jbern25 wrote:Hi Acer,
Just like to check if the USB Type-C port of Swift 3 will work on a third-party universal charger like below. Based from the manual, USB Type-C charging will work with 45watts charger. The mentioned charger below is rated 45watts with DC output 20V/2.25A (45watts) or 15V/3A (45watts) or 12V/3A or 5V/3A. But it does not have the same output as the original charger (19V/2.37A).
http://www.myinnergie.com/us/product/99
Please help to confirm is this will work.
Thanks!
I bought this charger from amazon and promptly returned it. It does not work.
Acer refuses apparently to use a standardised USB-C power output, instead it uses its propriatary power output which is the same as the bundled charger (2.37A @ 19V). The innergie charger should offer 45W at two outputs, 3A @ 15V and 2.25A @ 20V but that is not recognised by the laptop. It doesn't even state the message "connected, not charging" which you would typically get if you had a lower powered charger on a laptop.
This is a big big letdown for me and I'm very dissapointed that acer did this.
I get that its maybe because that using a standardised USB-C output would require them to add another charging circuit which would in turn ramp up the price, but still, a very bad decision.
I tried charging my swift 3 with the swift 7 charger which is USB C and has the correct 2.37A @ 19V output and that DOES charge the swift 3.
The downside is that the swift 7 charger is way bulkier than it needs to be and is also very hard to come by. I would really like to carry only one charger in my bag that would charge my phone and my laptop, which also should be a lot smaller than the swift 7 charger, but we are out of luck as it seems.
