Picked up a Treedix while they were on sale. Slowly going through my Big Box Of Cables™. Some of the high-spec cables I bought are duff.
Picked up a Treedix while they were on sale. Slowly going through my Big Box Of Cables™. Some of the high-spec cables I bought are duff.
I don’t know why they still aren’t printing this info onto the cable itself. When you pull something out of the box of very important cables, it’s a lottery what speed/power you get.
It’s good to have it printed on the cable.
But also in the OP:
They can print whatever they want on these cables. So it’s still a good idea to test them.
Because it ruins the beautiful cable design!
Honestly I’m half mocking it but I also think it’s true. I genuinely enjoy having a pretty cable, and having text printed on it like they do on CAT cables would make it uglier. It’s a legitimate reason.
I think marked USB cables should be available, and I’d like to have some marked and some not in my collection. It’s definitely not cool that basically none are marked today.
Edit: genuinely didn’t expect to be downvoted for this. Could anyone explain why the downvote? Do you just not think electronics should be pretty?
All the relevant info on this tester could probably pretty easily be printed onto the connector head. Then you can have your label and your pretty cable too.
Do you mean printed on the outside metal bit of the connector? I can think of a few issues with that, but you’re right, it might be an option.
If you mean and other part of the cable, then it’s still going to ruin the aesthetic.
The potential issues:
To illustrate, this is the one I use to charge my phone. Don’t mind the dog bite marks.
The plastic grip head bit there already tells me it’s rated for 60w (I assume that’s what 60W means on this?) , but that’s a quite large design for relatively little information. I think that could be easily pared down and given smaller text to fit much more in there. We can’t make it too small if we still want to engrave it like this but I think we can condense the important information so long as we’re careful about how we present it. Now using the OP’s tool as an example, I think that
would probably fit on the grip head on my cable in the same orientation as the 60w that is there now.
Laser etching the actual connector part is another idea that I didn’t even think about until you said something, I think that might also be neat but probably wouldn’t be as durable? But if you really need a cable to look a specific way when plugged in that’s an unobtrusive way to still label it.
We could also go the USB3.0 route and start coloring the connector heads based on properties. Different color stripes encircling the connector that mean different things would work so long as we don’t have to wrap too many of them in there. 2-3 colors max.
(Upvoted you for making good, smart conversation :))
That cable looks great, and the stylized 60W is really nice. It’s still a stylistic choice that affects the aesthetics of the cable, and wouldn’t fit every design.
I can’t imagine fitting all of that text and still looking attractive: