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This tool for finding bad USB-C cables (hackaday.com)

submitted 10 months ago by quiescentcurrent@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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EEVBlog also talked about this in a mailbag episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZQvSgdA2k&t=1839s

And they also have different cable versions available: https://caberqu.com/

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[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Am I missing something here or is this roughly the same what you get for 4 bucks from China? I mean, 30 euros plus shipping is a lot for a cable tester imo

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you trust the $4 tester from China to test the suspect cheap cables from China?

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

50% failure rate of the cables and 50% failure of the tester means a problem will be found 100% of the time, but it dmwont tell you where. Or something.

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

This one seems to test much more lines than the cheap chinese ones.