[PLUG] Universality of USB Cables

John Meissen john at meissen.org
Wed May 18 21:30:48 UTC 2016


USB-C cables can be tricky. If you ever intend to get anything using one I 
recommend you read Benson Leung's reviews:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/s0Inv

In fact, I would recommend reading them anyway. A bad cable can damage your 
equipment.

john-

gently at gmail.com said:
> 
> My understanding is that while they will all be usable to some extent,
> there are differences in cabling that actually matter for transfer speed or
> power transfer:
> 
> USB3 cables are in some way physically different and enable much higher
> transfer speed:
> http://www.howtogeek.com/222400/do-usb-3.0-connections-require-usb-3.0-cables/
> 
> Fast-charge-capable usb cables with Type C (there is no upside down to the
> plugs - symmetrical) have some special sauce that allows for fast
> charging.  I don't claim to understand how after a lot of reading, but it
> seems like some are better than others (eg, charging is faster with one
> cable than with another, measured in some way that struck me as
> "sufficiently scientific for my belief-needs")
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Aaron Burt wrote:
> >
> > > Yep, that's the idear.
> >
> >    I thunk so, Aaron. Thanks.
> >
> > > And you can get 'em from at the dollar store.
> >
> >    Really?? I'll have to check this out at the local one. Guess they're
> > now a
> > commodity and used for cell phones, too.
> >
> > Rich





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