Anker charger won’t maintain steady charge

[benhollberg]

I recently purchased the Anker 735 65W charger that was on sale. It has two USB C ports and one USB A port. I have only used it for two nights while traveling and have noticed that it will not provide a constant charge. Multiple times during the night I can hear the iPhone restart charging, it vibrates and makes the charging sound. I can also see that the Apple Watch has restarted charging at the same time. One morning I woke up and the phone was at 100% and still plugged in but the battery icon on the phone was as if it wasn’t plugged in. I have been using this with an iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

The sale alert thread on here had a few comments about needing to plug the Apple Watch in last and I have been doing that. I searched these forums specfically about the charger restarting but couldn’t find anything. I am hoping I just have a defective charger. Has anyone else had an issue like this with a recent shipment or know anything else about this?

 

[bruinsrme]

I have one of the generic block chargers and it seems the charger doesn’t keep a constant supply to the ports. Maybe it’s the sensing circuit. But I am sending it back

 

[benhollberg]

I have played around with it a little more and done some more research. It seems that the charger doesn't work well with an Apple Watch. I have figured out that if you have an Apple Watch plugged into the USB A port then it throws off the second USB C port. The first USB C port will continue to work fine. Apparently it is a known issue and Anker acknowledges it. They blame it on the Apple Watch.

For now I believe I will be with you and be returning this. Can anyone else recommend a good compact multi port charger similar to this?

 

[Kottu]

I have experienced the same with same charger. It works without problem when I use only two C ports for my MBP and iPhone. When I connect a USB-A charger, the middle port (C) cuts off. I removed the cable from the port and inserted again to make all three ports to charge simultaneously.

 

[Htsi]

One way to avoid this problem is to buy chargers from :
Belkin / Apple / Samsung

 

[bruinsrme]

Interesting. Looking at the Belkin 4 port wall charger it has a port charging chart. The USB A shares 12w.
I wonder if other chargers have shared ports and when devices are plugged into thise share ports the draw too much current and the part disconnects the device, stops chargibg the after a few seconds restarts.

 

[Htsi]

Interesting. Looking at the Belkin 4 port wall charger it has a port charging chart. The USB A shares 12w.
I wonder if other chargers have shared ports and when devices are plugged into thise share ports the draw too much current and the part disconnects the device, stops chargibg the after a few seconds restarts.

Found that to be the case with a cheap charger I found at home. I’ve sworn of them, removing all remaining units at home

 

[bruinsrme]

Found that to be the case with a cheap charger I found at home. I’ve sworn of them, removing all remaining units at home

The Bellingham charger isn’t cheap.
I think these sellers/companies are leaving out the functionality part and we are left sitting here wondering what the heck going on.

I want a charger to charge 2 iPad pros and 3 watches.

 

[Motionblurrr]

Found that to be the case with a cheap charger I found at home. I’ve sworn of them, removing all remaining units at home

Lol same.

So much so, I removed my parent's crappy chargers off of their walls too and bought them Apple and Belkin branded ones.