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Choosing the right USB type-c power cable for your Phone Mining Farm or Orange pi 5 SBC

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The power cables you choose does matter for cryptocurrency mining on cell phones or Orange pi SBC. Unfortunately, when it comes to USB-C, even cables that look identical can behave very differently. For instance if the cable is undersized or low quality it could have a high resistance and the device could take more power to run ultimately. In some examples in the video you'll see that we can save up to 80 watts and even more in some cases. __________________ Orange Pi 5 -- Comparison Series 1 of 3 https://youtu.be/F0EfW_y2xEE Orange Pi Zero 3 -- Comparison Series 2 of 3 https://youtu.be/3tF7hLF23iw Orange Pi 5 Plus -- Comparison Series 3 of 3 https://youtu.be/iHHOGtG_kw0 ----------------------------- ➡️ USB Type-C to A Cables Links The best bang for the buck if you don't need a Right Angle. https://amzn.to/3PIUyS9 The best Right Angle. https://amzn.to/454cpHz Right angle runner up. https://amzn.to/3ZqwfvN _________________ ➡️➡️Make sure to subscribe to my channel, there's a lot more to come and you don't want to miss it. It only takes a second 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦🌍🙌 ***Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Consulting*** Need help or just want to talk about cryptocurrency? Email me at: TheBitcoinMinerNC AT gmail DOT com Follow BitcoinMinerNC on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/BitcoinMinerNC Follow BitcoinMinerNC on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/BitcoinMinerNC ************************** What is the Verus Platform? https://youtu.be/eOn9XpjkuCA Website: https://verus.io Verus Discord: https://verus.io/discord The Community is YOU! 💙 Verus is not a business or bank, its a community driven project in the true spirit of Bitcoin — no ICO, no pre-mine, no founder or developers fees, with one-hundred percent of rewards from the network returned to miners and stakers. The true power of decentralization is putting power back in the hands of YOU!

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What's going on cryptocurrency Universe, it’s The Bitcoin Miner. In this one I’m down in the “dungeon” talking about something a lot of people ignore: the USB-C power cable. If you’re building a phone mining farm or stacking Orange Pi 5 SBCs at scale, the cable you choose actually matters. I tested a pile of cables that looked identical (and even came from different sellers with different listings), and a bunch of them were basically the same junk once they showed up. The big issue is resistance—undersized or low-quality cables waste power, run hotter, and just don’t seem to last. I tested mostly 6-foot cables using a kilowatt meter at the wall with a single Orange Pi on a power brick, then averaged the wattage. The best cables landed around 9.0W at the wall, while the worst cheap eBay cables hit about 9.8W—0.8W difference per device. That doesn’t sound like much until you scale to 100 boards and you’re burning an extra ~80W for no reason. My takeaway: don’t bother with the super cheap cables, look for thicker diameter cable, and stick to 6-foot when you can—3-foot wasn’t meaningfully better, but 10-foot definitely got worse even on “good” cables.

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