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Originally Posted by DNSB
You might want to check this article for the basis of Jon's prejudice against USB-C: A Google engineer sacrificed his Chromebook Pixel to test USB-C cables. If you search on Benson Leung, pixel and USB-C, you will get quite a few hits. Benson ran into quite a few cables that had issues but the one that destroyed his Pixel and test equipment set a new standard for sloppy manufacturing and no testing.
Basically the SurjTech cable (USB-C to USB-A) was miswired with the V+ on the USB-C end tied to gnd on the USB_A end and gnd on the USB-C end tied to V+ on the USB-A end. There were several other stories around that time about other manufacturers and miswired USB-C cables and one about a cable where none of the pins were connected. Much like when USB 3 came out and there were cheap cables that claimed to be USB 3 but only implemented the 4 wires of the USB 1/2 connector.
Caveat emptor. |
The currently available Y cables/connectors will not work properly with 5v devices. So that's a current problem. The other problem is that we don't know which USB-C cables could be a risk or not. There a lot of unknown cable brands just on Amazon and picking a good one is an unknown. USB-C needs to be scrapped for a new regulated standard.