Saw this on RFD…thought I’ll share this here for those interested in a cheap[er than usual] 100W USB-PD charger:
Spigen makes some quality cases for phones and electronics. They are usually my go to if I have the option.
I haven’t seen or used their chargers though, so I’m not sure about the quality there. Really nice price though.
I’m not sure about spigen but I used a few ugreen ones before, they are generally not bad, should probably be careful with the wattage.
As I occasionally game, mainly do CAD on my ryzen fw13, even 100W adapters sometimes can’t handle it. Most adatpers on the market aren’t rated continueous wattage, they just end up throttling or just stop charging until it cools down. Then again, this is mostly in extreme cases, heavy workload+charging, and whether there are other devices being charged at the same time.
Right now, I am using a 200W ugreen adapter, its one of those big ones with 6 ports, it still gets warm but has never throttled. In the end, it depends on workload, but cheaping out on laptop chargers is probably not that great.
Framework Laptop 13’s default EC will only draw up to 90W from a 100W charger
Isn’t that non-compliance or false advertising?
Yea right, not that great of products, but there was this channel I watched that did tests on all these chargers, and yea it wasn’t just my charger. Most chargers on the market often only support their rated wattage for a short period. The channel I was talking about was @AllThingsOnePlace on yt. I really don’t know though, even 90W is too much for these chargers.
There are at least some that can do 100W continuously (I have a really cheap chinesium 100W one that spent at least 20h doing 100W continuously charging a giant power bank) and I suppose the advertising doesn’t do any claims about continuous power and usually does meet the rated power at least for some duration.