USB / iPhone charging cables for the mega gram weenie

[Kodiak Firesmith]

http://plusus.co/product-category/life-link/#life-link

Weight not listed but I'm sure it's gotta be lighter than anything else out there.

[R Banks]

Wish I knew about these for my thru hike!! This looks awesome.

[Charlie W]

I'd suggest this for combo iPhone and USB micro charging (for SteriPen Freedom, Bosavi headlamp, etc):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KVCBU1K/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It's 9 grams on my scale, and currently $10.75 Amazon Prime.

[Ryan Smith]

That's pretty nifty. I like that it snaps together and makes it a little easier to store. The below is the lightest one I've seen so far. 4g

http://tinyurl.com/pu7x5ro

Ryan

[Kenneth Jacobs]

The cheap short (3-6") standard round wire cables never seem to last long before they split their housing our just plain start to come out of the back of the jack. I will be moving to one of these next: http://www.ebay.com/itm/141494980481?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&var=440646572413&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Not sure of their weight, but I'll take the weight penalty over having my cable loose it's connection on the trail. Snap a Lightning or Apple 30-pin adapter on the end of one of those in combo with one of these: http://www.fluxmob.com/collections/bolt/products/bolt-graphite …and I'm set for a thru hike.

HTH

KJ

[Kodiak Firesmith]

Great find on the key USB cable – I'm going to pick one of those up!

[Ryan H.]

3.9g for a mini-usb cable plus lightning adapter. I like the other one above though that has the lightning adapter attached so you don't lose it.

http://incharge.rocks/
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261735206525

I ordered the lightning version of that InCharge cable as well and it gives that "not authorized" message when i try to use it. Not sure if I just got a bad one. Too bad because it only weighs 3.1 grams.

[Kenneth Jacobs]

I have not been treating it nice…

HTH

KJ

[Adam Kilpatrick]

Ryan, I'm guessing your inCharge cables are the original ones from indigogo, rather than the newer Bolt version now up on Kickstarter?

I ordered two, micro usb.

Thanks for the tips everyone!

[Ryan H.]

Yeah, I received the original one from Indigogo.

Unfortunately I still haven't been able to get a replacement cable for the non-functioning lightning one. I emailed them like ten times but they are slow to respond or never do. Their customer service is total shit, but the cables are light if you can get a working one. Like I said, the micro usb ones seem to work fine, but the lightning ones don't. Maybe the new bolt ones is different..not sure.

-Ryan

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