Price range: $12.99 through $17.99 Inc GST
A usb c charging cable is the one lead most people now need for everything, which is exactly why buying the wrong one is so easy. The two things that separate a good one from a cheap one are what it can carry and what it can charge, and most listings tell you neither properly.
The most common question about this kind of lead is whether a charging cable and a data cable are the same thing. They are not, and the difference is invisible from the outside.
A charge-only usb c charging cable has power conductors and nothing else. It will fill a phone perfectly well and then refuse to move a single file,. This usb c to usb c cable carries both: USB 3.1 Gen 2 data alongside Power Delivery, so it runs an external drive, a docked display feed or a phone backup, and charges while it does it.
If you only ever charge with it you have lost nothing, and if you plug a drive in once a year you will be glad it is the one in the drawer.
The headline figure on this usb c charging cable is 100W over USB Power Delivery — 20V at 5A. That runs most laptops at full speed rather than the trickle a phone charger gives them, and it is the reason to choose a usb c charging cable for laptop duty over a basic lead.
Three things have to line up before you see it. The charger has to deliver it. The laptop has to accept it. And the cable has to declare itself capable, which above 60W means carrying an electronic marker chip — without one, the standard requires the connection to fall back to 60W no matter what either end could do. A usb c charging cable for laptop use is the case where all three matter; for a phone or a tablet, any of it is plenty.
The 1m carries the full 10Gbps. Passive USB-C is specified to roughly a metre at that speed, and inside that distance the signal holds.
The 2m is the charging and general-use length. Power is untroubled by the extra metre — 100W travels comfortably further than data does — and everyday transfers, keyboards, audio and phone syncing all work normally. What a 2m passive lead cannot be relied on to do is sustain a full 10Gbps link, which is a limit of the physics rather than of this particular cable.
So: moving large files off a fast external drive, take the 1m. Buying a usb c charging cable for laptop power from across a desk, take the 2m and lose nothing you will notice.
The jacket is braided nylon over the conductors, the part that survives being wound around a laptop and thrown in a bag. The failure point on a cheap lead is almost never the middle — it is the few centimetres where the cable meets the plug, and this one uses reinforced connector housings to spread that bend instead of concentrating it.
Over-current, over-voltage and short-circuit protection are built in, which is what stops a fault at one end becoming a problem at the other.
A usb c to usb c cable fits by connector rather than by brand, so this suits anything with a USB-C port at both ends.
This usb c charging cable is stocked in Melbourne and ready to go — order before 10am and your usb c charging cable for laptop or phone ships the same day via Australia Post with insurance, backed by our 90-day warranty and a team who will tell you which length suits what you are actually doing before you spend the money.
One lead, charging and data both. Order your usb c charging cable today.
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On the 100W: the figure is the cable’s ceiling, not a promise about your device. What you actually get is the lowest of what the charger supplies, what the device accepts and what the cable declares.
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