RandomEar
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Over the past years, I've seen countless USB A to C adapters and tested some of them. All of them are "dumb" to some degree: Either the USB C only works correctly in one orientation (AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!), or they're "High-Speed" (480 MBit/s) only or they don't fast charge or whatever. In my conlcusion, all of them suck and I've now thrown them in the bin, after I stumbled upon this one by CableCreation:
This is the only adapter I've seen until now, which is not just two connectors and a PCB (or two connectors and a bunch of loose wires). It's got the required resistors and a USB bridge chip of some sort in there, which correctly translate USB data and power between A and C. Supposedly, it can fast charge up to 3A and supports 5 GBit/s USB 3.0 "SuperSpeed". I can only say that it works correctly with all my devices and I haven't seen any indication that the specs are wrong - but I also didn't explicitly measure them, yet. The only oddity is, that my power bank recognizes the adapter as a device and does not shut down, while it is connected. Which makes sense, because it is a full-fledged USB device.
This is the only adapter I've seen until now, which is not just two connectors and a PCB (or two connectors and a bunch of loose wires). It's got the required resistors and a USB bridge chip of some sort in there, which correctly translate USB data and power between A and C. Supposedly, it can fast charge up to 3A and supports 5 GBit/s USB 3.0 "SuperSpeed". I can only say that it works correctly with all my devices and I haven't seen any indication that the specs are wrong - but I also didn't explicitly measure them, yet. The only oddity is, that my power bank recognizes the adapter as a device and does not shut down, while it is connected. Which makes sense, because it is a full-fledged USB device.
