Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers
by KirinDave on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:29PM
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But these are retail prices in a discussion of manufacturers and distributors deciding what to include?
Having cut open such a cable recently to help me understand the spec and having ordered parts and integrated a USB-PD board into my project recently, I can tell you the actual costs if you're not in retail-markup land are substantially less.
We're more or less past the point where "USB-C smart cables are $40" is informed by anything but retail markup, in my opinion.
But I guess I'm only doing the bare minimum on the data side?
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers
by ineedasername on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:24PM
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Are these all reliably full-spec? I'd like to know so I can purchase accordingly. Honestly before this I didn't even know some were not full spec.
* $40 for an Apple 40 Gbps 100W 2.6ft cable [5]
* $30 for an Anker 100W 40Gbps 1.6ft cable [1]
* $20 for a Nekteck 100W 40Gbps 1.6ft cable [4]
* $12 for an Anker 60W 5Gbps 3ft cable [2]
* $9 for an Anker 60W 480 Mbps 3ft cable [3]
So, $30 isn't the cheapest full spec cable on Amazon, but it's not too far off.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076D76DRQ/ [2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EMIIFCU/ [3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A6G0CTQ/ [4] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072HMHZ7D/ [5] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQ4H2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-u...