100w USB-C PD car charger, can it deliver?
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- For years I've wanted the ability to charge my laptop or even a fast tablet on the go in my car. Up till now most USB-C PD adapters I've tried could not deliver enough power to make it happen and I've had to use inverters and other solutions. But this charger promises 100w of USB-C PD output with 20v 5A out, even when using a 12v car system, well, let's test that!
0:00 - Video and Charger Details
1:05 - Testing with a Phone
2:22 - Adding USB-C power meter
3:07 - USB-C PD Laptop test
4:50 - Thermal shots of the charger
6:20 - 20v 4Amp load tester setup
8:25 - 20v 5Amp test
8:45 - Conclusion
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Thanks for testing all this stuff for us man. Great service and I'll always buy from your affiliate links whenever possible. Keep it up 👍
Great job on the video. I hope they are as good as they appear. I just ordered 2 of them.
Thanks for the in-depth review! My mind is clear now about what to choose!
Good Info!! Thanks you for your sharing!!
Thanks for the test! Very useful to see the "REAL" numbers!
Thank you a lot. It was helpful video and nice explanation.
Thanks for the awesome review
cool video, nice testing
good video, answered all my questions including how it will look in my car (we have similar car)
At last im looking for this device for ages. Im ditching my boost converters and PD modules.
Loved watching this video,
Lot's of Love and Blessings from India 🙏🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳
Thanks for the video, this is probably much more efficient than using an inverter, and cheaper and smaller as well.
Fantastic video. exactly was I was looking for. Thank you very much. I am in need of powering my microsoft surface pro while I use in the car and I think this car adapter will do the trick while my usb-c PD powerbank can do fast charging but not at the required 60 watts so it seems.
That's insane. I have the exact same one (even recommended it on the Discord), but I was pretty sure it couldn't boost the voltage because of the tiny size. Amazing it can do 20V 5A at that size!
İf it couldn't boost voltage, How can it charge with 20 volts?
New cars has 20 volts batteries?
@@tr9036 Some vehicles (mainly trucks) use a 24v system. No new cars use 20 volt batteries. 12 or 24 volt.
Lol boosters can be made small. Lol you have no idea. The issue with the small size is the heat generated and the ability to dissipate it. When the device is small and enclosed the heat is is much bigger factor
Ooo a veedub. Noice. 👌
That's a heck of a performance for a tiny cigar lighter power adapter.
If I recall, the HP EliteBooks come with a 65Watt PSU and they like to settle down at between 55 and 65Watt power draw.
Great video. I was worried about purchasing something that can power a Macbook from my car's power plug. Very interesting results.
How did you burn the seat of your car... well long story I was running 99 amps through a tester sitting on the seat and ... GREAT Video BTW very informative :)
99 Amos...? No amps is different the watts . Watrs is calculated by multiplying two numbers. Vots x amps. Amps is the unit of measure ment similar to inches but it measures the amount of current passing through a single point.
Very good test mate! Is it safe for a car lighter circuit in an old car? :) Cheers
I don't expect it to be gallium nitride, that helps mostly with high voltage transistors. They'd likely advertise if they were using GaN anyway. Regular mosfets work pretty well at
Good to know that it can provide two diffrent voltages at once .
Taxi for Qindor - car won't start battery is dead! - Great video - I've got one of the dc to ac converters and it feels so wrong!
I got this charger a few weeks ago (I think it's the same 100W Baesus). It's temperature stays very cool at 20V 3A (60W) output, I was impressed. Also, yes it does boost the voltage above the car outlet voltage if it needs to.
Other Power Delivery chargers do this also.
Yes since on the most cars lighter could deliver 12V x 20amps = 240w
@@glupilazni1399 I don't know what country you're from, but in the UK almost all 12v outlets are 12v 120w (10A) max.
@@glupilazni1399that's not how USB c pd works, it boosts the 12v to 20v at 5 amps, this 100w.
