DavidEF
June 29, 2018, 6:39pm
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Dave_C:
Enderman:
Delta_V:
Magnetic charging like Armyteks or Klarus, where it works with any battery. Not having to deal with rubber port covers or worry about them failing is nice. Just don’t make it like Olight where it only works with their proprietary batteries.
Type C would be my 2nd choice because it is reversible, more durable, and it would be nice to get all of my electronics using a single cable type.
Magnetic chargers kinda suck because you have exposed contacts which can short, but also require a proprietary connector.
It is possible to make USB C ports waterproof so that they don’t require a cover, but the cover is still good to prevent dirt from getting in.
I agree that magnetic charging is not ubiquitous enough yet but the way to get there is make a robust design and NOT patent it, or only do so in order that others can’t, and freely offer it to the industry. Get it out in to the world and let others copy it into their designs.
It would not need to have exposed contacts to the extent that it was easy to short them out. They could easily be recessed just enough that it would take a deliberately matching shape, piece of metal to do so. For example we see this all the time with small mechanical connectors, don’t usually have objects getting inside them and shorting the connector out, unless you happened to have a pocket full of metal shavings.
I think somebody is confused about magnetic charging. It doesn’t need any contacts at all! It uses a changing magnetic field to induce a charge. Some phones have magnetic charging capability in addition to a regular USB charging jack. Magnetism is universal and AFAIK, magnetic charge induction isn’t a patented process.