15W Fast Charging with 3rd Party Adapters Tested

Hi everyone,  

And a week  or so ago I did  on apple’s new  magsafe  wireless charger and what charger to use to get  the best charging speeds out of it and basically  determined using a meter what kind of power we  would get through this charger depending on the  actual adapter that we used and what I found was  the 20 watt apple adapter seemed to charge at 15  watts consistently so what I want to do is see  if there are any third-party charging adapters  that will actually work I tested quite a few and  could not get any to go up to the 15 watt power  such as this anchor power port atom pd1 this  would not charge at 15 watts so I wanted to  see if there were any of them out there now with  help from my friend Steve Moser and then finally a  document that apple published it gave us what spec  we actually should use in order to get that charge.

So there’s a couple chargers out there that  met that spec and I wanted to try them out  so the first one is an Anker charger this  is an Anker charger that’s a 20 watt charger  and then I also have an anchor charger this is  a newer one a lot of people ask me to try out  the power port 3 nano and so apple has clarified a  spec that you need in order to get these to work  you need a 9 volt 2.22 amp or 9 volt 2.56 amp and  higher charger and generally 20 watts or higher so  if you have that spec these should work so let’s  go ahead and try out the anchor one now before I  do that there’s a couple things you need for the  phone to actually hit those 15 watt charge speeds  the first thing is it needs to be fairly cool.

It  can’t be too hot and also it needs to be a lower  battery charge so meaning about 50 battery I found  it would still fast charge up to 80 depending on  ambient temperature but mostly between or under  50 percent you’ll usually get the faster speeds  so this phone is cool to the touch lets  go ahead and plug in and see what we get  so I’ve got a usbc adapter here well plug this  one in then well plug into this meter that will  tell us what our power delivery is and then well  plug into the bottom with the magsafe adapter  and let’s put this on the phone so  well put it on the back of the phone  now its charging you can see in the upper right  here its charging and now its delivering power  this meter tells us what the power delivery is  nine volts its ramping up the amperage it’s also  bringing up the mill watt hours and the wattage  in the bottom right so it takes a moment to hit.

  

That 15 let’s give it a minute and see what  it does so hopefully it speeds up here and  gets up to that 15 watt charging using that  spec with this new anchor power port adapter  now sometimes when the phone is in use also if  you turn the screen off it seems to help its  still cool to the touch and maybe the battery has  to warm up a little bit before you can get that  full power as well so you’ll see were at 12 watts  of power I was bouncing off of 14 watts you’ll see  it’s going up just a little bit were almost at  14 watts there we go and we should be able to get  that full 15 watt power delivery you can see its  doing it now 15 watts its even going a little bit  higher than that so we know that the new anchor  charger will work so it’s at 16 watts now  17. so it’s actually going up and so we know that  this new anchor power port 3 nano actually works.

 

Now let’s try out the other one that I have it  has a similar spec and this is an aki charger  this is the 20 watt power delivery wall charger  now I purchased both of these myself so I wanted  to see if they would work based off those specs  again lets plug it in it says welcome the phone  is charging now were at 31 let’s see if we can  ramp up to those speeds with this adapter as well  and the phone is still cool to the touch so we  should be able to get those speeds it’s not warm  at all so let’s see what we get so were up to  nine watts already now after a couple of minutes  you’ll see were charging at 15 watts so were  bumping up to 16 watts now and that’s with the  au key charger so thanks to testing and apple we  now know that as long as you have a 9 volt 2.22  amp or 9 volt 2.56 amp or higher charger with  20 watts or higher you should have the ability  to fast charge now you won’t stay there the entire  time its limited if you have headphones connected.

It’ll be limited to 7.5 watts to comply with  regulatory standards if anything’s plugged  into the lightning port also the charge will be  slowed down if you get above 80 percent battery  and it will also slow itself down if it gets  too hot to help preserve battery life over time  now they also have said with the mini the  iPhone 12 mini you won’t get 15 watts so  you get a little bit slower than that now as far  as these particular adapters you should be able  to use any others that actually have that spec  but these particular adapters I purchased myself  this is not a sponsored video but anchor was nice  enough to give me some coupon codes so if you want to pick this one up and it should  work fine with magsafe it seems to work okay.

  

It will charge at the full 20 watts when you’re  using it without massage as well so it works fine  I can show you that quick since quite a few people  wanted to see what it was like as far as the speed  now when it’s not using massage they ramp up in  speed much faster when you’re charging iPhones  so let me take magsafe off well plug in here and  well use the meter flip this around to activate  the meter sometimes it does that there we go and  I’ll show you plugged in directly with lightning  it should zip right up to 20 watts pretty  quickly you’ll see were almost at 20 watts   0:05:37.280,1193:02:47.295 reason it not it should zip available up to it there we go so  were already about 20 watts of charging speed.

  

So you can use any of these chargers including  apples with the lightning adapter if you don’t  want to use magsafe you’ll get a little bit  faster speed without the wireless charger  so now were using apples 20 watt adapter and you  can see its already at 20 watts or so they all  work fine but if you want to pick up a smaller one  it is significantly smaller any of these and again  if you  want to try it out it works with usb a and usbc  and usb or micro usb so you can use any one of  those connectors if you want to try it out see  what kind of power you’re pushing through it so  hopefully that helped and let me know what charger  you’re using are you using massage are you using  a different wireless charger a different qi  wireless charger let me know in the comments below  if you’d like to get your hands on this.