Which Wall Charger? Need Help?

#1

Hi All,

Too many chargers to choose from. Hopefully you can all help.

I have the following I need to charge and want to consolidate with one charger.

  • USB-C Macbook Pro
  • DSLR battery charger USB
  • Gimbal Batter Charger USB
  • Iphone Cable USB

Worse case everything will be on, best case one or two items.

Stelios

1 Like
#2

How old is your mac book pro as in what year is it? And does it have the touchbar?

#3

To be clear I do not have a Macbook so I might be missing something but figured I’d try to help. Not sure if you only wanted a “wall charger” or if the “desktop charger” styles were ok. I am assuming you would want something that supports USB-C with Power Delivery. For example these two:


1 Like
#4

I have and used this Wall Charger for my iPhone drone/rc truck battery pack and it works great https://www.anker.com/products/variant/PowerPort-Speed-PD-5-Ports/A2056111

#5

So 4 ports and one is USB PD

So this one looks closest match

Check though your Macbook is supported for USB PD, I see some some are some are not.

The fallback, safer would be to have two

  • one four port for the lower 3 items
  • your existing Macbook charger or one proven to work with it

If you go for a wall charger i have this and I like it

Wall vs Desktop chargers

  • the smaller 2-port type for travel are good
  • if you are going to a known place where the power socket is right next to you like a known hotel room with socket built into the bedside cabient, then the wall 4 port chargers are most compact
  • most other times if you’re going into unknown places the desk charger is better because its got a longer cord, like in hotels where the socket is behind the bed and you have to pull bed out and connect in the cord push bed back or the socket on a wall.
2 Likes
#6

What would be your ideal wall charger with PD?

What is the max wattage you can probably have to keep it from being too big and heavy and therefore fall out of the socket?

Do you think Anker could somehow manage 60W?

I’m wondering what the dual port PD charger is. I kind of doubt that is 60W just judging off the picture.

a6e3021e57af4e464819a7bea9d1794211f2da04.png1202Ă—696 372 KB

1 Like
#7

Personally I would accept a less powerful wall charger in the USA as the USA wall socket does not withstand a heavy weight which protrudes far out from the wall and pulls itself out of the socket. I would expect that weight and size would make for some upper Wattage level.

What lower Wattage does is change your behavior to be more angst to use a wall socket whenever one presents, such as when flying.

Desktop chargers should go up to a much higher level, I’d expect at least a 100W desktop charger. Then say it was a 6 port 100W charger, it would have say two USB-PD ports and if you only used 1 of the 6 ports it could output 100W, or if you used say two USB-PD ports and attach two 100W input devices they would compete and get 50W each, and as you added more devices the 100W is shared further, such as if you used all 6 ports and the USB non-PD were all pulling at 12W limit then you’d use 48W on the 4 non-PD and so the two PD ports would get 26W each if at least 30W devices attached.

1 Like
#8

Just get a wall charger.

#9

Yes it does have the touchbar

#10

In that case then I would but This and the use of a direct usb -C to usb-C cable such as This Thunderbolt cable for the macbook and you can use any other usb cable for your other devices