Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and a week or so ago i did a video on apple's new magsafe
wireless charger and what charger to use to get the best charging speeds out of it and basically
determined using a meter what kind of power we would get through this charger depending on the
actual adapter that we used and what i found was the 20 watt apple adapter seemed to charge at 15
watts consistently so what i want to do is see if there are any third-party charging adapters
that will actually work i tested quite a few and could not get any to go up to the 15 watt power
such as this anchor power port atom pd1 this would not charge at 15 watts so i wanted to
see if there were any of them out there now with help from my friend Steve Moser and then finally a
document that apple published it gave us what spec we actually should use in order to get that charge
so there's a couple chargers out there that met that spec and i wanted to try them out
so the first one is an Anker charger this is an Anker charger that's a 20 watt charger
and then i also have an anchor charger this is a newer one a lot of people ask me to try out
the powerport 3 nano and so apple has clarified a spec that you need in order to get these to work
you need a 9 volt 2.22 amp or 9 volt 2.56 amp and higher charger and generally 20 watts or higher so
if you have that spec these should work so let's go ahead and try out the anchor one now before i
do that there's a couple things you need for the phone to actually hit those 15 watt charge speeds
the first thing is it needs to be fairly cool it can't be too hot and also it needs to be a lower
battery charge so meaning about 50 battery i found it would still fast charge up to 80 depending on
ambient temperature but mostly between or under 50 percent you'll usually get the faster speeds
so this phone is cool to the touch let's go ahead and plug in and see what we get
so i've got a usbc adapter here we'll plug this one in then we'll plug into this meter that will
tell us what our power delivery is and then we'll plug into the bottom with the magsafe adapter
and let's put this on the phone so we'll put it on the back of the phone
now it's charging you can see in the upper right here it's charging and now it's delivering power
this meter tells us what the power delivery is nine volts it's ramping up the amperage it's also
bringing up the milliwatt hours and the wattage in the bottom right so it takes a moment to hit
that 15 let's give it a minute and see what it does so hopefully it speeds up here and
gets up to that 15 watt charging using that spec with this new anchor power port adapter
now sometimes when the phone is in use also if you turn the screen off it seems to help it's
still cool to the touch and maybe the battery has to warm up a little bit before you can get that
full power as well so you'll see we're at 12 watts of power i was bouncing off of 14 watts you'll see
it's going up just a little bit we're almost at 14 watts there we go and we should be able to get
that full 15 watt power delivery you can see it's doing it now 15 watts it's even going a little bit
higher than that so we know that the new anchor charger will work so it's at 16 watts now now
17. so it's actually going up and so we know that this new anchor power port 3 nano actually works
now let's try out the other one that i have it has a similar spec and this is an aki charger
this is the 20 watt power delivery wall charger now i purchased both of these myself so i wanted
to see if they would work based off those specs again let's plug it in it says welcome the phone
is charging now we're at 31 let's see if we can ramp up to those speeds with this adapter as well
and the phone is still cool to the touch so we should be able to get those speeds it's not warm
at all so let's see what we get so we're up to nine watts already now after a couple of minutes
you'll see we're charging at 15 watts so we're bumping up to 16 watts now and that's with the
aukey charger so thanks to testing and apple we now know that as long as you have a 9 volt 2.22
amp or 9 volt 2.56 amp or higher charger with 20 watts or higher you should have the ability
to fast charge now you won't stay there the entire time it's limited if you have headphones connected
it'll be limited to 7.5 watts to comply with regulatory standards if anything's plugged
into the lightning port also the charge will be slowed down if you get above 80 percent battery
and it will also slow itself down if it gets too hot to help preserve battery life over time
now they also have said with the mini the iphone 12 mini you won't get 15 watts so
you get a little bit slower than that now as far as these particular adapters you should be able
to use any others that actually have that spec but these particular adapters i purchased myself
this is not a sponsored video but anchor was nice enough to give me some coupon codes so i'll link
those in the description below with some affiliate links so you can get a little bit of a discount
if you want to pick this one up and it should work fine with mag safe it seems to work okay
it will charge at the full 20 watts when you're using it without magsafe as well so it works fine
i can show you that quick since quite a few people wanted to see what it was like as far as the speed
now when it's not using magsafe they ramp up in speed much faster when you're charging iphones
so let me take magsafe off we'll plug in here and we'll use the meter flip this around to activate
the meter sometimes it does that there we go and i'll show you plugged in directly with lightning
it should zip right up to 20 watts pretty quickly you'll see we're almost at 20 watts 0:05:37.280,1193:02:47.295 reason it not
it should zip available up to it there we go so we're already about 20 watts of charging speed
so you can use any of these chargers including apples with the lightning adapter if you don't
want to use magsafe you'll get a little bit faster speed without the wireless charger
so now we're using apple's 20 watt adapter and you can see it's already at 20 watts or so so they all
work fine but if you want to pick up a smaller one it is significantly smaller any of these and again
i'll link them in the description below also i'll link this meter in the description below if you
want to try it out it works with usb a and usbc and usb or micro usb so you can use any one of
those connectors if you want to try it out see what kind of power you're pushing through it so
hopefully that helped and let me know what charger you're using are you using magsafe are you using
a different wireless charger a different qi wireless charger let me know in the comments below
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like
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