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Awesome work. Having just gone through this for my company, I'd recommend a few valuable bits of information:

- Thunderbolt 3 support filter

- Power delivery capability (usually 60W-100W if at all)

Both of those are valuable for mac shoppers.

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Not only for macs... I have 4 raspberry pi4 powered through an USB hub and spent quite a bit of time looking for one that had at least 4 ports and that every port could deliver a minimum of 5V-3A. The US amazon had a few, but trying to find them (or similar) in several european Amazons was quite difficult.

You have some model numbers handy? Which one are you currently using?

For amazon.com, there were a few from Anker (one was mentioned in another comment) that looked interesting... As I said, no luck finding them in europe.

I ended up going with this one: https://thepihut.com/products/anidees-6-port-smart-ic-usb-ch...

One of Anker's raisons d'être is high current USB ports, so I'd be shocked if they couldn't do 3A.

I did not realize they were not available in the EU though. It looks like they list on Amazon UK, not sure how helpful that is.

Any chance of a link? I'm looking good something to power a Pi4 cluster. Thanks

I ended up going with this one: https://thepihut.com/products/anidees-6-port-smart-ic-usb-ch...

Have had it for a couple of months now with no issues.

Thanks

AFAIK that 3A figure for the Pi includes power for the USB ports on the Pi. So if you don't load up the USB ports, you can get away with more like 1.5-2A, depending on what you do.

Thanks. I intend to use it as a cluster ski no need for USB peripherals, I'll keep that in mind!

FWIW my 4GB RPi 4 pulls about 1.2A peak when using the CPU full tilt. Haven't stressed the GPU yet so don't know about that. This without any USB except wireless Logitech keyboard/mouse receiver, and with Wifi enabled.

Useful information thanks. That's much lower than the recommended 3A.

> and that every port could deliver a minimum of 5V-3A.

For the pi, “at the same time” is what most hubs seem to miss - often they can supply 3A per port, but not ports * 3A overall. (60W on 6-10 ports is a typical config, so you can pull 12-15W per port, but not 6 * 12+ overall.

Good HDMI capable usb-c hubs below 20 USD? Hmm, I cannot find anything similar priced in NL. I would prefer to have one that can do 2x HDMI as not all workplaces I sit have usb-c capable monitors. When I was checking a while back it seems to have a weird pricing gap between ones that have 1 or 2 HDMI outputs. More than twice the price.

I was so pissed a year and a half ago when I realized that none of the hubs had a Thunderbolt pass-through. The new Anker 7 in 1 has a 'USB-C data' port. Given there's no claim or picture of video out, I'll bet that's all it does.

And the tail on these. It's almost always too short to make it useful to plug it into the back of a thunderbolt display.

I think the Thunderbolt 3 monitor I got recently is my last planned Thunderbolt 3 purchase. I'm not sure if I can hold out long enough for USB-4 to land, where hubs are expected to be hubs again. But barring lost or damaged equipment, I'm going to try.

CalDigit sells a thunderbolt hub that has thunderbolt pass-through, though not if you want to run dual 4K displays @ 60hz (the one thunderbolt port becomes the second DisplayPort).

I’ve got a carbon x (6th gen) and an iPhone X, I think what you want would work for me too. This is what I’m thinking of: https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Charging-PowerPort-Intelligent-...

If someone happens to have experience with this, share your thoughts please!

I have one of these, and it is a great piece of kit - but it is not a USB hub of any kind: it only provides power.

If you're only after a power adapter for your X1C6 + iPhoneX then this Anker device will certainly work. I would however wonder if you really need 100W power, 75W would seem sufficient.

Edit: if you plan to use a USB to lightning connector for your iPhone X then indeed the 100W is needed as apparently this device splits power evenly (50W+50W) between the two USB C. A comment however says it's not fast charging the iPhoneX when they are both used, so now I understand your dilemma.

I purchased a

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hyperjuice-world-s-first-...

Waiting for it to arrive.

That looks like a dream, but I'm wary of trusting a newcomer on delivering a dream.

Apple's entire game is making things small and making them work well. Why are Apple (who has unlimited funds to throw at this), Anker, and other established companies unable to make something like this, but this newcomer is?

Hyperjuice is not a newcomer. They’ve been building such products for a long time and almost all major launches i’ve seen have been through crowdfunding platforms. Product reviews are almost always mixed though.

Anker makes a 100W charger but its ginormous compared to this one. They probably might be building a smaller one. Apple won’t build this product ever because its a very niche product. Most people don’t need this kind of power/setup.

Power Delivery is already implemented, but you have to choose that the hub has to have at least one usb-c port. It it possible to have power delivery without having an usb-c(likw) port? Thunderbolt 3 support is on my todo list:)

What did you end up buying? Any regrets?

I got something from cable matters but think it is faulty and cuts out on PD at times. I am looking for a replacement.

I ended up buying a monitor with PD/TB3 rather than a hub as my setup was using a pretty janky old monitor.

The two "hubs" that supported all the stuff that I wanted were effectively docking stations:

- https://hengedocks.com/products/stone-pro

- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VL675DT

I also bought one of these (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hypershop/hyperjuice-wo...), but waiting on delivery. It's not a hub, however.

We have so many 2015/13inch henge docks I'm trying to get rid of.

I recently bought one for my ThinkPad.

I'd suggest to avoid anything DisplayLink at all costs, it's laggy on Windows and the Linux driver support is pretty bad (Ubuntu only, doesn't support the latest version, not open source).

I just use another USB-C to DisplayPort cable even though it should be unnecessary.

https://www.displaylink.com/

I've found CalDigit and Plugable to both be very good in general.

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