Amazing little device, I use one without the screen, but 2 USC-C and 1 USB A instead. Also from Baseus.
Nice. 👍
I've been looking for something like this but I would like quite a few more plugs. I've got a phone holder with a wireless charger built-in which needs a connection. A few separate cables for passengers. And it would be nice to charge the laptop as well.
It seems that they have 160W version as well with 2x USB-C and 1x USB-A, that would be a lot closer to my needs :)
Hi, with the TC 66C do you have to change the settings to get the readings from 12 V/24 V.? Also, I bought the TC 66 instead of the TC66c to save some money is this gonna make life more difficult?.. 😆
Great video. I'm a bit worried about the car circuit, it should be drawing about 10A through the cigarette lighter. Some older cars can be not designed for 10A continuous draw.
The cable won't allow 10A through it. The cables need to have an e-mark inside it in order to even utilize anything above 3.1A. (e-mark is just like a tiny microcontroller for interfacing with a programmable power supply) So this charger will never exceed 5A
Hi, the link to the car charger on the description seems broken already the amazon link did not open. could you share any porter direct alternate link? appreciate it.
Great video! Does anyone know of a 12V to 100W USB-C PD capable outlet that can be wired in directly to a 12V source? I'm looking for something like this for a camper. I figure the direct connection (as opposed to going through a cigarette lighter connection) and possibly larger size could eliminate some of the heat losses.
I may have missed it.... will this automatically turn off, if the source voltage of the battery drops below a certain point ?
If my car batter is 12v this will still provide 100W right?
Did you say it got as hot as 60c? That's 140f! That's very hot! You said you only tested 20v @5A for only 10 minutes, correct? Have you tried just leaving it connected to see how hot it gets, and if it shuts off to protect from overheating?
If you're charging a laptop from dead, it's going to take longer than 10 minutes to charge. Plus, I'm most likely going to leave it charging until I reach my destination, which can be over an hour sometimes. I'm worried about it melting plastic and trim, or burning something. I drive a similar year model VW so the interior is very similar to yours.
Bought one over a year ago and it's still ticking. I was impressed enough to buy a 2nd as a backup.
Is it still working?
@@Iinustechtips like a champ
@@The_Ballo nice. thinking of getting once aswell
hi so i just bought one and im wondering about the consumption ( battery life) when the car is off and nothing is plugged in
(also I think my car cuts all power to the ports when it's off I'm not sure 100% )
Poh no clue on that figure, maybe a watt? But my car also turns off all plugs when off so in that case it wouldn't matter.
Baseus is owned by Xiaomi the Apple of China so expect the same highest quality from the inside designs and all around top notch manufacturing at very low prices from their high premium cables to adapter and chargers! The same goes for Essager...
I guess it works if your pluging only one thing in
If car input volt is 12v to this little small gadget charger, how it is output up to 20V & 5A to make it ultimately 100w? How the volt has increased?
Using a boost converter that's certainly possible and as shown in the video, it does this just fine.
Does the newer Baseus 140w charger work on the same principle? Can it really supply 140w?
In theory? Read the specs carefully for gotchas! And well, I generally only recommend what I have tested personally so can't say if it'll work right or not. This one I still use almost daily in the car!
Is the car battery 12V or 24V type? it is impossible for the charger to do over 12V unless the car battery is 24V and having a 24V output cigarette socket, or there is a step-up transformer in the charger.
*** Hmm upon checking, their 160W charger has built-in step-up transformer to achieve 20V output, this is interesting. Many other chargers cannot do that, the rated power output can only be achieved on lorry or bigger truck with 24V socket.
I showed it in the video but my car is a regular 12v system and the plug can both buck and boost the voltage! So that 20v 5A out was with about 13.7v coming in I believe.
@@IntermitTech Dang, that's pretty cool! I saw another charger from Baseus (I think the 160W one with 2 USBC and 1 USBA) that said it could only give output 15V to 20V range if it was plugged to a 24V input. Glad I saw this video first before buying that one!
