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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The current ability for the pinecil to show the negotiated PD voltage and current in the PD debug menu is very useful for verifying capabilities of power supplies and cables, however it can be difficult to tell if a cable is limiting the potential wattage of the power supply, since it only shows what has ultimately been negotiated.
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be nice if the pinecil could read the E-Marker chip of the cable (if present) and display its rating data, so that the user can determine if a wattage bottleneck is with the cable or the power supply. Integrating this into the existing PD debug menu would be ideal.
Here's an example of the kind of E-Marker data I'd like to see:
Tag Name
Example Data
Vendor ID
Yichong (0x315c)
Type
Passive Thunderbolt 4 Cable
Speed
USB 4.0 Gen3 (40Gb) TBT4 40Gbps
Length
0-1m
Latency
<10ns
Max Voltage
50v
Max Current
5A
Hardware Ver
0004
Firmware Ver
0005
Describe alternatives you've considered
There are dedicated hardware tools to test power supply capabilities that can read E-Marker chip data, such as the ChargerLAB Power-Z KM003C USB tester, however I feel like this is something that the pinecil would be well suited to do in a simpler form.
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The current ability for the pinecil to show the negotiated PD voltage and current in the PD debug menu is very useful for verifying capabilities of power supplies and cables, however it can be difficult to tell if a cable is limiting the potential wattage of the power supply, since it only shows what has ultimately been negotiated.
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be nice if the pinecil could read the E-Marker chip of the cable (if present) and display its rating data, so that the user can determine if a wattage bottleneck is with the cable or the power supply. Integrating this into the existing PD debug menu would be ideal.
Here's an example of the kind of E-Marker data I'd like to see:
Describe alternatives you've considered
There are dedicated hardware tools to test power supply capabilities that can read E-Marker chip data, such as the ChargerLAB Power-Z KM003C USB tester, however I feel like this is something that the pinecil would be well suited to do in a simpler form.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: