$19.95 Inc GST
20w is the number Apple settled on, and the rest of the industry followed. It is what takes an iPhone from flat to about half in half an hour, and it is the figure printed on the little white cube Apple stopped putting in the box. A 20w usb c charger is the one you actually need — and this one has a second port.
A GaN wall plug with one USB-C port and one USB-A port, fixed Australian pins, 20W in total. USB Power Delivery on the C side, Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 on the A side, and it costs less than twenty dollars.
The USB-A port is the reason to pick this over a single-port cube. Not every cable in the house has been replaced, and the one in the car or the bedside drawer is usually still USB-A. This charges the phone on one port and the earbuds, watch dock or older handset on the other.
The two numbers look close and are not interchangeable in practice.
18W was the previous tier — the fast-charge figure quoted for the iPhone 11 generation and a great many Android handsets before USB-PD settled down. 20W is the current one, and it is what Apple’s own adapter delivers.
On a modern iPhone the difference shows up in the first half hour, which is exactly the window most people charge in. This 20w charger is on the current tier, not the one before it — which is the whole point of buying a 20w fast charger rather than whatever is in the drawer.
Gallium nitride switches faster than the silicon in an older power supply and wastes less of the input as heat. Less waste heat means less material to get rid of it, which means a 20w usb c charger the size of the plug itself rather than the size of the plug plus a housing designed to shed warmth.
It runs cooler in the socket, too — the same efficiency that shrinks it is the reason it does not get uncomfortable to unplug.
At full speed: iPhone 12 through the current models, Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy S and A series, iPad Air and Mini, AirPods, Galaxy Buds, smartwatches, fitness trackers, e-readers, handheld consoles on standby.
Slowly, but it will: an iPad Pro, a Nintendo Switch, a small tablet. These want more than 20W to charge at their own rate and will accept less without complaining.
Not for a laptop. A MacBook Air or an XPS 13 will trickle from twenty watts — enough to hold the battery steady while it sleeps, not enough to charge it while you work. If that is what you are after, this is the wrong charger and we would rather tell you now; the bigger bricks in the range are built for it.
Twenty watts is the total, not the figure for each port. Plug in two devices and the supply divides between them — which is fine for a phone and a set of earbuds, and slow if you expect two phones to charge at full rate at once.
We have asked the supplier for the exact per-port split and will publish it here when we have it rather than print a number we have not confirmed. What we can say is that a phone on the USB-C port is the priority case this 20w fast charger is built around, and it does that properly.
The charger carries the Regulatory Compliance Mark — the tick in the triangle.
That is the mark Australian law requires on mains equipment, and it covers three things together: electrical safety to the AS/NZS standards, electromagnetic compatibility, and a registered Australian supplier standing behind the declaration. Plenty of cheap wall plugs sold into Australia through marketplaces carry none of it. We hold the certificate and will send it if you ask.
Alongside it: overcurrent, overvoltage, short-circuit and over-temperature protection, and a flame-retardant polycarbonate shell.
The pins are moulded into the body — nothing to fold out, nothing to snap off, nothing to lose. A folding-pin charger is lighter in a bag and is also the one that arrives with a pin bent sideways. This 20w charger sits flush in the socket and stays there.
Two colours, black and white, so it either disappears against the wall or matches everything else on the powerboard.
Stocked in Melbourne, not drop-shipped, and RCM marked rather than hoping nobody checks. Order before 10am and your 20w gan charger ships the same day via Australia Post with tracking and insurance, backed by our 180-day warranty and a team who will point you at the bigger brick if twenty watts is not enough.
The cube Apple stopped including, with a second port. Order your 20w charger today.
Charges at full speed:
Will charge, more slowly than their own supply:
Not the right charger for a laptop. A MacBook Air, XPS 13 or Surface will draw from twenty watts but not fast enough to charge while you use it. The 65W and 100W bricks in the range are built for that, and we would rather point you at one than sell you this.
Two ports, one 20W budget. The total is shared, not doubled — a phone and earbuds together is the case this is designed around. The USB-C port is the one to put the phone on; USB-A runs Quick Charge 3.0 for older handsets and accessories.
Any USB-C cable works. At 20W there is nothing to match on rating — no e-marker needed, no 5A cable, no special lead. A standard USB-C to USB-C or USB-C to Lightning cable is all it takes.
RCM marked. Electrical safety to the AS/NZS standards, electromagnetic compatibility, and a registered Australian responsible supplier behind it — the mark Australian law requires on mains equipment. We hold the certificate and will send it on request.
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