Micro Usb Cable Power Rating

3 7 out of 5 stars based on 3 reviews 3 ratings current price 8 29 8.

Micro usb cable power rating.

For high power superspeed devices the limit is six unit loads or 900 ma 4 5 w almost twice usb 2 0 s 500 ma. Usb provides power according to the generation of the hardware. The startech cable has a usb 2 0 interface with the capacity about 480 mbit s. Usb 1 0 and 2 0 provide 500mah of current.

This is especially useful for peripherals that draw higher power levels such as an external hard drive. Up to 100w of power can be delivered across a single usb c cable eliminating the need for a separate power brick. Okay now the numbers. A broad variety of usb hardware exists including several different connectors of which usb c is the most recent.

As with earlier versions of usb usb 3 0 provides power at 5 volts nominal. One of the ends of the cable is a micro usb male while the other one is a micro usb female. What is important to know is that some usb power sources aren t going to charge or power your device well. The available current for low power one unit load superspeed devices is 150 ma an increase from the 100 ma defined in usb 2 0.

Universal serial bus usb is an industry standard that establishes specifications for cables and connectors and protocols for connection communication and power supply interfacing between computers peripherals and other computers. Product title micro usb host otg cable female usb power black for. A regular usb 1 0 or 2 0 socket has four pins and a usb cable has four wires.