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.
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: