{"id":5708,"date":"2013-04-26T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2013-04-23T21:39:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T11:39:27","slug":"bringing-usb-3-0-to-higher-power-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/bringing-usb-3-0-to-higher-power-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing USB 3.0 to Higher Power Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a heads up that if you have USB 3.0 as a prerequisite for new devices then you might want keep your eyes peeled for a new revision to the specification.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, USB 3.0 ports are limited to outputting 10 Watts (a combination of 5 Volts @ 2 Amps) but with the new revision (also confusingly called USB 3.0) this is cranked up to 100 Watts (20 Volts @ 5 Amps). There will be a number of power profiles available for various devices to utilise in addition to the legacy VA combo for smartphone and tablet charging.<\/p>\n<p>This opens up the possibility of charging many devices without dedicated power cables which could be useful if you have a laptop charging off mains power and you want to use a more substantial external hard drive and other devices.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing to note is that USB 3.0 SuperSpeed will also be ramped up to 10Gbps from 5Gbps &#8211; whilst not as fast as what Thunderbolt can pump through its bus USB might still have the edge given its widespread popularity to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a heads up that if you have USB 3.0 as a prerequisite for new devices then you might want keep your eyes peeled for a new revision to the specification. At the moment, USB 3.0 ports are limited to outputting 10 Watts (a combination of 5 Volts @ 2 Amps) but with the new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/bringing-usb-3-0-to-higher-power-levels\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,18,184],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","category-technology","category-usb-interfaces-technology","tag-usb","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}