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This tool for finding bad USB-C cables (hackaday.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EEVBlog also talked about this in a mailbag episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZQvSgdA2k&t=1839s

And they also have different cable versions available: https://caberqu.com/

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you trust the $4 tester from China to test the suspect cheap cables from China?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

50% failure rate of the cables and 50% failure of the tester means a problem will be found 100% of the time, but it dmwont tell you where. Or something.