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SABRENT USB Charging Station 252 W 8-Port PD 3.0 with LCD Display – GaN Charger Charger – Fast Charging Station for USB-C & USB-A Devices, Laptops, Smartphones – PPS, Overcharge Protection: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/08

This is a cool device as explained in the below video: [Wayback/Archive] SABRENT USB Charging Station 252 W 8-Port PD 3.0 with LCD Display – GaN Charger Charger – Fast Charging Station for USB-C & USB-A Devices, Laptops, Smartphones – PPS, Overcharge Protection: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories

Despite good, I put this comment below the video:

One gripe I have with this device is the location of the power cable connector: it should have been on the display side so you can put it up-right on a flat surface.

This device doesn’t, but many other devices drop all charging ports when inserting a new USB cable. [Wayback/Archive] der.Schtefan explains under the video why those do: laziness.

The dropping of all charge ports, followed by renegotiation, happens usually on chargers that are overprovisioned. They advertise “4xUSB – 100 W!” but it is 100 W total, not combined. So when you plug in a device that wants 70 W (MacBook), and then a smartphone with fast charging and PPS (40W), then the hub renegotiates the devices to figure out how to distribute the 100 W with 110 W of demand – which is stupid – but that’s the reason. The idiotic thing is that the chargers do this even when it is not required, out of lazyness.

Hopefully more will follow, for which I am positive via the comment by [Wayback/Archive] Kenny S:

There seems to have been new chips or circuits released to chinese manufacturers. I bought two very similar power supplies, albeit lacking the display, and they work exactly as yours does. Another similarity I noticed is that both of them have 4 USB-C and 4 USB-A ports, and from what I see on AliExpress and Amazon, this seems to be a shared trait among them, so I think these contain some sort of charging IC that has this topology.

And [Wayback/Archive] charles turner:

If you need more power than this, I just checked and my SlimQ 330w brick does this too.
2x 100w USB-C PD ports
1x 330w 20V DC port
No renegotiation at all between any of the ports, it does however just cut out if you try and pull more than 330w combined.

I will need to check the other power bricks I have.

The video: [Wayback/Archive] Hear me out… a multiport USB-C charger that’s not dumb – YouTube

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--jeroen

[Wayback/Archive] Hear me out… a multiport USB-C charger that’s not dumb – YouTube

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