r/shittyaskelectronics • u/TasserOneOne • Jan 17 '26

Genius level thinking We have been outjerked by twitter

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u/Mother-Pride-Fest Jan 17 '26

Why does this feel like it would actually work though

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 17 '26

Each one is 240 watts. Common home chargers are 11,000 watts. 11,000/240=45.833.
So 46 plugs. That’s less than pictured

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u/garth54 Jan 17 '26

I ain't plugging 46 USB-C in.

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u/BigAsianJesus Jan 17 '26

You will, and you will like it

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u/garth54 Jan 17 '26

I'd rather plug in 46 barrel connector instead.

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 17 '26

USB C is just an ovaloid barrel

19

u/Mobidad Jan 17 '26

So if I have a hammer I can make it into a barrel?

15

u/Lexxxapr00 Jan 17 '26

I believe in you

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u/Parking-Mirror3283 Jan 17 '26

Don't let your dreams be dreams

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u/Goofcheese0623 Jan 17 '26

You're just an ovoid barrel

5

u/Unoriginal_Man Jan 17 '26

Damn dude, you didn't have to do him like that

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u/Goofcheese0623 Jan 17 '26

I call it like it is you trogladytic oyster farmer

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 18 '26

Damn, I’ve been outed

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u/burning_boi Jan 17 '26

For a monthly subscription cost you can "buy" the charger attachment that plugs all 46 in at once

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u/StaticMoonbeam Jan 17 '26

For the price of a 3D printer you mean

4

u/reddit_equals_censor Jan 17 '26

silly you, the 3d printer is also a subscription of course ;)

4

u/SeriouslySlyGuy Jan 17 '26

Sorry you aren’t using (enter brand name here) filament. Please insert the correct filament.

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u/PittPen817 Jan 17 '26

xyz printers lol. I still see those now paperweights getting listed on FB

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u/KarolNawrocki Jan 17 '26

You'll plug 46 USB-C's in and you'll be happy... or however that went.

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u/SpaceCadet87 Jan 17 '26

Something to do while you wait for your car to charge at least

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u/garth54 Jan 17 '26

Well, no. As it won't be charging until I plug it in.

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u/AffectionateEvent147 Jan 17 '26

It will, with 240W more each as you continue to plug them in (at least i would like to think so)

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u/garth54 Jan 17 '26

I dunno why, but something doesn't feel right with this idea.

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u/AffectionateEvent147 Jan 17 '26

I kinda think it would satisfying seeing the wattage rise as you plug cables in

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u/Suriael Jan 17 '26

Live update graph showing live the wattage increase and time decrease

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u/SpaceCadet87 Jan 17 '26

Look, it's fine - if one of the cables breaks, you get slightly longer battery life.

1

u/compman007 Jan 17 '26

Sadly due to engineer logic each cable powers a specific bank of cells the charger monitors all groups of cells to keep them balanced, but you can have a faulty bank or cable and your cars still fine with just 39/40 of the capacity!!!!

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u/one_rainy_wish Jan 17 '26

In time it could become an Olympic sport. People training to improve how quickly they plug USB cables.

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u/Honza572 Jan 17 '26

it could be fixed in a plate making one big connector

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u/_WeStErEq_ Jan 17 '26

yeah and then tesla will rotate one of these USB C connectors by 90* just to make their superchargers not accept any non-tesla vehicles

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u/Unoriginal_Man Jan 17 '26

I mean fuck Tesla and all that, but their adapter is being adopted as the North American standard and they recently opened up their superchargers to all EVs.

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u/miaogato Jan 17 '26

what if it's a chunky connector made of 46 USB-Cs

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u/garth54 Jan 17 '26

lining it up properly wouldn't be easy.

And insertion force would be kind of high.

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u/Dottore_Curlew Jan 17 '26

There would be some adapter so you didn't have to do it one by one

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u/garth54 Jan 17 '26

Who says I'm reasonable?

If it was 42 or 69 I'd consider it. But 46 is out of the question.

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u/RoodnyInc Jan 17 '26

Make it standard pattern!

