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Small charger, big power. Let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm going to talk about power again. There's no avoiding it in our modern era
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All your devices need to be charged. They all need power and electricity. So we're all constantly
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trying to figure out where can we charge? What do we need to charge? It's kind of a huge hassle
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and it gets more complicated when you get to larger devices like my MacBook Pro because it
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needs a lot of wattage to be able to charge and that means a pretty big charger, at least from
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Apple. But do you need to carry all those chargers? No, actually you don't. That's what I'm looking at
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That's this. This is the Energy C6 Duo charger and as you can see it's pretty darn small and
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fold up prongs. Much more importantly it has two USB-C plugs on the side and that lets you charge
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really almost any combination of devices up to and including my MacBook Pro. So really nice
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It supports Power Delivery 3.0, Quick Charge 4.0, PPS Fast Charge. These are all protocols that let
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the charger negotiate with the device to give you the fastest and most efficient possible charge
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Now what's nice is that they're also equally important ports. So if you want to charge a large
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device like a MacBook Pro or other laptop or tablet or something, then you can plug into either one
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And when it's a single item plugged in, this can deliver up to 60 watts. In fact here you can see
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I used this very small USB-C to USB-C charging cable, plugged it into my MacBook Pro and you can
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see from the hardware configuration that it is indeed charging at 60 watts from this tiny charger
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So fantastic. And you're wondering, well how fast did it charge? Hang on, we're gonna get there
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So now let me tell you that the two ports, if you use both of them, can deliver 45 watts and 18 watts
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or dual 30 watt charges. So I also use USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to Lightning. And these are
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bring your own cables as with most modern chargers like this. I use both of those simultaneously
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to charge my Google Pixel 5 and my Apple iPhone 12. So how fast did it work? Really glad you asked that
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So my iPhone dual charging, right? My iPhone charged 64 percent in an hour. That's pretty
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impressive. The Pixel did even better. It took a 76 percent charge in a single hour. Now I unplugged
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both of those. I plugged in just USB-C, plugged it into my MacBook Pro. As you saw it was 60 watts
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and charging and it got a 57 percent charge in an hour. Again, that's very impressive, particularly
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for something that's this small and so easily can fit in your pocket. Now this isn't just plastic
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and power though, because there's a ton of protection built into this too. This has what
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they call the inner shield protection system, which gives you over current, over voltage, over
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temperature, over power protection, and short circuit protection. So this thing is going to make
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sure your devices charge optimally without ever getting into any dangerous situations. That's a
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huge win. Also comes with a three-year warranty, so if anything happens even two years and 11 months
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later, then they've got your back. Now size-wise, it's 2.2 inches by 1.8 inch by 1.2 inches and it's
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4.9 ounces. I can tell you this is a fraction of the size of the Apple charger and the fact that
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I can charge multiple devices simultaneously is fantastic. So I can be charging my phone and
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someone comes up and says, dude I need to charge my phone too. All I have to do is say, great where's
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your cable? And as long as they have a cable, we are good to go with two simultaneous charges. That's
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really nice. There's really no downside to this. It's a little spendy for a charger compared to just
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a little tiny 20 watt charger for your phone or something, but if you've priced out getting a
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charger for your computer, laptop, or notebook, then you know those tend to be a little more
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expensive when they push out that much more wattage. So how much does this cost? Well, before we get
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there, give me some feedback. Give me a thumbs up if you like this video. Go ahead and leave a comment
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telling me what you wish I would have tested out and tried for charging. And by the way, this will
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work with things like the Switch, the PS5, a GoPro. There's a lot of different devices you can charge
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with this because it's just power, right? That's the idea of things like power delivery or PD3 and QC4
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and all that, is it just works with a wide variety of devices. Really nice. All right, now also
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click on or tap on that subscribe button and subscribe to my channel. Really appreciate when
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you do that. And I really actually like getting lots of subscribers. It gives me more leverage
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to get more gear so I can give you more of the straight scoop. I do not actually doctor, edit
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modify. I tell you the straight scoop. And if they have bad things, if there's problems with devices
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I'll tell you that too. There are no problems with this because it's a charger and it's small
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and it works. So that's awesome. Now, how much does it cost? All right, this Energy C6 Duo charger
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is $64.99 at Amazon.com, which like I said, is a little spendy for a phone charger. But when you
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think about the fact that this is the one charger that will charge every device you own and that
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it's small enough to fit in your pocket, then it suddenly sounds like one heck of a bargain. So
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definitely one to check out. I'm going to go back and finish charging up my devices
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which means I'll hope to catch you in my next video
