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Tama 32W USB PD Car Charger Offers Fast 27W USB-C Charging with USB Power Delivery For Mobile Devices

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The Tama 32W USB PD Car Charger can be used to keep your USB Type-C devices and other peripherals charged up inside your car. The charger supports USB Power Delivery 2.0 technology over its USB Type-C output port for up to 27W to quickly charge recent Apple iPhone's and iPad's that can use USB Power Delivery like the Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max and 11-inch iPad Pro (2018) or Android phones such as the Google Pixel 4 XL and Samsung Galaxy Note10+. The other non USB Power Delivery based USB Type-A port on the charger offers up to 5W power to charge various peripherals.

Through USB Power Delivery over Type-C, the Tama 32W USB PD Car Charger states that it can support charging using common USB Power Delivery profiles of 15 watts (5 volts @ 3 amps), 27 watts (9 volts @ 3 amps) and 27 watts (12 volts @ 2.25 amps). The charger also advertises the USB-IF logo on its box which means that it has been USB-IF certified.

The Tama 32W USB PD Car Charger comes without any cable accessory which means you will need to carry along your own cable to plug in to the charger.

To observe the power capabilities of the Tama 32W USB PD Car Charger, we used the USB Power Test App from Granite River Labs with the Granite River Labs USB Power Delivery Compliance C2 Tester to generate the following test results.

The USB Power Test App first negotiates a power contract for every PDO supported by the Tama 32W USB PD Car Charger, and increases the load gradually to find the threshold where over current protection (OCP) kicks in and voltage and current start to drop for safety reasons.

OCP Plot for PDO #1 and #3

OCP Plot for PDO #2

The USB Power Test App reports out all the PDO's supported by the Tama charger and their OCP thresholds. OCP thresholds for the charger are set at about 17-20% above the maximum current levels for the PDO's.

PDOOCP
PDO#1 Fixed: 5V 3A3.62
PDO#2 Fixed: 9V 3A3.58
PDO#3 Fixed: 12V 2.25A2.65

Using the USB Power Test App and FLIR thermal imaging tools, we measured the heat emitted by the Tama charger as seen in the following temperature graph for the highest 12V, 2.25A PDO, which recorded max temperature of around 44 degree Celsius.

Using the USB Power Delivery Compliance C2 Tester from Granite River Labs to run just a subset of the full USB Power Delivery compliance test suite, we can confirm that the Tama charger supports the following fixed PDO's as claimed- 15 watts (5 volts @ 3 amps), 27 watts (9 volts @ 3 amps) and 27 watts (12 volts @ 2.25 amps). Note some compliance failures were also observed for this charger.

