This widget could not be displayed.
This widget could not be displayed.
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Charging older laptops with a USB-C powerbank

jr_edge
Star I

The future of charging mobile devices will be based on the USB-C power delivery protocol.

I was thinking of buying a USB-C powerpack which I could use to charge my (3+ years old) Asus Zenbook - and future devices.

This gives a problem in that my current Zenbook is charged via a 19Volts DC barrel jack size 4mm/1.3mm. Standard charger has 65 watt capacity.

There are devices available called trigger modules connected
**  input to the USB-C charger (or powerpack)
** output to a conventional DC power jack.
The trigger module handles the handshaking to the USB-C charger and can select any of 5, 9, 12 15 and 20 volts. Sometimes called ZY12PDN devices.

Does anyone have any experience of using such a module? Out of box it would be delivering 20 volts which is 1 volt more than specified input.  Is that (real world) going to matter?

Interested to hear of anyone's experience here. Thanks.

5 REPLIES 5

ZenBot
Community Manager
Community Manager
Thread automatically closed due to inactivity. If the reported issue has not been resolved or you require further assistance from one of our moderators, please create a new thread and we will be with you shortly.