I hooked up my Apple Watch to a Kill-A-Watt just to see what it pulls when it is charging. Drained my Apple Watch to 75% and tested the 1amp iPhone brick that comes with iPhones and then I tested an Anker 60w 6 port charger (2.4a per port).
I left the watch on the charger for one minute to let the values settle (keeping it under 80% because it reduces charging speed past 80-85%).
Apple 1amp white charger:
.03 amps / 2.1 watts / 3.6va
Anker 60w 2.4a charger:
.06 amps / 2.2 watts / 6.5va
Interestingly enough, picking up the watch and turning on the watch's screen resulted in both chargers reducing to .01 amps and .7 watts.
I repeated this test twice just to make sure I wasn't wrong on the numbers. The amps varied by .01 and the watts varied by .2 up and down.
Definitely charges faster than an Apple 1amp charger provides. My wife and I got a Nomad Pod for one of our Apple Watch cables (5v 1amp ouput). I noticed that plugging the other Apple Watch charging cable into my Anker charger or battery bricks, it would charge the watch noticeably faster.
Just an FYI to fellow Apple Watch users if you have other chargers laying around (iPad).
What amazes me the most --- the watch continues to charge at .02 amps for a LONG TIME after showing 100%. I'll time it sometime - but it is longer than going from 75%-100%.
I left the watch on the charger for one minute to let the values settle (keeping it under 80% because it reduces charging speed past 80-85%).
Apple 1amp white charger:
.03 amps / 2.1 watts / 3.6va
Anker 60w 2.4a charger:
.06 amps / 2.2 watts / 6.5va
Interestingly enough, picking up the watch and turning on the watch's screen resulted in both chargers reducing to .01 amps and .7 watts.
I repeated this test twice just to make sure I wasn't wrong on the numbers. The amps varied by .01 and the watts varied by .2 up and down.
Definitely charges faster than an Apple 1amp charger provides. My wife and I got a Nomad Pod for one of our Apple Watch cables (5v 1amp ouput). I noticed that plugging the other Apple Watch charging cable into my Anker charger or battery bricks, it would charge the watch noticeably faster.
Just an FYI to fellow Apple Watch users if you have other chargers laying around (iPad).
What amazes me the most --- the watch continues to charge at .02 amps for a LONG TIME after showing 100%. I'll time it sometime - but it is longer than going from 75%-100%.
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