Source Capabilities

Parameter

GetCapabilities

Src_PDO_Supply_Type #1

Fixed

Src_PDO_Voltage #1

5000

Src_PDO_Max_Current #1

3000

Src_PDO_Supply_Type #2

Fixed

Src_PDO_Voltage #2

9000

Src_PDO_Max_Current #2

3000

Src_PDO_Supply_Type #3

Fixed

Src_PDO_Voltage #3

12000

Src_PDO_Max_Current #3

2250

PD2 Deterministic Tests- Result Summary

Sl No

Test ID

Test Name

Test Result

1

TD.PD.LL.E1

TD.PD.LL.E1 GoodCrc Timing

PASS

2

TD.PD.LL.E2

TD.PD.LL.E2 Retransmission

PASS

3

TD.PD.LL.E3

TD.PD.LL.E3 Soft Reset Usage

PASS

4

TD.PD.LL.E4

TD.PD.LL.E4 Hard Reset Usage

PASS

5

TD.PD.LL.E5

TD.PD.LL.E5 Soft Reset

PASS

6

TD.PD.SRC.E1

TD.PD.SRC.E1 Source Capabilities sent timely

PASS

7

TD.PD.SRC.E2

TD.PD.SRC.E2 Source Capabilities Fields Checks

PASS

8

TD.PD.SRC.E3

TD.PD.SRC.E3 SourceCapabilityTimer Timeout

PASS

9

TD.PD.SRC.E4

TD.PD.SRC.E4 SenderResponseTimer Deadline Request

PASS

10

TD.PD.SRC.E5

TD.PD.SRC.E5 SenderResponseTimer Timeout Request

PASS

11

TD.PD.SRC.E6

TD.PD.SRC.E6 PSHardResetTimer Timeout

PASS

12

TD.PD.SRC.E7

TD.PD.SRC.E7 Accept sent timely

PASS

13

TD.PD.SRC.E8

TD.PD.SRC.E8 Accept Fields Checks

PASS

14

TD.PD.SRC.E9

TD.PD.SRC.E9 PS RDY sent timely

PASS

15

TD.PD.SRC.E10

TD.PD.SRC.E10 PS RDY Fields Checks

PASS

16

TD.PD.SRC.E11

TD.PD.SRC.E11 Accept Requests can be met

PASS

17

TD.PD.SRC.E12

TD.PD.SRC.E12 Reject Requests cannot be met

PASS

18

TD.PD.SRC.E13

TD.PD.SRC.E13 Reject Request Invalid Object Position

PASS

19

TD.PD.SRC.E14

TD.PD.SRC.E14 Atomic Message Sequence

PASS

20

TD.PD.SRC.E15

TD.PD.SRC.E15 Give Source Cap

PASS

21

TD.PD.SRC.E16

TD.PD.SRC.E16 PDO Transition

PASS

24

TD.PD.VDMD.E3

TD.PD.VDMD.E3 Incorrect Fields Discover Identity

PASS

25

TD.PD.VDMD.E4

TD.PD.VDMD.E4 Applicability

PASS

28

TD.PD.PHY.E1

TD.PD.PHY.E1 BIST Test Data

PASS

31

TD.PD.PHY.E4

TD.PD.PHY.E4 Transmitter Bit Rate and Bit Rate Drift

PASS

32

TD.PD.PHY.E5

TD.PD.PHY.E5 Transmitter Collision Avoidance

PASS

33

TD.PD.PHY.E6

TD.PD.PHY.E6 Receiver Swing Tolerance

PASS

34

TD.PD.PHY.E7

TD.PD.PHY.E7 Receiver Bit Rate Tolerance

PASS

35

TD.PD.PHY.E8

TD.PD.PHY.E8 Receiver Bit Rate Deviation Tolerance

PASS

36

TD.PD.PHY.E9

TD.PD.PHY.E9 Valid SOP Framing

PASS

37

TD.PD.PHY.E10

TD.PD.PHY.E10 Invalid SOP Framing

PASS

38

TD.PD.PHY.E11

TD.PD.PHY.E11 Valid SOP P Framing

PASS

39

TD.PD.PHY.E12

TD.PD.PHY.E12 Invalid SOP P Framing

PASS

40

TD.PD.PHY.E13

TD.PD.PHY.E13 Valid SOP PP Framing

PASS

41

TD.PD.PHY.E14

TD.PD.PHY.E14 Invalid SOP PP Framing

PASS

42

TD.PD.PHY.E15

TD.PD.PHY.E15 SOP P_Debug SOP PP Debug Framing

PASS

43

TD.PD.PHY.E16

TD.PD.PHY.E16 Valid Hard Reset Framing

PASS

44

TD.PD.PHY.E17

TD.PD.PHY.E17 Invalid Hard Reset Framing

PASS

45

TD.PD.PHY.E18

TD.PD.PHY.E18 Valid Cable Reset Framing

PASS

46

TD.PD.PHY.E19

TD.PD.PHY.E19 Invalid Cable Reset Framing

PASS

47

TD.PD.PHY.E20

TD.PD.PHY.E20 EOP Framing

PASS

48

TD.PD.PHY.E21

TD.PD.PHY.E21 Preamble

PASS

PD2 Communication Engine Tests- Result Summary

Sl No

Test ID

Test Name

Test Result

1

TDA.2.1.1.1

TDA.2.1.1.1 BMC PHY TX EYE

PASS

2

TDA.2.1.1.2

TDA.2.1.1.2 BMC PHY TX BIT

PASS

3

TDA.2.1.2.2

TDA.2.1.2.2 BMC PHY RX INT REJ

FAIL

4

TDA.2.1.2.1

TDA.2.1.2.1 BMC PHY RX BUSIDL

FAIL

5

TDA.2.1.3.1

TDA.2.1.3.1 BMC PHY TERM

PASS

6

TDA.2.1.3.2

TDA.2.1.3.2 BMC PHY MSG

PASS

7

TDA.2.2.1

TDA.2.2.1 BMC PROT SEQ GETCAPS

PASS

8

TDA.2.2.2.1

TDA.2.2.2.1 BMC PROT SEQ CHKCAB P PC

FAIL

13

TDA.2.2.7

TDA.2.2.7 BMC PROT BIST NOT 5V SRC

PASS

15

TDA.2.2.9

TDA.2.2.9 BMC PROT GSC REC

PASS

16

TDA.2.3.1.1

TDA.2.3.1.1 POW SRC LOAD P PC

PASS

BMC Eye Diagram​

Eye Diagram

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