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Comment by timenova

I think someday it would be amazing to have 1500W to 3000W kettles simply being powered by Type C, and other home appliances too. Wall sockets in most places in the house could simply be the universal Type C port, and since Type C does power negotiation, it'll be safe to connect a low-power appliance to a high-power Type C outlet.

The key requirement for this (after the spec comes along) would be high quality high-power rated Type C cables, and safe high-power Type C outlets. No need for each appliance to have different sorts of cables (mostly irreplaceable and fixed length) which don't fit some outlets correctly.

Maybe after some regulations, it would even be easy to update the firmware of those home appliances to open source alternatives.

parent timenova 3 years ago

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