why hello this is Mike Mu here from Mike Mu Online, Mike Mu gadget review and
thank you for watching my youtube video this is about how to fast charge your
iPhone 10 or iPhone 8 right phone 8 plus anyone that supports the fast charging
that Apple has advertised as being able to be able to be charged in 50 to 50
percent battery life in roughly 30 minutes now what they advertise here is
actually best case scenario in a lab ideal conditions we're talking about
using their $25 USB C to lightning power cable along with a comparable
third-party USB C power adapter that supports something called USB - PD which
stands for power delivery there are many different options available I'm using
one of the most powerful ones that Apple has available actually the most powerful
one that Apple has available at this time
this is the one that comes with the MacBook Pro retina with the touch bar
that is that that is USB C powered and I got the separately since I don't have a
macbook I don't have one of the new MacBooks this will put up up to it's
rated at 87 watts and I wanted to see just if this is going to make a
difference in terms of how fast you can charge ideally you should just get the
29 watt USB type-c power adapter which is quite a bit cheaper and quite a lot
lighter I have the same one available because I use that on my regular MacBook
which is the MacBook 12 so I don't have to pay extra for that type of adapter
now you'll notice down at the bottom I actually have a USB C watt meter this is
by Satechi I backed this on Kickstarter so let you know roughly what we're
looking at here in terms of the voltage and amperage that's going in life and I
should I should also mention in this example obviously I have the screen
going on and I have basically all the services going on so it is it is taking
more power and so this would not be ideal lab
conditions obviously and I also actually was messing around with the screen
recording function so it was actually actively recording the screen as this
was being charged right now so so that does affect roughly how much you're
gonna get so you know idea lab conditions of course you're gonna have
the screen off you're gonna have an airplane mode you're gonna turn off all
the other stuff put it in low-power mode and start to charge and you know you'll
probably reach pretty darn close to 50% if not 50% within the half hour that
Apple advertises one thing I should mention down here at the bottom you'll
see that it is at a voltage of 8.9 or roughly 9 volts and the average is over
there on the right hand side at one point 2 all the way up to 2 and that
that is because this 87 watt adapter actually has actually has different
power delivery modes so if you look on the bottom of an 87 watt adapter you'll
see that it supports twenty point two volts at four point three amps this is
what you're going to be using when you're charging a MacBook retina 15 all
right and then it has a nine volt three amps which is basically what we're
getting the mode and the voltage that is is is charging right now and then it has
a 5.2 volt at two port four amps setting and that would probably be for charging
you know probably once it's it wants to start intrical down you'll see near the
end of the video what are there not changes the voltages just to see you
know what's what's more optimal for check for it to charge now if you're
using a 29 watt version that one actually supports output of 14.5 volts
at 2 amps or 5.2 volts at 2.4 amps and I I tried this test both with the 29 watt
1 and 87 watt one and the 2009 watt one would actually output at the roughly
fourteen point five volts at point some odd amps okay so so
it´ll the amount of voltage that actually comes out will vary depending
on what kind of PD system you have and when you're looking at these fast
charging adapters I'm gonna go ahead and say this if you have an iPhone 10 I'd
recommend getting I mean don't get a cheap non-brand would you want to get
something good you want to get some new legit one of the big-name brands out
there right and if you want to be really safe just stick with it with the Apple
ones I'm sure you're gonna pay the extra Apple tax but at least you know that
you're using a legit power adapter that isn't gonna cause damage to your iPhone
any more than you know what's been expected and tested because that's
that's exactly what Apple uses and it's actually all manufactured by Delta
electronics anyhow in China but you know do you really want to risk your iPhone
10 being an over thousand dollar iPhone on a cheap adapter that you might find
on eBay that that is lying about it's it's that's unless you're able to test
it like an engineer like that one Google engineer that was testing all the USBC
cables and chargers and letting you know that there are actually some being sold
on Amazon that are actually really dangerous for your phone so do yourself
a favor probably stick with the big-name brands you know like anchor and you know
Delta which manufactures all of the Apple Apple power adapters that we've
been using for years here's another thing you should note right now we're
roughly around we're getting close to around the 70 percent battery level you
will see that as we get closer and closer to full capacity it the the
amount of power being charged into it actually decreases so that is that that
is to help protect and prolong the battery life and protect the device so
that's why you'll see things where it says well you can get up to 50 percent
charge love on your iPhone in 30 minutes but if that's the case if you're going
insane rate shouldn't you believe a full-on iPhone
charger within one hour well no because that is designed mostly as a safety
feature and and and you know you you you definitely can't do that because you're
gonna get a lot of heat out of the Vice and we want to keep you know Apple
Samsung and all these major manufacturers are want to be very
careful about how they handle the batteries in here because they could be
quite dangerous as we've seen on news and explosions when batteries aren't
handled properly or designed properly or charged properly yeah so I can't stress
that enough so now we're getting around 80% this is where the slower the the
charging rate really slows down quite a bit from here on out so you can see
we're at I'd see one hour and 18 minutes into the charging and this is really
gonna slow down quite a bit so this last 20% is gonna take the last 4050 minutes
of charging at this rate if you want to find out roughly how many watts is going
in you just you just multiply the last the volts multiplied by the amps and
you'll know right away you know what what the live charge is going in there
and and that will you know that'll jump around a bit because you know that this
is it's a safety feature that communicates between both the phone and
the adapter through the charger I want to spend a couple minutes talking about
fast charging fast wireless charging sorry right now well actually just a
couple days ago the fastest you charge was at five watts which is basically
just the same exact speed as you would get just plugged in with the you know
the included charger on all iPhones which is the same old five watt charger