Yeah it seems to boost voltage just fine for me!
I believe that the power drop is bcuz the laptop processor is not requiring more power. very impressive charger tho.
what the voltage of your car battery? can it deliver 20V output with 12V battery?
car was 12v it boosts voltage to give 20v from 12v battery
would this charger be capable of delivering 33w @ 2 usbc to charge cell phones? That's what i'm looking to achieve.
@@ITLifeTips in this case, my phone is the Xiaomi X3 NFC and it supports QC3. I read QC3 does not support PD. I have also seen other RUclips videos charging the phone via a USB Type C cable from the PD port but they only get 18-27W even if it's a 65W+ charger. My vehicle also is only 12v battery system and my cigar lighter uses a 15amp fuse and my built in 115VAC inverter outlet that provides 150W uses a 15amp fuse. So I have 2 options to deliver power to any charger. The highest I've ever seen my vehicle output when on is about 13.96V at idle, not sure when driving. My stock Xiaomi charger lists 11v=3.0a MAX=33W. So in this case since the buck boost circuit only applies to C1 port that must mean that I can't get 33W at both C1 and C2 at the same time. I guess I'll have to find another charger that does. Thank you for the healthy response, I appreciate it. Good info.
Hi. The power outlet port in my Honda City reads max 120W / 12 V. Would this charger be able to ouput 100W and be able to charge a MacBook Pro?
Thank you.
100w might be a bit much since the socket is only rated for 120w but I'd just try, worst case, you blow a fuse.
@@IntermitTech Thank you for the prompt reply. Less than 100W is okay, my query is that if this charger is able to step up the 12V input to 20V - 5A output?
Ah, yes as shown in the video that it can do!
@@IntermitTech Great. Thank you so much. Bless you!
How is it possible to rise 12VDC to 20VDC? You cannot transform DC.
Huh? How so? You can just use a boost converter.
1 year later first time seeing August 27 2023
can this stress the car battery and shorten its life?
A shame the display is so dimm it works great though but the display is almost useless if you use it outside
Just got one of these chargers. On a sunny day you can't see the display unless you shield it with your hand.
Baseus seems to be a trustworthy brand.
Normally their stuff works great. However, out of 10 chargers, I had two broken ones. I had similar failure numbers with their cables. IMHO Baseus is good, but Anker is better, i.e. more reliable, but also more expensive.
I've also bought some of their stuff and so far I can't complain.
That's my experience as well. Bought always the little pricier from them and so far they all did a fantastic job. I think they're absolutely fairly priced. Not too cheap to lack function, safety or stability, but also not as expensive as some other brands. They also seem to catch up pretty quickly with new protocols.
Modified or Real sinewave ?
I'm confused, there is no AC involved here?
would it keep up with a steam deck?
Oh yes, should have no problem at all with that.
u mean this whole time u have ur car engine running?
No? The car has a normal 12v battery but since it's a hybrid it also has a bigger high voltage battery.
I call bs 100w before the sun blows up or it's 50w per plug
Well the proof is clearly in the video.....
Should have read the review by Bman357 - I tried another brand first (WOTOBEUS) at 100w continuous use and it only lasted 2 nights before it gave up the ghost. Both this charger and the other branded one seem to trip the heat sensor after a couple hours of 100w use. The advantage of this one, other than still working today, is that it cools down a lot faster than the other brand. I ended up buying two of them so I can swap them out and let one be cooling. I would like to see a 100w charger like this but with a fan. The vehicle I am using it in has a lot of space near the cigarette lighter outlet (12v outlet) and maybe a well placed fan in the item would make it last near indefinitely with 100w use. I am not sure why there is a bad review for this item but I am happy with the product so far.
123 f. Thats hot
Ah yes .. the dc to dc inverter. Inverters arbt dc to dc . Its dc to ac. Only dc to dc device is a converter.. not inverter
That will drain your cars battery. Get a power bank instead