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How the iVoler 75W USB Type C Charger Uses USB Power Delivery to Charge the Nintendo Switch Console with Joy-Con Controllers

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The iVoler 75W USB Type C Charger with Power Delivery (click here for Amazon pricing) claims to provide rapid charging over the USB Type-C interface with 15 watts (5 volts @ 3 amps), 27 watts (9 volts @ 3 amps), 45 watts (15 volts @ 3 amps), and 60 watts (20 volts @ 3 amps) power profiles. This should allow you to quickly charge certain USB Type-C devices like the Nintendo Switch Console, however the Switch is observed to receive only a mere 9 watts of charging by the iVoler charger using USB Power Delivery.

Note charging takes place while the Switch Console is turned off at zero charge and attached with the left and right Joy-Con controllers.

When directly connected over USB Type-C, the iVoler 75W USB Type C Charger can be seen to negotiate USB Power Delivery with the Nintendo Switch Console by offering an initial 15 watts (5 volts @ 3 amps), 27 watts (9 volts @ 3 amps), and 45 watts (15 volts @ 3 amps) power profiles.

The Nintendo Switch Console first requests only 7.5 watts (15 volts @ 0.5 amps) from the iVoler charger.

After the iVoler charger provided the 7.5 watts, we can see the Switch Console finally requests the full 45 watts (15 volts @ 3 amps) which the charger also accepts.

Later we also observe that the iVoler 75W USB Type C Charger adds on another power profile of 60 watts (20 volts @ 3 amps) to its initial 15 watts (5 volts @ 3 amps), 27 watts (9 volts @ 3 amps), and 45 watts (15 volts @ 3 amps) profiles.

Rather than taking advantage of this additional PDO, the Nintendo Switch Console again requests the initial 7.5 watts (15 volts @ 0.5 amps) to repeat the same negotiation cycle with the iVoler charger.

While being charged with both Joy-Con controllers attached, the Nintendo Switch Console from a fully depleted battery is only pulling  around 9 watts (15 volts @ 0.6 amps) from the iVoler charger without any active gameplay. Given the slow charging wattage, it takes quite some time for the Switch Console to finally turn on and start consuming more power used to support the Joy Con controllers.

The Nintendo Switch Console is still able to charge with the third party iVoler 75W USB Type C Charger but at a much lower power than when using its own Nintendo Switch AC Adapter in this review.

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