since since the beginning of iPhone since iPhone one alright so that's five
watts recently just I guess a couple days ago they had a firmware update so
11.2 which allows you to do fast wireless charging which now increases it
from five watts to seven-and-a-half watts of
maximum power coming out that that's a 50% increase now that might sound like a
lot but 50% realistically you're just going from five watt you're just adding
an extra two and a half watts potential when you're doing the the fast charging
which is basically from zero to fifty percent or 60 70 percent all right and
and what that really translates out to is that within one hour you get 7% more
battery charge that's it some percent more so if you're on the market for a qi
wireless charger you find one that you like and then you find out that you know
the fast charge version it's gonna cost you an extra twenty thirty dollars just
get the regular one that unless you really need that seven percent and if he
did really need that seven percent you should rather spend your money on one of
these USBC PD chargers either from Apple or anchors or one of the other net big
big-name brands that that makes USB PD PD adapter devices so yeah fast charging
isn't all that I've been using wireless charging for a really long time provided
by several other companies and a reason why they don't go above something to
have watts right now it's because they Apple has not figured out how to do it
safely and without generating that much heat that would then damage the battery
and the amount of battery life you'd get so I will say I've seen this first hand
using qi wireless chargers and external battery packs and charging sometimes the
heat gets up to the point where you know III feel a little bit uncomfortable
meaning that I I know that at this temperature with all the electronics all
inside and in the heat and using in a car and you know you know windshield
that is damaging battery and you're you're just gonna use a way more battery
than I mean your battery life is just not going to be as great as versus
someone who isn't using wireless charging so wireless charging should
really be used for convenience not really
you great for topping up it's good for maintaining the battery life if you have
it in various areas you know you can set it down if you're only going to be
putting down for a little bit it'll just at least maintain a charge it
could be one or two percent in the mean time between or just for convenience
sake and I find that that is really convenient or if you're doing overnight
charging that's fine because you're going to be charging you know pretty
slow and at the five watt mark you're really looking at three and a half hours
to charge which is the exact same thing as you can plug the in with a 5 watt
adapter so you're fine with that but if you're always on the go
and you you know you're going from meeting meeting the office to the car
etc having a USB PD Power Systems can help especially if you have the GPS
going on you have everything turn on your streaming Wi-Fi hotspot all that
stuff getting more power into your phone is going to make life better
particularly if you have a smaller phone and if you're a power user and I
identify myself as a power user because I I really put a lot into the phone this
iPhone 10 is not going to make it throughout the whole day for me not the
way I use it or just unfortunate so I'm gonna have look through external battery
packs or maybe wait until next year when they have the iPhone 10 plus or 10s plus
whatever they're gonna call it alright so total amount of time charge
was just over two hours two hours and six seven minutes using the 87 watt
adapter which comes out to be roughly the same as what everybody else seems to
get on the 29 watt USB type-c power adapter so you do get some benefits from
using the 87 watt but not enough to justify the price difference or the
weight savings because the 87 watt adapter actually charges a lot faster at
the very beginning than the 29 watt one but only for a short period of time yeah
I've noticed that so if you're constantly running on low eighty-seven
watt might make sense but I'd say just stick with the 29 watt 129 watt Apple
USB type-c power adapter alright I hope this video is useful to you and I'll
have links down below maybe in a video you can
scan a QR code about getting these these are just actual Apple USB type-c
power adapters that are designed for their own MacBooks for Apple's own map
books so that shouldn't be too hard fine alright thanks for watching please click
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catch you in the next video the results of my testing are as follows for the
iPhone 10 running iOS 11 point 1 point 2 which is the latest as of today November
19 2017 you will benefit from USB C PD power delivery fast charging that will
be fastest all the way up to about 73 percent once you hit the 73 percent mark
and iPad charger will do just as fast as a USB C fast charging solution all the
way up to 100% and then once you hit 76 percent your wireless fast charging
solution any of the $50 price point or Mophie Wireless Qi chargers will charge
just as fast as the USB CPD system and the iPad charger just as fast and then
finally for the last 6 percent of the iPhone 10 your regular iPhone charger
will be just as fast so you will not get any benefits from 94 200% you will do
just fine with the regular 5 watt chargers found in every single iPhone
since the beginning of I phones alright so what this tells you is pretty much
that if most of the time you're looking to charge and your phone is constantly
below 73% by all means the USBC PD charging system with the iPhone USB c2
lightning adapter is gonna give you the best performance
for the amount of time that you have plugged in but if you're between the 73
to 100% mark most of the time like you just don't use your phone as much or
you're always around that that period because you never drop below 73% you can
save yourself a lot of money and just use a 10 watt USB charger that is
typically found in every single iPad that has been released and you will do
just as fast and if you're stuck with wireless fast charging and you're
usually between the 76 to hundred percent mark on the iPhone 10 you will
be charging just as fast under optimal conditions and that means no case and
putting it right optimally right on the charging pad or you can wait until the
Apple iPhone the Apple I may Apple pad whatever charger they're gonna call it I
forget the name of it but when that comes out next year you're gonna do just
just as fast on that alright unless for some reason they raise it up to 15 watts
just as fast as the cheese wireless standard is capable of doing just like
Samsung did in which case then all the all of this changes and then finally if
you're always between the 94 to 100% mark and you're just getting a little
top up the regular iPhone charger is just as fast and you don't need to spend
any more money and you know you you just you just don't need to waste any money
and use BPD charging if you don't use your phone that much and you're
constantly right around the point where your phone's almost always topped up and
you don't need it critically to be with you on a go for several hours at a time