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How to make the transition relatively painlessly:
- Buy a bunch of these, and tie one to the end of every USB C cable, now you only need USB C cables around.
- As you get more C-C cables, buy these for your existing USB A ports:
just be mindful of latency, so maybe you want to try a few
These are a passive component
You have to be mindful of the adapter standard to ensure you’re getting the data transfer speed you want, and from experience same standard usb adapters aren’t the same quality across makes
https://glidedigital.com/will-a-usb-c-to-usb-a-adapter-slow-down-my-data-transfer-speeds
I do not think this word means what you think it does.
I am using it how these guys are https://www.anker.com/blogs/hubs-and-docks/do-usb-hubs-add-latency
What’s a better word? Edit delay makes sense
In that sense, latency totally is the correct usage, but their use in your link isn't anything you'd be using a usb-c to micro-usb adapter for. Latency would only matter if you were trying to mirror image from one device to another. Latency wouldn't effect charge speed or data transfer rates, which is all you be using one of the adapters to do.
These are just glorified wires, there's no possibility of latency. There's a possibility of a loose connection, but not of latency.
Should the C to micro cables always work for charging?
Think I bought a bunk one… I never cheap out on cables anymore, of course the one time in YEARS that I do…
Usb C has a default of 5V, 2A. This matches/exceeds the micro USB standards. In order to get a higher voltage, it negotiates up. (Or it's supposed to! China can produce some NASTY exceptions!)
I'd recommend making sure whichever ones you buy explicitly say in the description that they support charging/data transfer (depending on what you want out of them) I usually end up using Amazon since it's just harder to find these at any in-person retail stores, or other online retailers, so check their product images for those claims as well.
Most of them are sold by dropshippers, that don't care much about the actual functionality of their tech, so when they explicitly put it in there, it's usually because the original manufacturer listed that feature too.
If any of them don't match the specs (don't charge/transfer data) or don't match the images (have a logo when it showed no logo), contact Amazon support and they'll usually give them to you for free. In my experience (having bought 7 completely different adapters from various sellers) they usually work as advertised in the description, although I tend not to trust anything claiming it meets fast-charging standards. That's usually bogus. (good thing to tell Amazon support to get them for free though 😉)
I coincidentally bought these ones recently. They didn't have a logo in the photo. They arrive, whaddaya know, they have a logo. Contacted support, they gave me a full refund.
Yeah, I think so...
I do have some micro usb devices that won't work with some newer Power Delivery Adapters, but it's the brick part, not the USB C cable since the same cable / adapter will work with a different brick.