to make 3rd party charger providers add some Apple-specific logic that isn't in the PD spec and isn't used by any other devices if this is true. If this is true, then if you own a 3rd party charger that is up-to-date with the very latest USB PD specs, your charger is going to charge an iPhone 17/Air/17 Pro more slowly than buying Apple's new charger. (I don't claim to know the technical details of whether AVS is part of the spec below 100W or not, I am just going by the comments in this thread and speaking of the hypothetical)
- LorenDB 1y agoI wonder what temperature this thing hits. I have an even smaller 65 W GAN charger[0] that gets pretty toasty under load. I can't really see Apple wanting to ship a toasty charger, though. [0]: https://rollingsquare.com/products/supertiny-the-smallest-65w-gan-charger-ever https://rollingsquare.com/products/supertiny-the-smallest-65...
- nenenejej 1y agoChargers that get to hot then thermal cut off (out of action for an hour) are so annoying.
- thenthenthen 1y agoI remember the old macbook pro chargers, they and the cable would get so hot it melted the insulation of the cable (over time). Not to mention the self-desoldering GPU’s inside the actual laptops.
- joecool1029 1y agoI don't think it was heat melting the insulation, blame the TPE used reacting. Anyways thread from the last time Apple charger stuff was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28054090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28054090
- thenthenthen 1y agoAh thats interesting! The self desoldering gpu’s was also an issue with compliance, switching from leaded to lead free solder iirc.
- dylan604 1y agoI had 2 cables that melted like this. I eventually bought the newer version with a different insulator. Used with the same charger and same laptop, but no melting.
- jofzar 1y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/1nfhctl/hands_on_review_apples_4060w_dynamic_power_adapter/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/1nfhctl/hands... Hot but not too hot
- _-_-__-_-_- 1y agoI have an Anker nano II that get's very hot while charging my laptop (~25-35W average). I should run a thermometer on it. If I held it for more than a second, I might get a burn.
- faangguyindia 1y agoi went with ugreen gan charger, it has outlasted my apple chargers.
- qnleigh 1y agoWhy do so many websites disable pinch-to-zoom for mobile users? This page is full of interesting close-up photos, but at least on my Android phone, I can't zoom in to see any of the details. Who benefits from disabling this feature?
- cortesoft 1y agoI am able to pinch to zoom fine on my iPhone
- dicknuckle 1y agoThe issue seems to be with Chrome based browsers.
- __float 1y agoThe website explicitly disables it; they have a viewport meta tag with: initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no I think it's more likely Safari these days just ignores this, because of the very problem OP complained about.
- tyleo 1y agoYeah, I actually think Safari has the right behavior here. I use zoom features all the time on all my devices. I actually prefer pinch zoom than developers implementing accessibility features which often don’t test all hardware and get glitchy at certain zoom levels.
- kpw94 1y agoA workaround: Long press on image, "open image in a new tab"
- GuB-42 1y agoThat's something you can override in the accessibility options, both in Chrome and in Firefox. IMHO, it should be the default, I have never been in a situation where it caused a problem, but I have been in plenty of situations where it helped.
- jstrieb 1y agoThis teardown is great! At my work, we have an X-ray machine for PCB reverse engineering. On Fridays we throw in random stuff from around the office, and sometimes make videos about what we find inside. A few weeks ago we released an X-ray teardown of several other, older chargers. Very interesting to compare with these fancy new ones! https://youtu.be/4h4qabPsPfI https://youtu.be/4h4qabPsPfI
- copperx 1y agoWould a CT scanner work better for your use case? (ignoring cost)
- arccy 1y agodon't those have giant magnets....
- tecleandor 1y agoThat'd be an MRI. A CT is, simplifying, an x-ray machine that takes lots of images in slices, then analyze them with certain algorithms to reconstruct 2D and 3D images of the interior of the 'subject'.
- cenamus 1y agoWell, not really in slices, but from all angles. So with a computer you can reconstruct the density of whatever you're imaging and also do the slices
- tecleandor 1y agoYeah true, I was still half asleep and couldn't explain further. It's more like you image from lots of different viewpoints, then calculate a slice, then join the slices to form a volume. It's better explained visually (at least to me) :P
- Aurornis 1y ago
- geerlingguy 1y agoApple has a history of some quality and extremely compact power supplies. I have to wonder if they have a team with an EE paired with an origami artist, with how creative some of the layouts get.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y agoDoes Apple even design their own chargers? I know previous chargers have been built by Samsung, Flextronics, and other power electronics companies. Apple sells Anker chargers from within their online store and possibly retail too so I figured they threw in the towel long ago. Honestly it seems quite overpriced when you can get a similar Anker GaN charger for much less. And no, this isn't 2004 anymore, non-OEM chargers are outstanding as long as they're not $2 crap off AliExpress. When Apple stopped including the charger in the box with iPhone as a sleazy money grab, it was a tacit admission that non-OEM chargers reigned supreme. Still didn't stop the pious and devout from shelling out an extra $25 though.