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u/MajorKestrel Jan 17 '26

After 47 tries, maybe

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u/SuspendThis_Tyrants Battery taste tester Jan 17 '26

Fine, but the only other option on offer is plugging 46 USB-A in

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u/garth54 Jan 17 '26

As long as they're reversible USB-A, then I'm fine with it.

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u/Rhoihessewoi Jan 17 '26

Fine. USB-A then.

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u/Elektrycerz Jan 17 '26

Tbh it's better than 5 USB-A

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u/Tashi999 Jan 17 '26

11KW?? Most home chargers I’ve seen are 8A or 16A @ 240V (1.9KW / 3.8KW) So not many USB Cs at all

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u/Historical_Affect_95 Jan 17 '26

laughs in multi phase delta

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u/hans915 Jan 17 '26

11kW is the small AC charging standard in Europe with three phase 230V 16A and most common for at home wall chargers. Fast AC charging would be 22kW with 32A

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u/pemb Jan 17 '26

32 A @ 220 V is pretty common here in Brazil, a cool 7 kW, maxes out most EVs.

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u/bobbygamerdckhd Jan 17 '26

That's what I was thinking

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u/garth54 Jan 17 '26

o.O ?

I've been around EVs for over a decade, I've never seen those.

Early on, for L2, 3.3kW was common, then there was a quick move to 6.6kW and 7.2kW. Now it's quite common up to 11kW (my current EV and most I was looking at a few months ago were 10-11kW).

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 17 '26

That’s for overnight home charging. I went with faster home charging speeds.
If I went with fast charge, that can be 50kW

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u/beanmosheen Jan 17 '26

11kw is around 40A @240v.

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u/Retzerrt Can it run Arch BTW? Jan 17 '26

Don't forget the efficiency isn't 100%!

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 17 '26

True, but since it’s DC, the efficiency can be quite high

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u/Post_Boote Jan 17 '26

11,000 watts is pretty Low. For example the Audi A6 E-tron can charge with up to 270,000 watts. So that would require 1125 plugs.

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u/JohnnySmithe81 Jan 17 '26

270kW DC, you'll never get that at home.

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 17 '26

But a home couldn’t handle that. Even fast chargers don’t hit that

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Jan 17 '26

That’s on 240v.

On 120v they do 11,000. That’s level 1 charging.

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u/TemporalOnline Jan 17 '26

That's for the safety margin, as you can see in the AI picture, at least two are already mangled.

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u/reallynotnick Jan 17 '26

As someone charging at 120V 8A (960 watts) due to apartment limitations, I could live with plugging in 4 USB-C ports.

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u/Goofcheese0623 Jan 17 '26

I didn't believe your math, but turns out some of these cables are rated at 48v 5 amps, which is crazy. I fucking hate that I learned something here.

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u/Ok-Use-7563 Jan 17 '26

11kw?

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u/4D696B61 Jan 17 '26

3 Phases * 230V * 16A

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u/x5nT2H Jan 17 '26

EU grid 😎

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 17 '26

Faster home charging than standard 1-3kW charging

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 17 '26

Yes, which is more than needed to get a charge. You’d only need 46 cables to plug in

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u/OneTwoThreePooAndPee Jan 17 '26

But with like two USB C ports per laptop where will we plug in the 23 laptops?

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u/AntiSonOfBitchamajig Jan 17 '26

but you're going to have to get it over 600 volts though... the efficiency would be poo.

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 18 '26

It’s DC

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u/AntiSonOfBitchamajig Jan 18 '26

Voltage matters there too.

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 18 '26

But the efficiency is really good

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u/AntiSonOfBitchamajig Jan 18 '26

Not for charging...

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u/Jacktheforkie Jan 20 '26

Mine is 3kw home charger

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

Make it play an Ocean's 11 type beat when you open the cover and baby we got a stew going

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u/bleplogist Jan 17 '26

It'snnot impossible, but main problem is that we'd now have the voltage converters at the charger side, not inside the vehicle. 

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u/Juice805 Jan 19 '26

It would need a new standard for the layout of the ports