PinePower - 120W Desktop Power Supply Review
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- The PinePower desktop power supply could be the perfect charger for your desk. It features a 65W USB-C PD port, an 18W QC3.0 port, three 15W USB-A ports, and 10W wireless charging. And let's not forget the nifty display!
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they updated PinePower now, it has 3-prong socket and 3-prong grounded plug. this is great improvement since many of usb-c chargers are only 2-prong with no grounding and have issues sometimes with current leakage.
Thank you for the review. Had u stumbled upon this item without seeing this review i wouldnt have given it any consideration. Had mine for about a week now and love it. Amazing quality for the price.
I have one and had it for a while, and love it. Works well and quality is good.
still going strong?
@@Rduino yes, still works and is used a lot.
Fast charging is OK if you have a replaceable battery, but otherwise a slow charger is much more interesting. Combining them is a very nice idea.
Way to many USB-A ports. Right now its on sale but I'm suspecting them to replace it with a GaN charger. Pine64 already replaced the 65Watt charger.
Contrary to the pinecil, there is no open source hardware for it, though, is there?
Thank you Gary, as many of your videos: great information!
Only Euro 40,85 home delivery in the Netherlands without additional taxes!
As you stated: value for money.
All that remains is waiting till the end of March for the expected delivery.
PS would have loved a look at the backside whether it has an On/Off switch...
Keep up the good work!
Yes, there is a physical on/off switch on the back.
Hi Gary. Thanks for that review.
How is the mains power input configured ?
My pinecil and pinepower finally arrive this week, I'm really looking forward to it. I've seen plenty about the pinecil but not the pinepower, so thanks very much for the overview. One question I have that you might know about is - the QC port is listed as supplying QC3.0 4.5V5A, 5V4.5A, 9V3A, 12V3A, 20V3A, but can you select specific voltages? If I could also power a pedal or two at strictly 9v or even a small desktop pedalboard supply at 18v that would make this even more useful than it already is, I'm just not clear on whether or how the pinepower selects which of that voltage range to send to a given port.
Anyway, great overview, thanks.
The voltage and current levels are part of the negotiation between the device and the charger. It isn't something you can set manually.
@@GaryExplains ah that's good to know. Looks like it won't replace all my other chargers but hey, that's still great. Thanks for clearing that up.
I'm interested on getting a version without Qi wireless. Also how do you know if the wireless station is on our off
Hi Gary. I have a 4-node RPi cluster. I'm looking to power them all from a single supply. Can the ports on this supply deliver consistent power appropriate for 3x3B+ + 1x4B? In my experience, "chargers" often do not deliver power consistently.
I currently don't have any need for this, as none of my current Lenovo Thinkpads charge over USB C, and I have a mini dock for my Switch Lite that handles everything else(phone, earbuds, Switch Lite, etc..), just fine overnight with the OG Nintendo Switch PSU which is very overbuilt(never seems to even get warm with all the 3 USB A ports filled on the dock, and a Switch lite on charge), or I just plug into the Google smart clock by my bed, but this is very cool indeed, and I will for sure be keeping it in mind if I ever do have a need for it.
I wonder if it can deliver 4 amps on a single USB port? This is the recommendation for Jetson Nanos..
No, it can't.
I just recieved one of these directly from the Pine64 store and it's extremely dodgy. The power switch does not isolate the power at all. The USB-C port blips randomly every now and then- if you're powering an RPI4 or other CPU-based device from it, it gets rebooted. I'm not sure that I'd trust this thing drawing 120W out of sight, given that. I'll stick to my Anker and Apple USB-PD supplies for safety.
Wow, for $35, you get a lot. I presume it doesn't have PPS, the new optional standard required for 25W+ charging on the S20 / S21 / Note 10 / Note 20? I didn't see it listed, unfortunately. But for $35, it's hard to complain.
No unfortunately it doesn't have PPS, however, as you said, for $35 it's hard to complain.
As someone who's spent quite a bit of cash on these things here's a word of warning - the USB-C ports do NOT work if your electrical earth system is a ground spike. My original Pinepower/Pinecil worked flawlessly until I moved my workshop into a log cabin, suddenly the USB-C stopped working. I read some posts on the pinepower forums about grounding issues, and at that point Pine64 released the new Pinepower with a grounded cloverleaf 3-pin plug instead of the old 2 pin one. I thought that might do the trick but no. Still failed. I've since bought a new Pinecil (v2) and a new expensive USB-C cable. None of them work with the PinePower USB-C. If you're not in a building with utility-provided earthing then avoid these.
Nifty little device
placed order, will use to charge my pinebook
Interesting product
Great find
Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us👍😁
I received mine earlier this week. Maybe this device is good enough for charging devices, but to my opinion not good enough for powering one or more light servers. I had a LattePanda Alpha powered over the type-C port over night, and during the night it rebooted several times. The same happens to a Raspberry Pi4. What are your experiences?
Nice. Given the unforgivable, unholy mess that is USB power delivery 'standards' metering for the outputs is pretty much essential! Only quibble to that 'perfect' tag would be the 65W limit on the USB-C port. When you've got 120W input available why not go to the full 100W maximum of the specification? Also a display for the wireless output would also be useful.
A question: does it come with a wall wart? If so what is the voltage input to the main unit? If it is 12V so I can run it in the car, it is definitely a sale!
