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tobsn
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Feb 19, 2020
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this means there are zero certificates to begin with but then also no testing or quality check done on the signal or volt/amp rating or whatever could be done. it’s just some kid and a soldering iron with $5 worth of aliexpress materials. now if someone burns down his house cause his kid plugs it into a quick charger, that’s covered for the price? $69 - you have to be kidding me. if that isn’t the worse cash grab i’ve seen in the last years. no wonder massdrops office is half empty. it’s getting desperate it seems.
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Feb 19, 2020
xiaoball
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Feb 19, 2020
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tobsnAre any of the cable makers around the world selling certified cables? Genuinely curious. There have been guys in their garage doing this for almost as long as Mechanical Keyboards has been a hobby in its currently known form, but I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone show safety certification marks.
Feb 19, 2020
tobsn
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Feb 19, 2020
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xiaoballnobody no, so far also nobody has tried to sell a $20-40 cable for $69. the only one I know who does tests on his cables is kris: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5aUme5nZqK/ all those cable makers are amateurs, more or less. cruz, spacecables, summitcables, juju and so forth. space is a network of amateurs who build them in their kitchen as a paid hobby and then they send them out all under the name of spacecables. summit is a manchild who pretends occasional he’s a female asian biologist and sold, like spacecables, fake LEMO connectors as real ones - both pretending they didn’t know. all of them show horrible soldering skills and lack any sort of formal education in that area. they all just tinker around, as he himself above explained, and then sell you whatever they without any knowledge of it, define as a functional cable. not sure if I would pay $69 for some kid “tinkering” around. mainly because this could become a fire hazard very quickly.
Feb 19, 2020
slgerb
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Feb 20, 2020
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tobsnJust curious, if all these vendors are pulling from a manufacturer with RoHS compliant (industry standard) 2.0 cables, what exactly is the threat of them starting a fire? This doesn't seem much different than low-charging cables on Amazon that also have RoHS certification.
Feb 20, 2020
EpictheHamster
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Jun 5, 2020
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tobsnWow somebody is salty
Jun 5, 2020
tobsn
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Jun 5, 2020
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EpictheHamsterIf you pay a premium, wouldnt you at least assume they properly test the product? I'm not salty, I just find it comical that there is no test protocol added or any sort of reference as to if this is a properly working cable.
Jun 5, 2020
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