- Moto7451 1y agoFor a while Samsung made a lot of everything Apple made. I think that’s maybe more coincidence than ODM. That said, if it were the case it wouldn’t be the first time. The LG 5K display was very much an Apple/LG project the former wasn’t happy to put their name on (in its defense, I have a revision 2 model and think it’s great). Logitech made Apple keyboards and Mice for a long time (no idea if that’s still the case) and would happily let you know in System Profiler or a manufacturing sticker somewhere in the product. In the 90s, many printing products were straight up HP and Cannon printers with a rainbow Apple logo. I’m guessing we wouldn’t really hear as much about the ODM rebrands of minor devices that work out that don’t make it obvious what they are.
- baybal2 1y ago[dead]
- fuzzfactor 1y ago>Does Apple even design their own chargers? Good question. For this one it says right on the package, designed by Apple in California.
- ksec 1y agoI wish they could do a 2 port version. During holiday I tend to charge both my Phone and Battery pack at the same time over night. Unless All Hotels around the world start doing integrated GaN 30 to 40W charging port as standard I will still need to bring my own USB-C Adaptor. Even the same 60W max, 30W per port is enough to charge both to full in 2-3 hours.
- copperx 1y agoWhy would it have to be GaN? a 40W charger wouldn't suffice at a hotel?
- Zee2 1y agoFrom my experience every hotel integrated charger is barely 5V 0.5A, much less PD or anything else. Parent comment was talking about the integrated usb chargers in rooms, if I’m understanding correctly (hence the need to still bring their own)
- hazmatt 1y agoConfused since 2x10W sounds adequate for their overnight charging. (Which is still an upgrade for hotels, but a rather old one..)
- arvinsim 1y agoUGreen and Anker has me already covered for these types of powerful but small chargers. They are not limited to one port like the Apple chargers are.
- dylan604 1y agoAre they full power to both ports simultaneously, or do they split between them?
- dmonitor 1y agoThe one thing I like about the Apple charging bricks is how on certain models the prongs can be swapped out for a cable, which is very useful when the wall plug is cramped. However, this device doesn't seem to incorporate that so I'm not sure what benefit it has over an Anker.
- chvid 1y agoGreat that Apple is making smaller chargers. I use a 65w anker 715 charger which weighs 120g for my laptop - ridiculously small compared to the massive 140w charger the laptop came with.
- londons_explore 1y agoI use a tiny 15 watt charger for my laptop. It can just about charge the laptop whilst web browsing, but if anything CPU heavy happens then the battery discharges a bit. But over a whole workday I find the charger is enough, and I prefer a smaller lighter charger over the ability to run a game 24x7.
- chvid 1y agoYes. I probably could do with an even smaller charger.
- fuzzfactor 1y agoI have one of the first Thinkpads to have a USB-c socket, and the PC can be recharged slowly that way using a low-wattage adapter, but then it will not draw any power at all from the charger when you turn the laptop on, you get a message informing you of this.
- londons_explore 1y agoInstall the BIOS update. after my update it charges on everything except a 5V only adapter, although it doesn't tell the OS it's charging unless it's on a 45 watt or more supply.
- fuzzfactor 1y agoThanks for this, looks like there is a BIOS update, I'll give it a try soon. We have one a couple years older before USB-c and no more updated BIOS for that one though.
- bArray 1y agoAmazing tear down and such compact design, but it's such a shame that these devices are glued together. Every time you see a glued device, just think "future e-waste".
- madeofpalk 1y agoThis criticism seems fair of devices with consumable parts, like batteries. But of a charger? How can this be anything other than waste once it's no longer useful?
- oulipo2 1y agoExactly! Shameless plug: we do a repairable design for e-bike battery which uses no glue (https://gouach.com https://gouach.com)
- fuzzfactor 1y agoNot bad, I thought the folding prongs on this Apple adapter made it a fairly shameless plug itself :)
- oulipo2 1y agohaha :)
- bArray 1y agoReally nice, and in the future those cells could be upcycled or repaired. The design is also quite dense. To be clear, I have designed high-density electronics myself which were repairable - it's tough but doable.
- oulipo2 1y agoExactly! It's known that recycling pristine cells that haven't been glued/welded etc makes it much easier and efficient to recover lithium, so that's also a win for recycling
- pppp 1y agoAnyone else think those inductor windings look sloppy like they were done by hand instead of a machine?
- tyleo 1y agoIf anyone is in the market for power adapters I find SlimQ to be top tier. https://slimq.life/ https://slimq.life/
- pshirshov 1y agoWould you bother to explain your motivation?
- tyleo 1y agoMy motivation for buying one was that I used to have a huge laptop charger and my SlimQ is much easier to carry around. My motivation for sharing is that I like the product and thought others might too. People responding in a thread about power adapters might be in the market for power adapters so I want to help them find good products.
