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.
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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.