Amazon Removes Poorly Manufactured USB Cables

For those of us in the Cable Assembly business we are faced with low cost imports being sold in the UK market place enticing unsuspecting consumers to buy what looks like really cheap cables only to find out they either don’t work or worse fry your circuit boards/ devices. A recent example of this comes […]

A Blog on Branded v Generic Connectors

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We are all familiar with shops own v branded products they are everywhere including the electronics and cable assembly industries.  The questions I am going to be asking today is how do you know when it’s ok to go own brand/generic and does it make any difference anyway? Let’s take a look at the basic […]

USB Type-C or 3.1 Has Arrived!

It’s finally here the USB Type C or 3.1 if you like. Adopted by Apple for their Macbook and the Google Chromebook laptops it’s hopefully going to make thing a lot simpler for a change. Here are the technical details: USB 3.1 Type-C cables offer a transfer rate of 10Gbps, which is double the transfer […]

USB Type-C is Coming soon

According to USB.ORG the development of USB of the new USB Type C Connector is well on the way, with the initial design under review by the very distinguished panel of members which will agree specifications. These are exciting times, I am sure you will agree!  Some of the features we can expect are that […]

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