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| What is USB connector slightly larger than USB-C ? |
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| RJSV:
Yes thanks, I should do some proper reading, on Wikipedia, sounds like you are right.... Plus, some searching thru several boxes of parts, various wall warts. But surely that 'usual' is micro USB, such as used on my new Bluetooth headset. |
| Shonky:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on July 05, 2023, 01:58:47 am ---It just looks like you're confusing micro-USB and USB-C. --- End quote --- Yes this appears to be the issue --- Quote from: RJHayward on July 05, 2023, 02:03:39 am ---But surely that 'usual' is micro USB, such as used on my new Bluetooth headset. --- End quote --- There is no "usual". Micro USB is the older design. Preferable these days is USB-C as it's newer and better (faster speeds, reversible, doesn't have the little hooks that tend to wear out). Your "new" headset uses the somewhat outdated design it seems. |
| ve7xen:
--- Quote from: RJHayward on July 05, 2023, 01:24:30 am ---Thanks for response. I get better image, just by drawing the thing. That connector is not tapered. Used on my air mattress pump, brand is called 'SLumberjack'...a play on words, there. Possibly what happened is that mattress got sold with both wall wart DC power end and the pump end are that wide connector, (meaning 1 mm wider than the tapered micro-C). Going to look about the boxes to check if I have a wall wart DC supply for that special conn. (Unfortunately my 'workbench' is a very disorganized room boarder, plus a nice backyard work table. Lol) --- End quote --- The photograph is definitely a USB-C socket. What you have drawn look like micro-B (usual), USB-C (1mm wider, which is about right compared to micro-B) [and USB-A (DC source end), for posterity]. USB-C is the 'new usual', though micro-B was common for a long time before that, and mini-B going back still further. It's probably only in the past year or two that random gadgets have started using USB-C en masse. |
| SiliconWizard:
Note that for charging purposes, USB-C allows much higher currents than a micro-USB connector (and associated cables), so that's a benefit beyond looking cool and being orientation-agnostic. |
| RJSV:
The variety, or 'drug store' headphones have an extremely cheapo bit of paperwork, extremely tiny print, and plus has an 'accessory' charging cord included, with, as you say, older micro-B, but cord is only several inches long, so, yeah, believable that the headphones are cheapo import. |
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