ANRANK USB 3.0 Female to Dual USB Male Extra Power Data Extension Cord Adapter Splitter Y-Cable Black

Wireless CarPlay wasn’t reliable on my iPhone 17, so I had to go back to wired. The included USB port doesn’t even give enough juice, so this cable does the trick - plug usb into cig lighter to get power, and other to USB input. Just make sure your last usb cable to your device delivers data as well as power - many don’t! 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Adds power to active USB extensions. I am using USB 2.0 Active extension 32' and that requires power. Regular Mac or PC ports do not provide sufficient power. So I use this to add 2.0A power to the cord, and it works great.

To make a long story short, some vehicles (looking at you Nissan Murano) with wired CarPlay don't produce enough juice at the main USB port to reliably power a wireless CarPlay adapter. This cable allows you to pull in extra power from a USB charger (presumably one of the ones in the cigarette lighter port), which then provides enough juice to power the wireless CarPlay adapter.

worked as expected

Works great, if you know what it's for. I needed some of these to power my usb drives attached to my pi because the pi basically doesn't supply power through the USB ports, so you have to power things separately. If you don't use something like this, the drive may appear to work at first but as soon as it needs more juice it glitches and you lose data.

My Virpil joysticks eat a lot of power from the USB bus, so I had to split the power sources to keep everything else from draining. This adapter allows you to use an extra USB port for power. You can also use a phone charger, and plug in a USB extension cable to get power. USB 2.0 will suffice for that purpose - just keep in mind that a powered bus doesn't turn the lights off on your devices. It just cuts the connection to the PC when it turns off. For joystick purposes, that would be useful so you don't have to keep recalibrating it. one would think digital connectivity would have solved the calibration issues by now.

Product arrived and the male power-only connector was squished and unusable. The rest looks fine but as it arrived it was broken.

I needed a way to run Android Auto without my phone running down it's charge. Up until recently, cars only supplied a small amount of power through the USB ports, because that is how the specification was written. Android Auto takes more juice than the original USB jack can produce. The solution is to use a high power adapter in the 12v socket, that has plenty of juice but it doesn't connect to your car's electronics to drive the car's built in screen. Plug this unit in, one plug to your high powered adapter, the other one to the car's data port. Then add a cord that is USB-A to USB-C to plug into your phone. It works! Android Auto without having to pay the $450 that the car dealership wants to install the high power USB kit. Note:. I tried to do this same thing using similar USB-C plugs, the problem is that USB-C cables have a chip that flags whether your connection is input or output and it will fight you all the way. Get this instead, it works.