Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible

[centauratlas]

I just thought everything was upside down (thats how it looks on the globe). But backwards too? Wow.

I think its cause its in australia if the wall sockets anything to go by ... everythings backwards down there ... everything !!

 

[PracticalMac]

Looks Uber Cool, but its simple physics that powering those lights takes power.

Meaning longer to charge up what ever is hooked up.

 

[Frenchjay]

Looks Uber Cool, but its simple physics that powering those lights takes power.

Meaning longer to charge up what ever is hooked up.

EL Light technology uses very little power.

 

[musser]

Dexim Visible iPhone cable

This looks great. But, seemingly impossible to buy in the USA. I've tried.

 

[Legios]

This looks great. But, seemingly impossible to buy in the USA. I've tried.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchp...p=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960

Walked in, choose my color, paid, walked out. Couldnt have been easier in the USA.

 

[PracticalMac]

EL Light technology uses very little power.

But one thing I notice is NO info by the mfg on how much power it does use.

and this:

Rapid Charging
Saves time by providing a full charge quickly and efficiently.

Charge time is based on power available, not electronics and EL illumination cable.

 

[TWO2SEVEN]

I stopped by Best Buy and picked one of these up. My location (Plano, TX) had the black/purple and white/blue. I picked up the white and blue. The cable was $20.99 (kind of an odd price) while the Dynex (Best Buy generic) was $19.99.

The cable works just as described. The "current" flows from the power source toward the iDevice. I tried it with both my iPad and iPhone 4, both were at different levels of charge. The speed of the lights does change with charge level. The lower the battery level, the faster the chase. When plugging your device in or unplugging it, it will take the lights a few minutes to react.

In the picture the cable looked to be a round, clear casing with the lights in the middle. The cable is actually flat, similar to speaker wire. The surface of the cable is split into thirds. White (or black) on the sides with the lights in the middle. The plug ends match the wire color, white or black.

One thing to note, the cable is just slightly shorter than the Apple cable.

To sum it up, since its the same price as other third party cables, it seems to be a good buy. If you happen to like cool gadgets, and since you are here you probably do, it's worth picking up. It's always nice to have an extra cable around. I will most likely take this one to work so I can enjoy it all day haha.

 

[DESNOS]

If this was meant as a Rambo 3 reference, kudos to that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEz70ClCetM

It's probably a reference to the fact that it's blue, not green.

 

[jacob11]

Looking awesome. Cananyone inform me Where i can get that?

 

[Frenchjay]

Looking awesome. Cananyone inform me Where i can get that?

Where are you from? UK, US or elsewhere?

 

[Patchwork]

Well I have one but after less than a day it has stopped glowing. While I may have been just unlucky to get a faulty one, it does make me wonder what the quality is like, especially as the USB lead doesn't fit properly in the charger. Time for a refund and back to the standard Apple charger.

 

[eonaeon]

Has anyone else had issues with these stopped glowing?

A friend of mine picked me a couple from Best Buy in the US on his recent trip there (a week or so ago). The one he started using has stopped glowing already, and the first one I opened, stopped working about 10 mins after using it.

My phone was not fully charged (only at about 47%), and it still seemed to be charging, just no EL light.

Some things I did observe were: I was using the iPad Power Brick (10w) as the power source, and when it stopped working the USB connector on the Dexim cable was *very* hot. After plugging it back into a regular PC USB power socket, the EL light started working again.

I do notice that my iPhone 4 does get quite hot she charging from the iPad Power Brick, so this might be an extension of this, and the Dexim cable can't handle it.

Note: I am in Australia, so I wonder if the 240v power source rather than the 110v ones you guys have in the US would make a difference as well?

 

[JAT]

The wallwart should take care of the voltage, check the specs. But the iPad charger puts out 2.1 amps instead of the .5-1a that this cable is probably expecting. Could be related.

 

[eonaeon]

Yeah I wonder if it's an overheating thing actually - when the EL stops illuminating, the USB end is very hot... took about 17 mins this morning for it to stop flowing, and the iPad was only at about 70% charge. Plugged it back into the charger and it stopped again after a few mins. Plugged it into my PC, and it works fine again (though not charging much at all, as it doesn't have enough power )