Where can I find a good quality USB socket?

[tojj29]

Regular USB cables send around 2.5 Watts of power to your gadget's battery, while fast-charging cables can send as high as 120 watts, powering up phones in half an hour or one hour. If you have a fast-charging adapter and use a standard USB cable to charge your device, the cable won't charge your device faster. I use an app called ampere on my phone that tells me how fast its charging.

Brilliant, thanks Barney, I'll download that app and see what it's up to. Appreciate that, thanks again

 

[TommoUK]

Optimate do some good quality kit

O108 USB Charger

O108 USB Charger

optimate.co.uk

I just bought a Rockster which does not seem to have anywhere suitable to out a USB socket so this might prove to be the best option of those mentioned in this thread.

Of course any and all advice would be welcomed

 

[GSian]

I use the lead that comes with the Quadlock wireless charger head, plugged into the USB A socket, and it charges my phone quicker than it uses it using satnav through Chigee.

 

[er-minio]

Regular USB cables send around 2.5 Watts of power to your gadget's battery, while fast-charging cables can send as high as 120 watts, powering up phones in half an hour or one hour. If you have a fast-charging adapter and use a standard USB cable to charge your device, the cable won't charge your device faster. I use an app called ampere on my phone that tells me how fast its charging.

I think we are having some confusion between amperes and watts values.

Wattage varies from 20 to 60W for mobile phones. Laptops need more, but this is not the case.
Try to aim at a USB socket that can manage up to ~5 amperes (on both sockets at the same time if two are present) to have enough for fast charging. Output depends on the socket's own electronics. A lot of the cheap ones can manage 1 or 2 amperes max.

 

[BarneyGsa]

I think we are having some confusion between amperes and watts values.

Wattage varies from 20 to 60W for mobile phones. Laptops need more, but this is not the case.
Try to aim at a USB socket that can manage up to ~5 amperes (on both sockets at the same time if two are present) to have enough for fast charging. Output depends on the socket's own electronics. A lot of the cheap ones can manage 1 or 2 amperes max.

Info was cut and pasted from Google but was only meant to explain that no matter how good your charger is if you use a wrong cable you will only get slow charge.

 

[Hatcho]

Info was cut and pasted from Google but was only meant to explain that no matter how good your charger is if you use a wrong cable you will only get slow charge.

Had the same issue. Phone battery draining while plugged into the bike and running Calimoto. The app is known to be power hungry, but the problem was augmented by the use of a pants cable.

 

[TommoUK]

I just bought a Rockster which does not seem to have anywhere suitable to out a USB socket so this might prove to be the best option of those mentioned in this thread.

Of course any and all advice would be welcomed

I guess I should have mentioned i have a BMW Navigator II sat nav ... i cut the cigarette lighter type plug off, as it kept disconnecting if there was a matchstick on the road and put on a usb plug
it works fine on my deauville and NC750
I have absolutely no ideas about voltages or amps.... but i reckoned al had done was changed the plug.

 

[tojj29]

I had the same problem once and it turned out to be the cable i was using not the charger.

Took your advice and got myself some new fast cables ( usbc to usbc ) and a PD adapter for the DIN socket. The phone not only charges FAST, but it comes up and says it's charging SUPERFAST. The usbc cables are Silkland 240w, brilliant.
Thanks again