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New RDIq fast charge adapters now available through New Yorker Electronics

25 March 2021

New Yorker Electronics has released five new RDIq USB fast charge power adapters from RDI. Available in the 30 W, 45 W, 65 W and 100 W fast charger, the RDIq chargers provide USB PD (power delivery) and Qualcomm QC 3.0 fast charging to a wide variety of common devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and portable medical devices.

The universal serial bus (USB) is evolving into a truly standard serial interface capable of both high-speed data transmission and impressive fast charging of most USB devices. Unfortunately, the need for legacy compatibility on most of the world’s computers and laptops combined with the requirement for faster and faster serial data transfer has created a very confusing specification for USB cable socket styles, data rates and charging speeds.

USB cables

To address that confusion, RDIq is a power-focused USB product portfolio, designed to make it simple to upgrade traditional USB chargers to the latest fast charge equivalents. Most customers just want a cable Source: New Yorker ElectronicsSource: New Yorker Electronicsthat will charge phones faster than they currently charge, so the manufacturer made it easy to select cables on the charger front.

USB GaN technology

RDIq fast chargers feature gallium nitride (GaN) transistors in the power train, boosting their efficiency ratings over conventional metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor chargers and enabling smaller sizes and lower case temperatures as a result. The devices are compliant with USB PD and Qualcomm’s QC systems and use adaptive charge techniques to reduce smartphone charge times by almost three times while keeping the battery in a safe charge zone. These USB-PD Fast Charge Power Adapters come in four power options. The 30 W, 45 W and 100 W adapters are equipped with a foldable plug while the 65 W adapter has a fixed plug.

USB fast charger

The RDIq USB fast charge gets phones working again in 45 seconds after the battery has run out. Most standard chargers take more than three minutes to restart a phone. RDIq chargers require the GaN technology to keep the device small. All devices comply with the USB PD specification.

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