Power and charging
Power is the line where a bad unit does real damage, so the intake criteria are the tightest we run. Protection circuitry and cable rating are verified rather than accepted on a datasheet.
Hardware · HW·03
Power and charging
GaN adapters, power banks, cables and desk hubs. The strictest intake criteria of any line.
GaN adapters, power banks, cables and desk hubs. This is the category where cutting corners shows up fastest, so it carries the strictest intake of any line: cells, protection circuitry and cable strain relief are checked on every batch rather than sampled.
- Entry
- HW·03
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- Line open
- In the line
- GaN adapters · Power banks · Cables and desk hubs
- Checked
- Every batch, not sampled
- Checked for
- Cells, protection circuitry, strain relief
How it is run
Power is the line where a bad unit does real damage, so the intake criteria are the tightest we run. Protection circuitry and cable rating are verified rather than accepted on a datasheet.
- Brief — Wattage, port mix and protection class are fixed before sourcing.
- Verification — Protection circuitry and cable rating are checked, not taken on trust.
- Quality control — Thermal behaviour is sampled under sustained load.
HW·03 · Power and charging
Drawing sheet · not to scale
Concept · runs with HOB AI
Charge shaped to the cell.
Every line is drawn around the same assistant. It is asked for out loud, it resolves what it can on the device in front of you, and it answers with the thing rather than a conversation about the thing.
HOB AI · on device
- Ask
- Ask what is charging
- Understand
- Cell state read on the adapter
- Act
- Current shaped to the battery, not the clock
- Ask — Ask what is charging and what it has left, without unplugging anything to find out.
- Understand — Cell state is read on the adapter rather than inferred from a clock.
- Act — Current is shaped to the battery, so the last stretch of a charge is not bought with cycles.
A concept drawing, not a shipping specification. The assistant is HOB AI and the device it was written for is HB·001.
Line manual
How HW·03 is specified, ordered and checked.
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HW·03
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Brief
Wattage, port mix and protection class are fixed before sourcing.
- Wattage
- Fixed before sourcing
- Port mix
- Fixed before sourcing
- Protection class
- Fixed before sourcing
Verification
Protection circuitry and cable rating are checked, not taken on trust.
- Protection circuitry
- Checked, not taken on trust
- Cable rating
- Checked, not taken on trust
- Cells
- Checked on every batch
- Strain relief
- Checked on every batch
Quality control
Thermal behaviour is sampled under sustained load.
- Thermal behaviour
- Sampled under sustained load
- Load
- Sustained, not burst
- Intake
- The strictest of any line
Line open
- Entry
- HW·03
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- Line open
- In the line
- GaN adapters · Power banks · Cables and desk hubs
- Checked
- Every batch, not sampled
Everything above describes how the line is run. It does not describe a product you can hold.
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