(01-05-2022, 06:28 PM)River Wrote:(01-28-2021, 12:04 PM)foobarney Wrote: Does anyone know a source for a reasonably-priced USB-C cable with a silicone jacket? It would be nice to have a power cable the iron can't melt.
The TS80 kit evidently includes a nice one, but it can't be ordered separately (AFAIK) and is an A-to-C cable, and I'd want C-to-C to use PD.
For that matter, does anyone make a silicone barrel-style power cable? That would be easy enough to adapt, I'd think .
EDIT: This looks promising--a 2m silicone USB C-to-C cable for under $5 shipped on Aliexpress. Granted, it could be absolute crap, and I'll probably be vaccinated before it shows up, but hey ... promising.
I bought a couple of the USB-C silicone cables from Pine64 store , real value at about $3.50 each. they are flexible and heat resistant. It did not increase the $11.99 shipping cost to include them and I regret not getting more at the time. Will definitely order more of them when I do another pine64 order.
These cables really do seem to be popular, as when I ordered my Pinecil, there were no 1.5M cables in stock, so I hade to make do with a 1M cable.
By the way, does anyone know how resistant to heat are Lenovo's OEM charger cables (as in, the ones that are soldered onto the charger)?
I had recently purchased a ThinkPad L14 Gen1 (AMD) that does not post (with the intention of repairing it), so I also got it's stock charger with it (unfortunately, it is the ungrounded variant, however at least I have plenty of spare Europlug cables to replace the NEMA cable, though I do have a few of my country's standard's cables for once I order a Framework charger, either via a friend in the US, or once they are available in my country (in which case it will be unnecessary).
Funnily enough, this will probably mean that I am going to use the ThinkPad's charger with the Pinecil to repair the ThinkPad.
