EU Common Charger Directive.

[Ivo Stunga]

In case of a single or a few USB-C power supplies in household - it'd be reasonable to pay more for safer power delivery as I'm not even wanting my devices being this thin as they currently are, going against ergonomics, longevity, repairability and battery capacity in the name of design.

Knowing that IC's are cheap - what'd be the approximate price increase in theory?

 

[Ivo Stunga]

Just looked around my flat and am noticing that I do not have chargers plugged in constantly. Just a UPS and all of display/sound devices connected to it - often charging my phone via slow PC USB while USB tethering is active for internet access.

Li loves slower charging they say. They definitely love lower temperatures while doing so. Knowing this - should one avoid fast charging whenever possible to extend battery life?

 

[Chan Tran]

I can see the USB-PD to be useful as power supply for peripherals need more power than the standard USB-A port can supply. I have a number of drive enclosures that have to be powered by another power source as well as a USB audio interface that has to have its own power supply. I can see that now USB-C can carry video/audio it may as well supply power to monitor with built in speaker and thus only need 1 cable.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I have read articles that tell folks to unplug chargers when not in use, saving the electricity they consume. Upon reading your comment on same topic, I finally got off my a$$ to compute the cost...

• Assuming 10 idle chargers left idle for 14 hours each day, if they consume 0.002A (or 0.25W, a generous assumption if they are charging nothing) per hour, over the course of a month they collectively use a wasted 2.8 cents per month (assuming $0.30 per kiloWatt-hour).

Thank you for the back up information.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Phones and laptops tho?

I do not worry about phone and laptops since I use their own chargers, but bicycles scare and scooters scare me because anyone in my building could burn down my building.

 

[Sirius Glass]

To be fair, I can't see any reason why ebikes shouldn't take a note from this directive - same stuff, just a tad angrier and the same principles (of security and in principle) apply.
Li-packs certainly aren't fresh tech now.

Ebikes are the ones that cause the worst fires in my area.