I normally use the included charger but need a new charger for my phone as well and wanted one with double USB-A for charging various other things as well.
I found this Anker charger and I am wondering if I could use this for my FW12 as well. I don’t want a massive brick and this one is still nice and compact.
I understand that it might not charge the laptop when under full load, but it wouldn’t break anything, right?
This is 50W combines, if I reed the specs right it can only do up to 30W per port. This would still be fine for a fw12 or even 13 if you can live with it dipping into battery from time to time but for limited travel use this may be a reasonable tradeoff.
Oh, yes you are correct. Only 30W on the USB-C
Hm, I might regret that…
30W will still charge it decently fast or keep it from discharging a lot under light to medium load so trading off between a bit more battery wear and a slightly heavier charger can be worth it if you travel light and not that longterm.
On the other hand the small anker 65W is a bit more expensive and also around that size but you can also get 30W chargers that are a lot smaller than that one (like this for example).
30W should be fine but you will see the battery charge much slower then on a bigger charger (ive actually seen the FW12 draw around 80W before when charging the battery and doing intensive tasks when connected to a 100W brick)
The FW12 will recognize and run off of / charge from USB-C bricks that supply as little as 20W in my own testing (9v / 2.22A), as far as i am aware the only requirement is that the power brick supports USB-C PD Protocol.
Having said that, at 20W the device will basically use all the power its being given and may even start to slowly discharge the battery depending on what you are doing.
I might just go for this one instead and get a usb c to a adapter for my old cables. This is still a really small one.
Correct. As I type this I am running on the Performance profile on Fedora 44 on my i5 FW12 and running it off an 18W powerbank. It will dip into battery basically any time something spikes the CPU or GPU usage. But on idle, it is slowly charging at ~4W.