At least to get the maximum output… Great point!
[New Release] 5A PowerLine III USB-C Now Available!
I’ll grab a few of these to replace existing cables anyway.
Magnetic adapters would be a good option too
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Will there be 1ft and 3ft versions as well? Above is only 6ft mentioned
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The need for thicker and quality cables increase with cable length. At 6ft there’s plenty of places for a bad wire to resist 5A and age the cable faster.
Buts never forget that USB being a low voltage higher current protocol is never intentioned by engineers to be a long cable. Power losses and how much copper and manufacturing costs lower in a higher voltage lower current such as the main electrical grid.
So Powerstrips to bring the wall sockets nearer, corded wall chargers to bring the usb socket nearer, and the shortest possible USB cable, are truths independent of suppliers.
For shorter like 1ft cable, you probably are going to be fine using non-Anker cable, carry a spare and save money. 3ft is very popular and I’m sure would make sense from Anker. Anyone asking for 10ft needs to understand the consequences on cost, thickness or performance.
6ft from Anker solves the corner case earlier and I expect 3ft soon. 1ft probably never / long wait. You could probably just certify the existing 3A 3ft cables are good enough.
Everyone with their box of Powerline MicroB cables they paid extra know you can over spend on cables.
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At 25m40s this cable is shown.
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Not exactly, that is the older PowerLine II version.
Thinner (more flexible), more durable, and more expensive.
UPDATE
Anker’s 6’ 5A PowerLine III USB-C is now available to order from amazon.com for $17.99 and should begin shipping immediately.
That price for a 100W cable 6ft is worth having.
Gets my buy recommendation, if it is $18 now I’d expect $14.49 - $14.99 shortly.
Most of us cannot benefit, but if you’re seeking to own fewest cables, the date this one ends in a draw unused is some years.
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Hello! Is there a listing for it in black (or will there be soon)? The link only has a white cable but this post’s cable is black. Super excited been waiting for this cable for a while!!
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Yes, the black version (and other lengths) are coming soon.
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Lifetime warranty too! Awesome
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But if a cable stops being used, so stops being bent, it will last much much longer. So basically lifetime = life of the context you bought the cable = longevity of the port type on all of your devices.
What is a good lifetime of a port type these days? 5 years? Say you used a cable every day twice, so 4 bends/day, 5 years = 7300 bends.
With USB 4 coming, 40Gbit everywhere, USB 100W 5A, this is one of the few cables you might still be using to charge with in 5 years, but this cable is not USB 4, so you’d probably only use it to charge something older 5 years from now, a device you’d not be using often, so the cable is not being moved often, not bending often…
My point - lifetime is a meaningless word in technology. Lifetime is a marketing word. Marketing is to get you pay extra $$$. What about the cheaper lifetimes cables Anker made, say, 2 years ago? … How are those lifetime warranty USB A to Micro B cables you paid extra $ for being bent daily now?
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Anker never offered any micro-USB cables with lifetime warranties, but I get your point. Lightning will be applicable soon.
The lifetime warranty will render meaningless well earlier than the end of an average lifespan. Still nice to have as it’s longer than 18 months.
Some people are probably waiting for a lifetime Thunderbolt 3 cable.
That makes more sense because Thunderbolt3 carries data, so an alternating current so causes induction which will ring off any resistance (Impedence).
But most here are thinking power, DC, so it simply has to conduct.
For a fun way to understand, if you’re bored:
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While I agree to an extent that the word lifetime is a marketing word used more and more nowadays, I’d rather have that than 18 warranty or 2 year warranty.
And as long as the lifetime warranty words don’t affect the price too much, I’m ok if they use it for marketing purposes
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… and so we get to why it is worth paying extra in the case of a C-C cable.
A Warranty is ultimately marketing, because if the cable fails, you are simply going to get a free replacement, a replacement you indirectly paid for in the initial purchase, the vendor factored the expected failure rate % into the price, so you paid for the word “warranty”.
I could buy 3 Amazon basics cables for the same cost of Anker cable, and so long as only 2 failed, it is the same cost.
So then we move it from warranty to reliability, and from there into travel, and particularly USB C. If you have to travel and carry 2 cables in case one fails, and if you had N port types, you need Nx2 cables, and if MicroB, A, C, Lightning, you end up with 2 of every cable type, so cable reliability = more weight + volume carrying. At home, it is irrelevant.
But if you push all cables to C-C, then you then need N+1, not Nx2, as you need only 1 spare cable, not 1 spare of each type.
So as C-C is agnostic, it is one of the few cables to be worth paying a bit extra for. Everything else, just pick 2 cheap ones and test the bad ones into the trash.
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OMG you guys even tagged me so that I would know the black one is available! Amazing - already ordered one!! Thanks!
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