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Tired of lugging around power chargers for all your devices and then realizing you can't plug them all in simultaneously anyway? Kovol has the solution with the Kovol Sprint 120W 4-Port Charger device. Tech expert Dave Taylor plugs in a variety of devices and computers to explain how it works and why it might just be "the one charger to rule them all".
Also demonstrated: Kovol Sprint 100W 6.6-foot USB-C charging cable.
Check it out on Amazon:
120W Charger: https://amzn.to/3mGe17b
100W Cable: https://amzn.to/3EHa1cY
Check out Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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Is this the one charger to rule them all? Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is really cool. This is the Koval Sprint
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120 watt four port charger. It has two USB-C and two USB-A and if you just use one of the ports
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it can deliver up to 120 watts of power. That's a lot. So when I used it with a 100 watt rated cable
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and I'll come back to the cable in a second, I was able to get 100 watts coming into my new
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MacBook Pro which means that it was charging super fast. Less than two hours from dead to 100%
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That's pretty nice. But where this really gets cool, let me just move these boxes out of the
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way a little bit, is if you have more devices like an iPhone 13 Pro or a Google Pixel 6 Pro
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right? So I can plug both these in. Both of them can be charging and my computer can be charging
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all off of one charging block. That's a big win. Now it doesn't have little prongs that fold out
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because it's a bit heavy for that. So instead it actually comes with a little wire and this wire
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see I haven't actually opened it yet because I like to keep my cables neat, but I'm thinking
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this is probably a six foot wire. Let's see. Yeah, it's about six feet. So plug it in. It's a two pronger
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Plug it into a handy power source or outlet and now the little green lights on the bottom turn on
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to show that it is hot and running. And at this point, actually I have a lot going on here. So you know
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what we're going to do? We are going to dump the boxes. We don't need the boxes, we need the devices
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So here we are with the 120 watt 4-port charger and I'm going to go ahead and plug in. So this
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is the Coval Sprint 100 watt cable. It's 6.6 feet and it is $12.99, super cheap, but it's super
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important. If you're going to use more than 65 watts of power out of this, you need a USB-C
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charging cable that's rated at the higher wattage. That's why I got this one and this lets me deliver
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a full 100 watts to my computer, which is the maximum that the MacBook Pro will take. So I plug
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that into one of the USB-C ports and then I'll just go ahead and I'll just swing it around here
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and I'll plug it into my, what is this, a 2021 MacBook Pro M1. So what's nice, like I said, is it
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can take 100 watts and you can open up your system report and you can see, as I have here, that it's
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getting 100 watts. It is charging, it's charging fast. So this is rocking right now. But of course
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I have these other devices and they need charging too. Now the upside is that this does support
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things like PD 3.0, which is power delivery and QC 3.0, which is quick charge and PPS, which is
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the programmable power supply, lots of different standards. But what they're all supposed to do
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is they're all supposed to deliver the maximum power that a device can handle so the device
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charges as quickly as possible. So my white cable is USB-A to USB-C and my blue cable is USB-A
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to lightning. So I'm going to plug both those into here and so you can see I have all three devices
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ready to roll and then I'm going to go ahead and plug in the Pixel and that's charging. You can't
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see very well, there's a tiny little battery icon that shows up and then I will plug in my iPhone
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and that one is usually a little bit more colorful. So let's see, there we go. So you can see there
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that that's also charging. So now I have all three devices charging simultaneously from a single
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wall plug using a single power adapter. That's really awesome. Now the downside is because I'm
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pulling all of this power, then this, the USB-C going to my MacBook Pro has dropped down from 100
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watts to 65 watts. You can see that in this power report. Now 65 watts is considerably lower but
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especially if you leave your computer off so there's nothing else going on, it'll charge pretty
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darn fast anyway. And what this means if you're doing the math is that you could plug in and
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charge two MacBook Pros or a Chromebook or a PC or any other devices that want a lot of power. You
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can plug two in and each of them will get 60 watts which is not the maximum possible power for most
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devices but it's plenty enough that it'll be a positive charging trend. So if I am at a office
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for example, I can have this plugged in and charging and I can be charging a MacBook Pro
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on a different kind or maybe a MacBook Air and I could also be charging my phone. All of those off
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of this one device. Super nice. Now it's using gallium nitride 2 technology. So gallium nitride
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is a way that these companies have figured out that they can get a lot more power out of a very
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small space. So this is it looks maybe a little chunky but if you think about how chunky multiple
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power adapters would be, suddenly doesn't seem so big. So it's 1.8 inches by 1.8 inches by 3.4
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inches long. Super easy to work with and it has a lot of different circuitry protection. So it has
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protection against surge, overcurrent, overvoltage, short circuit, high temperature and overcharging. All of those are built into the technology so it will just power down and stop delivering power
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if the device reports that it has any sort of issues. Super great. If you're not sure, they come
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with a 12-month register and it's actually a 24-month warranty for this device. That's pretty
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nice. So 24 months from now hopefully the world will look pretty different but whatever it looks
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like you are going to have something that's still covered and still delivering power to a lot of
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devices simultaneously. Super super cool. Now let's get back to the price but before we get to the
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price I'd like to go ahead and ask if you could subscribe to my channel. A click or a tap on that
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subscribe button and we're connected. And leave me a comment. Give me some feedback. What else would
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you like me to have shown or talked about? Okay this is the Coval Sprint 120 watt four-port
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charger and it is $119.99. Currently running a promo that drops it to $99.99 at amazon.com
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If you're fed up with having multiple power adapters this is a great solution. If you're
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equipping a like I don't know home office or a co-working space or you just want to have the
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maximum possible power flexibility in a conference room at work or something this or a couple of
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these is a no-brainer. And finally lest I forget I will also highlight that this you might as well
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just get one while you're at it. This is the Coval Sprint 6.6 foot 100 watt rated USB-C to USB-C
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cable. It is a thick braided cable. I love this sort of cable. They just feel like they're going
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to last a million years. Super easy to work with. These two together are a great solution for all
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your charging needs and a lot more. That's all I got. I need to get everything plugged back in
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to make sure I have everything charged as best I can. Let's get that one plugged in
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and there we go. All right that's it so I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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you
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