Update: Found it online. It is mains input with a figure-eight mains socket on the back. Pity, but the absence of a wall wart will be a plus for most people!
It could be perfect but mine failed after 2 months. Unfortunately outside their 30day warranty.
come to the Pinecil channel in Pine discord. maybe the community here could help you diagnose it?
Macbooks and other apple products are very sensitive to non-Apple chargers. The charging chip or some capacitor around it decides to go out if we connect a different charger to it. It happened to me twice and the repairs were very expensive.
I have used my MacBook with a non-Apple charger for years, no problems.
@@GaryExplains thanks for the reply Gary, huge fan of your content :)
I agree, many people use non apple chargers and they didnt face any issues. However, when I went to repair shops for my device they said that Apple products getting damaged from non apple chargers (even good quality ones like Anker/Aukey) is the most common problem just after water damage. BTW I always used Aukey charger with my iPhone whose charging IC was damaged.
I think the problem is more likely cheap and/or badly designed third party chargers, but they will break any device, not just Apple ones. However I am surprised that you had a problem with an Aukey. Personally you are the first person I have ever interacted with that had a problem with the charging damage. Maybe the electricity in your area is prone to irregular spikes. I have encountered that many times in places with an older electricity grid. With the modem Mac with USB-C charging then I don't think there should be much of an issue. As for the repair shop saying those things, then yes, of course they say that, they want you to buy Apple stuff. Also there are lots of videos about the whole "water damage" thing, it is basically nonsense. There are some moisture indicators inside the Mac that turn color when exposed to water. They seem very sensitive and it seems that on most Macs they have turned color to indicate moisture exposure, but the moisture didn't do any damage, but Apple uses it as the default excuse.
@@GaryExplains very well said sir. Yes, power spike can be an issue, however the power supply is very stable and none of my other devices were damaged. And the repair shops were not apple authorised centers, they were third party ones and they wont have any incentive to sell apple products.
And you are also correct regarding moisture activating those water damage indicators, as soon as Apple finds them red they just jump over the customer to blame them. When my devices were damaged, I saw a lot of videos on RUclips and many creators like Louis Rossmann, Hugh Jeffreys and other small repair channels have pointed that Texas Instruments charging ICs used in Apple products are very likely to get damaged by using non apple charger (no matter the quality) when the same IC works fine on other products, i know this is strange but I did a lot of research on this as Apple was charging me a lot for repair so I wanted to do it by myself.
Very interesting, I will keep an eye out for information about the TI chips in Apple products. Thanks for mentioning it, as I said, I have never heard of that particular problem. I hope it doesn't happen to you again. Thx.
Looks like a great device, but I don't see any safety ratings, like UL, etc. Regulatory & recycling ratings is all I see.
Where can you buy it FROM the UK? (Thanks Gary)
I don't know, I got mine from China.
@@GaryExplains would you mind telling me the company web site so I can see if I can get one? thanks Gary
@@tretty If you type PinePower into Google it is the first result, pine64.com
@@GaryExplains Thanks
This looks really nice! I'm using an Anker 4 port 100w charger for my desk. However, it was much more expensive, has no display, no wireless charging, and doesn't seem to support the super fast charging in the s21... $35 is a steal for this.
As an FYI, this doesn't support PPS for the super fast charging of the S21 either.
@@GaryExplains bummer, thanks for the info!
When Gary was saying that he wants to leave desk charger, I felt he was talking about me 😅😅
...what?
Wasn't clear, can this power a Raspberry Pi or Rock Pro?
You only mentioned it twice in a 5min video, so not too sure if it can do this. Figured you would have at least said it 3 times.
Ah, sarcasm.
I dont like that it's got this touch on/off button...
but if you can live with all that spaghetti somewhere on your desk, then i guess it's damn near perfect
It only turns off the display, not the charger.
nice more coverege of pine64 products
Build quality is shit on these desktop chargers. LED & USB 3 5V ports died after 3 months. Pine's customer support is awful, no response after 25 days, total waste of money and can not recomend.
Sorry to hear that. Mine is still working perfectly and I still use it regularly.
pine64.com (via WooCommerce) complains on my UK addess: Sorry, no shipping options available for the selected address :(
Yeah, I remember having a similar problem, but I can't remember what the solution was! I just kept fiddling until it all worked out!
@@GaryExplains instead of clicking directly on buy when I added to cart it let me order it with $12 for shipping - sorry to bloat your comment section with this but maybe others also fail the same way
rog phone 5 speed test g please
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If I bought a PinePower could I then say that my PP is a 120W power supply? 🤔
I don't understand the question. Sorry.
@@GaryExplains hahaha sure you don’t 😂
@@swaggitypigfig8413 eh?
only one usb pd port and it doesn't even support a full 100w
I ordered my PinePower 120W Desktop charger on 18/4/21, it was dispatched on 22/4/21 (a bit slow to post it) and arrived 3/5/21 to Melbourne Australia,
so 15 days from China. The price was, $34.99 USD+Shipping $11.99 USD=Total $46.98 USD or $63.37 Australian total.
I ordered it from pine64.com. I'm really happy with it and agree with "Gary Explains" review. If there's anything else you want to know about it, I'll reply to your questions.
I know this is like a 2 year old comment, but I've been looking into buying one of these recently and would love to know how it's held up for you after an extended use period.
Thanks very much in advance if you do happen to get back to this!