Review: Magnetic USB-C Connectors Are Not Compliant, Yet I'm Still Using Them!

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@mechguy83 9 ай бұрын

I had a S9+ that became damaged when I used these quick mag connectors but I was using them at work in the machine / maintenance shop (I am a heavy equipment mechanic), the magnetic connector I believe picked up metallic grinder dust on it and when I connected it to my phone it shorted out / killed my usb charging circuit. I believe the metallic dust shorted some pins, I ended up using wireless charging for over a year till the next phone up-grade, I still have these but use them on wireless charger stands & cheap toys for the kids that use USB charging & inexpensive amazon products. Never in the garage / work shop or any other environment when the magnetic can pick up any sort of conductive dust. Or any expensive, critical daily driven device or phone.

@ExplainingAndroid 9 ай бұрын

I appreciate the feedback about these things. having those pins so exposed can lead to some issues (sadly). I'm in the same boat as you. they still get used but just not on important devices

@helmutsilver5006 5 ай бұрын

No issues using these for years. I've had a couple of brands of cables in kit form with multiple tips for various connectors including Kuulaa and then latterly I've been using the USB-C magnetic adaptors so that I can still make the most of quality usb-c cables and power chargers with usb-c connectors. There are a few iterations of a connective interface and many of the various 'brands' on offer are essentially rebadges or white labels of broadly the most common two or three types. I steer clear of the ones using pins and instead stick to the one that uses the double sided connector board in the centre of the adapter interface which as far as I see it is only replicating the connectors in the core of the standard usb C connector anyway. I use the Kuulaa cables on pretty much all the LED video lights and wireless microphone packs I use in my video kit, as well as on a couple of rechargeable guitar wireless adapters, Bose earbuds, and iPad Pro... The newer style 40 Gbps/140w adapters get used on data cables for my laptop and the charger on my Pico 4 VR as well as my in-car AndroidAuto to an S23Ultra... Am now planning on sourcing some more of the adapters and a bunch of connectors from AliEx so I can enable a whole bunch of devices to be able to make use of a couple of permanent connections in each room of the house and in the car - as well as travel kit for holidays. Wife uses them too. Just give them a blow out every now and then... I can't find any increased hazard in using them that isn't equally present with every cable... And at least with the magnetic adapters I can use any cable I want.

@ExplainingAndroid 5 ай бұрын

interesting read here, thank you for sharing your thoughts. do you have examples of the ones that have a double sided connected board?

@prinsa1889 2 ай бұрын

I've lost two tablets that were working fine, but the usb ports went bad from all the plugging g and unplugging the usb for charging. I bought the magnetic connector, and my current tablet has already lasted longer than my two previous tablets combined and is still going strong.

@ExplainingAndroid 2 ай бұрын

that's awesome! which tablets were breaking at the USB port?

@prinsa1889 2 ай бұрын

@@ExplainingAndroid I'm not sure of the model numbers, but they were all Samsung Galaxy tabs.

@zuffin1864 Ай бұрын

@@prinsa1889 galaxy tabs became shovel ware real fast for a long time. IDK when they got better but i like my current one from last year

@migithot71 Ай бұрын

I’m planning on using them to prevent dust buildup in the USB port of my phone. I will use it to charge my devices only and use a 5w charger so that should limit the damage that can be caused to my iPhone.

@ExplainingAndroid Ай бұрын

Dust prevention is a great reason, along with less wear and tear to the port itself

@headerahelix 9 ай бұрын

Damn. I just bought a couple after seeing a bunch of people using them. I'm not risking my S23+. No clue what to use them for now.

@ExplainingAndroid 9 ай бұрын

I was let-down as well. but at least we learned about the dangers before they broke expensive hardware

@mattd1188 2 ай бұрын

Why would you use the magnetic cable over say, a wireless puck? Cable charging is probably faster but the puck charger is an absolute life upgrade.

@dsedswe 8 ай бұрын

had the same thoughts to be fair as the connection is just pins hitting a flat board with no separators between the pins they are safe in the fact once connected they will be fine when new, but the problems come over the continued use of the device. The pins in the head of the device are just bent pints like you would get on the graphics card slot except much smaller which leads to the pins becoming lose which then leads to issues like cross pins or even pins that break after really looking at these you can see the ones the mac uses for its magnetic device and that uses blocks to complete the connection with a good space between each connection to safeguard cross connections, in my opinion, these are not safe in any way and would only use them on cheap items where the risk is minimal

@acuteaura 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, don't. I had a 24 pin one blow up the USB controller in my Legion 7. Thankfully they did replace it under warranty even though it wasn't their fault at all. The disconnect is a lot more dangerous, since the connect requires a tiny bit of time for PD to negotiate up the wattage.