Treedix USB Cable Tester, USB C Cable Tester, Usb Data Cable Tester Checker Board for USB-C, USB-A, USB-B, Micro Mini Lightning Cables, Quickly Sort Out the Heap of Usb Cables by Checking the Leds

HiPlease see my photos that accompany this review, they can be informative.The second one in particular shows what appears to be a light brown piece of card. Well that turns out to be the clear acrylic cover with a peelable brown protector that you need to remove..!For the cost the testing unit seems to be very well made and comes with the stand and cover, see photos.In my opinion it is worth paying a little more for those.The board itself has enough printed information on it to be useful.The detailed two sided manual is very well written, one side information about the board and how to power it up etc. The other side about the pin outs for each of the connections, well the LED lights.I have included a photo showing a USB 3 based cable connected and the corresponding lights that the board displays.I am still learning as to the boards full capability, but that can be understood in time.My only very slight concern is the need to be a little cautious when plugging and unplugging your leads. Perhaps a touch of hot melt glue to hold them in place might be useful, so far they seem fine.Overall a very useful board and a very good price.I very much recommend this USB cable tester.I do hope that this review has been useful for you.

It works great except the lightning connector is a little iffy. 5 stars if you ignore the lightning port...4 stars including it...1 star if you're buying it just to test lightning cables (don't)...for the price, it's well worth it just for testing all the USB variants...Also will test thunderbolt 4 cables (every led lights up one side...and if you flip the connector it'll flip to the other side....all pins are connected on a TB4 cable btw)...obviously won't tell you if it's 20 or 40gbps...but at least you know all pins have continuity...very cool.My only reservation is I think they could have used higher quality ports...the PCB and the soldering and construction is all 10/10...but the ports feel a little on the cheap side; time will tell if that's really an issue....

This is a nicely made unit but I find it a bit confusing. You get lots of lights up showing connections but it would be better if there were a way to test each wire individually - some USB C cables in particular have lots of connections commoned on one end but you cant see which is which - if there were a tester which could test each wire individually as well as all at once I think that would be something I would like. But this is a decent quality product for the money and what I would like does not seem to be available, though it might be at fancy Fluke prices!!!

I bought the one with the transparent cover, glad I did, it helps protect it from people like me.This is a super little device, simple and easy to use, and within half an hour I had sorted my 50 or so cables, and found the vast majority were not data cables, and those that were, all but one worked fine.Very good value for the money, and worked on all the cables I tested. There are some that are not compatible, but the PCB would need to be huge to accommodate everything, but this is great for all the usual ones that plug into a PC.

I have a lot of usb cables. I also have no idea what some of my cables are rated for. Are they type c but usb 2.0? Type a to c and usb 3.1? Power only?This device solved all those problems. It was dead easy to read, well built and quickly and accurately gave me all the info I needed. At around £15 this is a bargain. It showed me a type a to c cable with a missing data line (which I thought was a dodgy external SSD enclosure), it showed me a load of my cables were power only and some of my type c to c cables were only usb 2.0.The only cable it couldn't test was a type a to type a cable, but an a to c adapter fixed that and it worked perfectly.Overall it was definitely worth it and it probably saved me some money on buying a new external ssd enclosure when it was just a faulty cable.

The one I ordered from Amazon never turned up, so managed to find one on eBay. Amazon did however give me a refund. Build quality seems great. Easy to use and works well. Particularly useful for cables with a USB-C connector, which can have many configurations depending on their use and orientation.

As many people, I have lots of various USB cables at home of different origin, quality, type, speed rating and plug geometry. Oftentimes, it is frustrating to figure out why a particular cable does not work as expected - is it because of problem with the device I am plugging it in, because it is charge only, maybe it is USB 2.0 while the device requires 3.1 or just faulty.This nifty self-contained gizmo removes the guesswork - it quickly tests cable (and has connectivity for seemingly every conceivable USB plug variation), displays it compliance, maximum rating and status of actual individual data and power lines. So you have all the information at a glance. Very illuminating, fast and convenient.And the fact that it uses own onboard battery and hence requires no external power source makes it doubly convenient.

One can never have too much test gear, and this low cost little device makes checking USB cables very easy. My only criticism is that it won't test A-A cables, but that can be worked around by using an adapter. There is an on-line manual on the Treedix main website.