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Wall chargers are a relatively uninspired category of consumer electronics, but Case-Mate will surprise you with its slick FUEL lineup of vivid translucent 30W chargers. They're tiny but they push out a lot of power thanks to GaN II technology: Even enough to charge a Windows laptop! Tech expert Dave Taylor puts the FUEL 30W Wall Charger through its paces - including the use of the Case-Mate 2m USB-C to Lightning cable too.
Check them out at Amazon:
single charger: https://amzn.to/3oIBN6j
4-pack combo: https://amzn.to/3Ve67lH
USB-C/Lightning cable: https://amzn.to/44cuRyJ
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This wall charger is super cool and super fast
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this
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Well, I suppose I should show you all of the different colors. So I'm actually checking out all of these
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They're all exactly the same unit, with the exception that they have different colors, which is really fun
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Now, this is the CaseMate Fuel 30-watt. wall charger and it has foldable prongs it has USBC on the end and it pushes out a very impressive
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30 watts that's a lot of power that's more power than phones and watches and everything can
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generally handle which means you're going to get the maximum possible power for the fastest possible
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charge now what fuels this as it were is gallium nitride this is a g-a-nitrii which makes it
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charge without any issues of overheating or anything. Now dimensions wise it's 1.2 by 1.2 by 1.6 inches of course
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with that folded and it's 1.8 ounces so I mean you can easily have this in your pocket your backpack
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your purse wherever you might need to have a charge this is the way to do it and the colors so let's go
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through that real quick so electric blue and vibrant orange and and vivid green and frosted white
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Now, one of the things I will mention that's slightly disappointing is when I got this and I first opened it and I saw that you can see all the circuit boards and stuff inside, I thought, sweet, this thing's going to light up when I use it
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But as I can demonstrate by actually charging my iPhone, there's no lights, there's no illumination, nothing visible
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visually exciting happens other than my phone says, ooh, that's a lot of power. Let's charge this baby up nice and quick. So there it is, charging away. And so the question then becomes, okay, so how fast does it charge? And these numbers are pretty impressive. So iPhone 14 Pro here, I went from 21% to 70% in 30 minutes, which means it's almost 100% in an hour. That's a fast charge. Now I have my pixel
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6 Pro, and this one went from 29% to 59% in 30 minutes, giving me a 60% an hour charge
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Interestingly, this actually reported the famous charging rapidly, and that's what you want to
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see, so the phone's taking the maximum possible charge. Now, the only caveat I will give is if you go from 0 to 50, it'll be a much faster charge
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than if you go from 50 to 100, because a lot of these modern devices slow down their charge
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when they're getting near the top, and that actually extends your battery life
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So, in both cases, really fast, excellent performance. And then I thought, hmm, all right
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Well, let's go for the gold, and I got this Acer Aspire Windows laptop
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and I plugged this thing in, and at that point, it was like, well, 30 watts is a lot less
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than it wants, but let's see what happens. And the answer is that it went from 38 to 53 in 30 minutes which means I was giving it about a 30 an hour charge way below spec wattage But this has enough power that it pushing out that it just works
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And that's pretty sweet because this makes this a really good emergency backup charger
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So if you have this in your purse or you have this in your computer bag or something and you've
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realized that you forgot your computer charger, this will work in a pinch
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I would highly recommend in that case that you actually leave the device off
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Don't use it at the same time or it'll probably just stay at that same level without gaining charge
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But turn it off, close it down, plug it in, use something like this and it actually charges
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Who would have thought, right? Great. Now, let's see. What else can I tell you about them
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So there's really not much else. There is a slight indent on both sides that gives you a nice feel for when you're putting it into your wall socket
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So so much nice engineering here. And of course, the transparency you can see in this close-up, it's really cool looking
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These are really cool-looking chargers. Now, one of the things that CaseMates done is they actually have a special price if you want to get all four of these
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So I'll get to that in just a second. But I want to also point out that they sent me this very nice charging cable
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This is what they call their USBC to Lightning cable for obvious reasons
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and it's 6.5 feet long braided cable, and it's 1499. So it's very inexpensive, and most importantly, it can handle this wattage
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Now, generally, all cables can handle 65 watts or less. It's when you get above that that you have to worry about the rating on your USBC cables
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But this lightning cable is a really solid option, and it just pairs really well because it's obviously from the same company
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so it's designed to work together. So let's put this here like that
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so it looks pretty so let talk about the price of these but before we get to the price i going to ask if you could subscribe to my channel please Click or a tap on that subscribe button and then go ahead and click on that notification bell icon and you connected
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Excellent. Now, this is the CaseMate Fuel 30-watt wall charger and their 2999 per unit at Amazon.com
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Or if you want to get their combo pack of all four, and I'll tell you, my kids are each jonesing for one of these
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So we already have this all figured out who gets what. It's handy to have extras. You can have one in your desk drawer just for those days when you realize, oh my gosh, I don't have any chargers
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What am I going to do? You got that one in your desk. So if you get all four of them, all four of these casemate fuel 30 watt wall chargers
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then the four of them are $799, which actually works out to $1999 per charger
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which is a pretty sweet deal again at Amazon.com. That's really everything
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They're pretty straightforward devices. The only thing I will warn you is they don't light up
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I kind of wish they did. They can just have a little tiny LED that would light up that when you're charging
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Wouldn't that be cool? But they don't. So other than that, good, fast, well-built chargers that are going to last you for many years
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and push out a lot of wattage. Very helpful. That's all I got
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Think I'm going to go back to charging my iPhone, so I'll catch you in my next video
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