🐰 Dan I've been pulling five amps through this connector for five years now and it's fine

🦝 FIVE YEARS *IS* BRAND NEW GET OFF MY LAWN

🐁 We made a new invention where your monitors, network, controls and sound all go through one hole

🦝 so when that hole wears out, as all electric holes eventually do, the plan is...?

🐁 we're gonna make it wear out FASTER by pulling FIVE

🐁 SMEGGING

🐁 AMPS

🐁 through your one (1) Omni-Hole™

Five amps is about 31.25 quintillion (31,250,000,000,000,000,000) free electrons tryna squeeze through your hole in one second

They rub up against each other and that's why things get hot. A significant part of my job is replacing connectors that have burned to a crisp and gotten so angry that they've gone "Right, hell with this" and started to desolder themselves from the board

Electrons are real and they have mass, the more current you draw the more Physically Big the connector has to be, you cannot fix this with software or investment

I did fix laptops too back in the day, and there were basically two things that went wrong

1) the bit between the motherboard and the screen was often a crappy little flexi ribbon cable coiled around the hinge like a mainspring, it wears out as you open and close the lappy and a wire eventually cracks, your screen would only work at certain angles and then it'd die completely

2) the charging hole wears out and you have to hold the wire just right

Aye there was sometimes other stuff, but those were 90% of the problems.

The best laptops - my beloved Toshiba Tecra M4 - had the charging hole as its own whole separate little assembly that plugged onto the motherboard on an internal connector like a JST or something

So you'd cycle the barrel jack connector a thousand times, and then you'd throw away the barrel jack hole and cycle the JST connector once, like the hour hand on the life clock of your motherboard

(the crap ones had the power socket soldered to the board and it was always a right bastard to desolder 'cause of the big ground plane sucking up all your heat)

Tryna jam all that information AND ALSO POWER through that tiny hole is probably gonna involve buying cables that are actually good and, like...

You shouldn't do that. You should never buy good changing cables! When you mate a connector, metal bends and fatigues and eventually breaks or gives up its sproing, any time two objects interact Something Has To Wear! The wear has to go *somewhere!*

Think I'm buying a ten-dollar charging wire? Am I bollocks, I don't want to have to spend hours fiddling around trying to put a new charging hole on my hundreds-of-dollars phone! Gimme the shit ones, let them wear out instead! Five for a tenner, that's the way!

But I dunno, something tells me I might need more than a trip to the pound shop for what USB-C's asking

@ifixcoinops usb c negotiates how much power it will send or receive based in part on the cable you use. Use the wrong cable and it will charge at 500mA.

From my experience, you want to buy good cables. If you don’t buy good cables then all kinds of weird shit happens. Like the power brick might refuse to charge the phone faster than the phone is using the battery. But the same cable will work just fine with another brick