I’ve been playing around with my home office setup. I have multiple laptops to manage (thanks work) and a handful of personal devices. I would love to stop playing the “does this charging brick put out enough juice for this device” game.
I have:
- 1x 100W Laptop
- 1x 60W Laptop
- 1x 30W Router
- 1x 30W Phone
- 2x raspberry pis
I’ve been looking at multi-device bricks like this UGREEN Nexode 300W but hoped someone might know of a similar product for less than $170.
Saving a list of products that are in the ballpark below, in case they help others. Unfortunately they just miss the mark for my use case.
- Shargeek S140: $80, >100W peak delivery for one device, but drops below that as soon as a second device is plugged in.
- 200W Omega: at $140 it’s a little steep. Plus it doesn’t have enough ports for me. For these reasons, I’m out.
- Anker Prime 200W: at $80 this seems like a winner, but
they don’t show what happens to the 100W outputs when you plug in a third (or sixth) device. Question pending with their support dept.it can’t hit 100W on any port with 6 devices plugged in. - Anker Prime 250W: thanks FutileRecipe for the recommendation! This hits all of the marks and comes in around $140 after a discount. Might be worth the coin.
If you’ve read this far, thanks for caring! You’re why this corner of the internet is so fun. I hope you have a wonderful day.
Keep in mind when powering both RaspberryPi from the same powerbrick: some chargers briefly turn the power off and restart the charging when connecting or disconnecting another device. Some do this only between the same type of ports but frequently restarting your RaspberryPi is probably not what you want.
