I didn’t want to open a dedicated thread for this, but I thought maybe some of the lurkers could use the tips on this thread. Help a lost man in his search for a gawd dang 5V USB charger with multiple ports (between 4 and 8, preferably 4-5) that can output 5V 3A on all the ports simultaneously. And it’d better be some clean power.
The PinePower and PinePower Desktop seem like very good candidates and I would have bought one or two to support Pine64, but they are out of stock everywhere, so nope. And I don’t want to preorder now, I need chargers pretty urgently.
The only charger I found that didn’t look sketchy AF, is the Anker Series 3 with 4 to 6 USB ports, but unfortunately these only spit out 2.4A. FFS Anker, don’t give me your low IQ auto-adjustable voltage crap (PowerIQ), I want something with 5v only, with high amperage. I need to power SBCs with it, and I don’t want to buy separate USB chargers that take up more than 1 socket on my power bars.
I found another charger that didn’t look sketchy, made by Kovol, but when you plug another device in the charger, the other devices get their power disconnected for 2 seconds. That is pure insanity! It may work for battery-powered devices, but when powering SBCs, that is completely unacceptable.
And hell no, I’m not buying Amazon Basics. Actually, if you can find me anything outside of Amazon, I’ll send you a virtual kiss. And no Chinese imports stuff, like AliExpress either, I can find plenty of stuff there, but I’d like to buy something that arrives in 2-3 days.
So, that’s the dilemma. There doesn’t seem to be any quality power supply that has strictly 5V 3A+ on all ports. Most of the chargers I could find had QuickCharge, PowerIQ, USB-C power delivery and other technologies that negotiate the voltage, from 5V up to 20V, but I could find nothing of quality available that can provide 3A on all the ports simultaneously.
At this point in time, I don’t have a lot of devices that require to be powered with something beefier, so I could try to buy multiple chargers that are long on one side, but take just 1 socket space each on my power bar. However, I would prefer the cleanness and ease of accessibility that a desktop bench power supply offers, like the PinePower Desktop. Besides, using multiple power supplies is inefficient, I’d prefer if I can have 2x 4 port 60W PSUs, rather than 8x 1 port 15W chargers.
Recommendations and links are appreciated.