I’ve been playing around with my home office setup. I have multiple laptops to manage (thanks work) and a handful of personal devices. I would love to stop playing the “does this charging brick put out enough juice for this device” game.
I have:
- 1x 100W Laptop
- 1x 60W Laptop
- 1x 30W Router
- 1x 30W Phone
- 2x raspberry pis
I’ve been looking at multi-device bricks like this UGREEN Nexode 300W but hoped someone might know of a similar product for less than $170.
Saving a list of products that are in the ballpark below, in case they help others. Unfortunately they just miss the mark for my use case.
- Shargeek S140: $80, >100W peak delivery for one device, but drops below that as soon as a second device is plugged in.
- 200W Omega: at $140 it’s a little steep. Plus it doesn’t have enough ports for me. For these reasons, I’m out.
- Anker Prime 200W: at $80 this seems like a winner, but
they don’t show what happens to the 100W outputs when you plug in a third (or sixth) device. Question pending with their support dept.it can’t hit 100W on any port with 6 devices plugged in. - Anker Prime 250W: thanks FutileRecipe for the recommendation! This hits all of the marks and comes in around $140 after a discount. Might be worth the coin.
If you’ve read this far, thanks for caring! You’re why this corner of the internet is so fun. I hope you have a wonderful day.
Keep in mind when powering both RaspberryPi from the same powerbrick: some chargers briefly turn the power off and restart the charging when connecting or disconnecting another device. Some do this only between the same type of ports but frequently restarting your RaspberryPi is probably not what you want.
Anker Prime Charger (250W, 6 Ports, GaNPrime): $169.99 but there’s a $30 code that shows up for me, which brings it to one penny below your $140 too steep threshold.
The link seems to immediately redirect me to https://ca.ugreen.com/ Maybe they configured their region settings in a weird way.
Would you have a screenshot of the product maybe? :)
I know some power bars have USB-C on them, would you need to charge all 6 devices at once or only one at a time?
Well that’s odd!
Here you go:
For anybody just casually interested but with lesser needs than OP, I bought a 65W supply to replace a phone charger I forgot at a hotel and I’ve been very happy with it. Don’t just buy a single port replacement if you fuck up at check out like I did lol. Here’s what I bought: https://a.co/d/2TKDE2G and it’s $40 right now.
It has 3 ports total, 2 USB C and 1 USB A. The only issue is that it doesn’t come with cables, so I also bought a 3 pack of 2m USB C to USB C cables. No complaints.
