240W Data Speed?
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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What, never heard of powerline networking? ๐
What-bits per sometimes
Available via kickstarter. ๐
Already met it's goal.
When it is a realized actual product, I'll be happy to look into it.
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
So is this review based on a prototype?
Kickstarter = no
Did you get burned once?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
If the article wasn't written in low-contrast, i could actually read it.