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1 October 2020

GaN they pull the stacking game off?

Hyper, a gadget maker known best for its small and ultra-fast gallium nitride (GaN) chargers under the HyperJuice brand, is back on Kickstarter with a new plug that’s even more impressive than its last: a stackable GaN charger that can support an eye-popping 1600W of passthrough power. This follows Hyper’s first 100W GaN charger released via Kickstarter last fall and made available for purchase back in July. The charger, which comes in a 65W option with three plugs (two USB-C and one USB-A) and a 100W option with four plugs (three USB-C and one USB-A), has a built-in plug of its own rated at 1500W, so the charger can be plugged into a second unit to multiply the passthrough power available and double the ports. (Or in the event you just don’t want to lose an outlet.) Hyper says you can actually stack 16 of the 100W model on top of one another for a max of 1600W, 48 USB-C ports, and 16 USB-A ports. But think about this for a minute: are you sure you want to piggyback 16 plugs into one socket? I’m not saying not to do it but just be careful because it’s bad enough they have power boards with multiple plugs in them where all the appliances have to share one socket and risk drawing too much current (the maximum load on a socket can vary from 10-16 amps depending on where you live). I think 16 piggybacked outlets is just asking for trouble.

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