At the moment I have an Anker 5-port USB charger that sits in the corner near a little tray that lets everyone connect up their phones/ipads and charge easily. I have 3 lightning cables, one micro-usb for those annoying things that still require it, and one USB-C for my ipad pro. All the ports are standard USB-A 2.4A ports so not the fastest. With the iphone 12 coming with a USB-C to lightning cable in the box I figured maybe its time to update my ‘communal charging station’ with a bit more juice.
What do people recommend? It’ll be currently needing to charge
- bunch of random micro USB stuff that 2A is probably plenty for
- 2x original iphone SE so they’ll be limited in charge speed and maybe USB-A is enough, but they may be updated to iphone 12 minis over the next 12-24 months
- ipad pro 2018, 2x ipad air 2019, 1x ipad regular 2020. I think maybe these can all do fast charging?
- iphone 11 - replaced with 12 coming next week.
Bearing that in mind, should I get something with a bunch of higher powered ports, and will those work with my current USB-A to lightning cables or will I need new cables too?
edit: thinking about it - if most of these will realistically top out at 18W, is that a meaningful jump over the 12W I should be getting with the current 2.4A chargers?
What do people recommend? It’ll be currently needing to charge
- bunch of random micro USB stuff that 2A is probably plenty for
- 2x original iphone SE so they’ll be limited in charge speed and maybe USB-A is enough, but they may be updated to iphone 12 minis over the next 12-24 months
- ipad pro 2018, 2x ipad air 2019, 1x ipad regular 2020. I think maybe these can all do fast charging?
- iphone 11 - replaced with 12 coming next week.
Bearing that in mind, should I get something with a bunch of higher powered ports, and will those work with my current USB-A to lightning cables or will I need new cables too?
edit: thinking about it - if most of these will realistically top out at 18W, is that a meaningful jump over the 12W I should be getting with the current 2.4A chargers?
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