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Review of a tester extracting the functionality of USB-C cables (www.getusb.info)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

240W Data Speed?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What, never heard of powerline networking? 😂

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

What-bits per sometimes

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Available via kickstarter. 😑

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Already met it's goal.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When it is a realized actual product, I'll be happy to look into it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They do have a prior project that has been delivered successfully.

Basically the same device minus the screen with just a bare board with LED indicators and powered by a coin cell battery:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/electr/c2c-caberqu-usb-c-cable-tester

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

So is this review based on a prototype?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kickstarter = no

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did you get burned once?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yep, the product was already backed and they were supposedly shipping. Luckily it was a very cheap thing, I did it mostly to try the thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why is it not possible to do this by connecting phone to pc and running this as software? This is cool but would be nice to avoid the extra hardware.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I'm guessing the hardware is necessary for full info. Your phone probably doesn't support 240W so it wouldn't be able to tell if the cable was able to hit that charging rate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Because you could fry your PC.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/google-engineer-finds-usb-type-c-cable-thats-so-bad-it-fried-his-chromebook-pixel/ USB Type-C cable so bad it fries Google engineer's Chromebook Pixel

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

With the paragraph covering counterfeit cables, I wonder if it tests incorrectly mapped pinouts. I recall that being a pretty wild QA issue with a bunch of previous cables. Even name brand ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If the article wasn't written in low-contrast, i could actually read it.