Trying to find USB-C car charger that is capable of Samsung fast charging. What wattage is needed?
SAMSUNG s20 - NOT CHARGING IN THE CAR OR WITH POWERBANK
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra - Reliable Wireless Car Charger
Whats a good car charger/cable to use with the S20 without damaging the battery.
Fast charging doesn't degrade your battery... that's a common misconception.
Cnet wrote an article about it a few weeks ago...
6 battery life truths about Galaxy S20, iPhone 11 and other top phones
More on reddit.comFast-charging won't damage your battery
A conventional charger has an output of 5 to 10 watts. A faster charger can improve that by up to eight times. For example, the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max come with an 18-watt fast charger, the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus have 25-watt chargers in their boxes. Samsung will sell you an extra-speedy 45-watt charger for $50.
Unless there's some technical flaw with your battery or charger electronics, however, using a fast charger won't do your phone's battery any long-term damage.
Here's why. Fast-charging batteries work in two phases. The first phase applies a blast of voltage to the empty or nearly empty battery. This gives you that blazing charge of from 50 to 70% in the first 10, 15 or 30 minutes. That's because during the first phase of charging, batteries can absorb a charge quickly without major negative effects on their long-term health.
For instance, Samsung promises its 45-watt charger can go from zero to a 70% charge in half an hour. Apple says the fast charger that comes with its iPhone 11 Pro can hit a 50% charge in 30 minutes.
You know how it seems to take as long to fill up that last 20 or 30% of the battery as it does to charge the first 70 or 80%? That last part is the second charging phase, where phone-makers have to slow down and carefully manage the charging speed or else the charge process actually could damage the battery.
Arthur Shi, a tear-down engineer at the DIY repair site iFixit, suggests to imagine a battery as a sponge. When you first pour water onto a dry sponge, it absorbs liquid quickly. For a battery, this is the fast-charging phase.
As you continue to pour water onto the increasingly wet sponge at the same rate, the liquid will bead up on the surface as it fights to soak into the saturated sponge. For a battery, this unabsorbed charge can result in shorts and other issues that could potentially damage the battery.
Damage is rare if everything's well-managed inside. A battery's management system closely monitors the two charge phases and drops the charging speed during the second phase to give the battery time to absorb the charge and avoid issues, which is why it can take 10 minutes to get those last few percentage points.
The case of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7's tragically exploding battery resulted from battery design flaws rather than from the phone software's battery management techniques.
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Hi there, I am looking for a USBC car charger that will support the charging of two devices. I have a Samsung Galaxy s23, and was wondering what wattage the car charger would need to be in order to support fast or super fast charging? I have seen ones that are 90 watt but I don't know if that would be enough. Specifically I am looking at the car charger with two USB-C ports, would I need higher wattage for the ability to fast charge two devices?