- lloydatkinson 1y agoI was mildly impressed until it got to the wall of slack-jawed selfies featuring titles like “gen-streamer” and my scam alarm bell started ringing.
- tyleo 1y agoI own a couple of these devices and they are the real deal but I understand how that can be off putting. Full disclosure: they use some Chinese shipping service I’ve never heard of that may raise scam alerts further. The adapters are smaller than comparables I have and work with every device I’ve tried. That being said, I haven’t done a teardown and I’ve only used them about half a year so far.
- SomeHacker44 1y agoI also like these chargers. I use adapters to several companies' proprietary charging ports. I like they will do 240W in a SFF and have bonus USB-C ports for my phone and tablet (or whatever).
- snops 1y agoThe best part I find about ChargerLab teardowns is identifying all the passive and discrete components. Western distributors tend to only stock western/japanese brands of these, but they can make up a sizable fraction of the BOM (especially electrolytic capacitors) so knowing who the big players are comfortable with using is very handy. LCSC stock a lot, but its nice to know which suppliers have been proven in use.
- Aurornis 1y ago> but its nice to know which suppliers have been proven in use. Watch out. Some of the suppliers you’ve never heard of are capable of delivering good parts to companies like Apple but still have ultra cheap parts available retail. You can’t rely on brand names in this space.
- fnord77 1y agoI'm really impressed by Anker's 30w charger that's the size of Apple's original 5w charger.
- ellisv 1y agoI wish they'd discount their 35W dual port chargers or that I could find a similar 3rd party charger. My main criteria are (1) dual USB-C ports to charge multiple devices in one location, (2) compact enough to not block the other receptacle, and (3) ports face down/to the side so can fit between the wall and furniture. Unfortunately most chargers fail at least one of these.
- mkoc 1y agoDepending on your location and exact geometry needs the IKEA SJÖSS might do it.
- ellisv 1y agoThe IKEA SJÖSS has ports on the front face rather than down or side.
- octo888 1y agoThis just made me realise why I've never actually used the one I purchased. My brain is like "with them sticking out, you'll be clumsy and damage your cables" Makes them harder to plug in behind furniture too.
- nja 1y agoThis isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it may fit the use case. I've recently been replacing some of the wiring in my house as part of a renovation, and I discovered that Leviton sells outlets with PD USB-C built in now! Not talking about the useless 2A USB-A "built-in" chargers of yore, now they actually have proper PD up to 60W! They do also sell non-PD, so it requires some careful checking of the model numbers. And the 60W one is pretty large (the in-wall part) so it might not quite fit in an existing wallbox if it is a small one. But briefly: - T5636: two USB-C PD, up to 60W total / 60W individual or 30W each if both in use - T5635: two USB-C PD, up to 30W total / 30W individual or 15W each for both - T5634: one USB-C PD and one USB-A. USB-A is 10W and USB-C is up to 50W (even if both are in use) They also make T8xx versions of these that have 20A receptacles (NEMA 5-20R) but those are harder to find. They also make other T56xx/T58xx which have non-PD USB-C, good for places like bathrooms where shavers/etc work fine on 5V. I've found that putting a few of these around has eliminated a lot of the Anker chargers I used to have sticking out everywhere. They're completely in-wall and they leave both outlets free. If I need 100W for my computer, I'll still use a separate charger, but otherwise these are fine. The only point they don't hit on your list is the ports facing down, but because they're flush at the wall, that means they don't interfere with furniture (any more than having any plug plugged into the outlets at all would). If you're in Europe/elsewhere, not sure if other manufacturers make similar devices. I know Legrand makes some 30W PD ones in the US market, and as they're French, maybe they make them for others as well.
- SomeHacker44 1y agoRegarding ChargerLAB's products: I have an HP Zbook G1a laptop that uses 140W USB PD charging. However, except for the HP charger, I have not found a charger or cable pair that works. After a while they start cycling charging on and off. Under heavy load that happens almost immediately. Under light loads it might take hours. Is there a ChargerLAB product that can explain what exactly is going on between the computer and the charger? I have used Anker, Insignia and some random USB-C PD chargers and cables rated for 100-140-240W from various vendors.
- systemswizard 1y agoThey’re doing a handshake with the adapter to see it’s not an HP charger, Dell does this too on its docks
- nicolaslem 1y agoI don't think that's it because I have seen some reports of this behavior online with the official charger.
- nicolaslem 1y agoI have this laptop and this is so frustrating. I am hoping that they can fix this with a firmware update.
- mikeinseattle 1y agoVery cool to see more incredibly detailed and well photographed teardowns outside of Ifixit. Wonder if they could compare this to GAN options from Anker or other competitors? Still kind of annoyed how much my apple power adapter weighs, but I'm too cheap to really buy another one just so it weighs less haha.
- qingcharles 1y agoIn the age of ultra-miniaturization it's fun to still see through-hole components that would be recognizable to someone from 100 years ago.