UBS-C Non-Power Delivery

For a while now, we’ve been trying to both minimize and optimize our cable and power travel kit. Back in Jan-02025, we wrote Optimized Charging about our attempts to figure out what is the maximum power draw from various devices. Maybe those big power-bricks went over board for most devices. This time we’re back to the opposite direction. We’ve acquired several ‘fun’ bits of hardware that are certainly not premium Apple devices. As such, they are usually USB-C charging ports; thanks to the EU e-waste rules attempting to minimize cables and plugs, but these devices tend to ship with a USB-C to USB-A cable. That’s annoying because we’re doing our best to move to JUST USB-C to USB-C cables to minimize what we need to take with us. When we plug-in our USB-C candy bar burner phone to a 20W Apple USB-C PD plug, nothing happens. Sometimes the manufacture recommends to use the plug that came with their device. Which is exactly what we’re trying to avoid. After some digging we realized that…