Recently, the well-known brand ANKER has launched a six-port desktop charger Mini, equipped with 4C2A and six USB ports. It can charge up to six devices simultaneously and provides a total output power of up to 130W. Among them, the USB-C interface supports 100W and 20W PD fast charging respectively, and is compatible with fast charging protocols such as UFCS and PD, ensuring compatibility without being picky about devices.

What's even more astonishing in terms of design is that the ANKER desktop charger is extremely compact and thin, measuring only 1.9cm. This enables it to support charging for multiple devices without taking up much desktop space, greatly ensuring the tidiness of the user's desktop. In addition, its extreme compactness, thinness and lightness also make it possible for users to carry it during business trips. Now let's take a look at the specific design of this product together.

Unboxing of ANKER 130W Six-Port Desktop Mini Charger

The front of the packaging box is printed with the ANKER brand, product appearance, name and selling points.

The back is printed with the product's usage scenarios and parameter information.

Here is a close-up of the product parameters on the back. We will introduce them again in the physical display section.

The package contains ANKER six-port desktop Mini charger, power cord, storage bag and user manual, etc.

The two ends of the power cord are a two-pin plug and an 8-pin plug respectively. The pins are covered with plastic shells for protection, and the cables are tied and organized with magic cable ties.

The power cord plug is designed with small concave surfaces on both the front and back, making it convenient for users to plug and unplug.

The rear part of the plug pins has undergone insulation protection treatment, and the design is meticulous.

The plug specification is 10A 250V~ and has passed CCC certification.

The measured length of the cable is 152cm.

The ANKER 130W six-port desktop charger Mini adopts a flat square design. The shell is made of high flame-retardant and fireproof material. The main color is classic white, and the side is sprayed with silver-gray metallic paint to enhance the texture.

The center of the top surface is designed with the ANKER brand.

The front end of the body is equipped with four USB-C interfaces, all of which adopt the classic blue brand color of ANKER.

Two USB-A interfaces are configured on the side.

There is an 8-character input interface at the rear.

The bottom of the body is designed with anti-slip pads at all four ends, and the product nameplate information is printed on the central area of the shell.

Close-up of ANKER 130W Six-Port Desktop Mini Charger Parameters

Model: A2155

Input: 100-240V~50/60Hz 2.0A

Single-port output

Usb-1:5V3A, 9V3A, 15V3A, 20V5A (100W Max)

USB-C2:5V3A, 9V3A, 15V3A, 20V3.25A (65W Max)

USB-C3/C4:5V3A, 9V2.22A (20W Max)

USB-A1/USB-A2:5V 2.4a (12W Max)

Dual-port output: Maximum 130W

Three-port output: Maximum 130W

Four-port output: Maximum 127W

Five-port output: Maximum 129W

Six-port output: Maximum 129W

Total output: Maximum 130W

The product has passed the CCC certification.

The actual measured length of the ANKER six-port desktop charger Mini is 98.2mm.

The width is 93.11mm.

The thickness is 20.27mm.

The intuitive perception of the size of the product when held in hand.

In addition, the weight of the ANKER six-port desktop Mini charger was measured to be approximately 317g.

Using ChargerLAB POWER-Z KM003C, it was measured that the USB-C1 port supports UFCS, FCP, SCP, QC3+/5, SFCP, PD3.0, PPS, DCP, SAM 2A, and Apple 2.4A charging protocols.

The PDO message shows that the USB-C1 port also has four fixed voltage ranges of 5V3A, 9V3A, 15V3A, and 20V5A, as well as two PPS voltage ranges of 4.5-21V5A.

It was measured that the UFCS fusion fast charging has one voltage range of 5-11V3A.

It is measured that the USB-C2 port supports charging protocols such as UFCS, FCP, SCP, QC3+/5, SFCP, PD3.0, PPS, DCP, SAM 2A, and Apple 2.4A.

The PDO message indicates that the USB-C2 port also has four fixed voltage ranges: 5V3A, 9V3A, 15V3A, and 20V3.25A, as well as two PPS voltage ranges: 5-11V5A and 4.5-21V3A.

It was measured that the UFCS fusion fast charging has one voltage range of 5-11V3A.

It was measured that the USB-C3 port supports charging protocols such as FCP, AFC, QC3.0, PD3.0, DCP, SAM 2A, and Apple 2.4A.

The PDO message indicates that the USB-C3 port also has two fixed voltage ranges: 5V3A and 9V2.22A.

It was measured that the USB-C4 port also supports FCP, AFC, QC3.0, PD3.0, DCP, SAM 2A, and Apple 2.4A charging protocols.

In addition, the PDO message is also the same as that of the USB-C3 port.

It was measured that the USB-A1 port supports DCP and Apple 2.4A charging protocols.

It was measured that the USB-A1 port supports DCP and Apple 2.4A charging protocols.

Disassembly of ANKER 130W Six-Port Desktop Charger Mini

Disassemble the body shell, and the inner side is covered with aluminum foil insulating heat dissipation stickers.

A large amount of grey thermal conductive adhesive is filled on the PCBA module.

Remove the thermal conductive adhesive and take out the PCBA module. The same heat dissipation design has also been made on the other half of the shell.

The interface female socket of the PCBA module input end is welded to the independent small board, and then connected to the main board through the small board to achieve power supply. The upper left corner and the right side are both covered with brass heat sinks, and some capacitors are insulated and protected by rubber sleeves.

Remove the heat sink in the end corner area. Below it, there are filter inductors, filter capacitors and primary switch tubes. Moreover, the primary switch tubes are attached with thermal pads to better transfer heat.

The back of the motherboard is also covered with insulating Mylar sheets and brass heat sinks.

Clean the thermal conductive adhesive thoroughly and remove the input end small board.

A view of the front of the PCBA module: The lower right corner of the board is equipped with safe-spec X2 capacitors, common-mode inductors, high-voltage filter electrolytic capacitors and other components. The left area is also equipped with output filter solid-state capacitors, filter inductors and other devices. The central area is equipped with a planar transformer, while the upper area is provided with multiple secondary step-down circuit step-down protocol chips, synchronous step-down switch tubes, step-down inductors, secondary filter solid-state capacitors, VBUS switch tubes and other devices.

A clear view of the front of the input small board: On the left side of the female socket, there is a delay fuse and a varistor.

A view of the back of the motherboard: It is equipped with rectifier Bridges, primary and secondary controllers of switching power supplies, synchronous rectifier tubes, step-down protocol chips, synchronous step-down switch tubes, VBUS switch tubes and other components, as well as a transformer and an output filter capacitor sink plate for processing.

The delay fuse is from Sapphire, with a specification of 5A250V.

The varistor is from Dongguan Chengxi Electronics, with a specification of 10D681KH.

All three safety-spec X2 capacitors are from Chengxi Electronics and each has a specification of 0.1μF.

Dual-wire winding of common mode inductors is used to filter out EMI interference.

Another common mode inductor is insulated and protected by a heat shrink tube.

Two rectifier Bridges are from ZOWIE, model LSR120M, with a specification of 12A 1000V, and are packaged in Z4PAK-DS.

The high-voltage filter capacitor is from KINLS Sapphire, with a specification of 400V18μF.

The MPP film filter capacitor is from Chengxi Electronics, with a specification of 1μF450V.

Another thin-film filter capacitor is also from Chengxi Electronics, with the same part number.

The filter inductor is insulated and protected by a heat shrink tube.

The primary main control chip is from Renesas, with a silk screen printing of 5H, model iW3627-00. It is a single-stage AC/DC constant voltage controller with power factor correction function, supporting both isolated and non-isolated topologies. It can achieve extremely low load and line voltage regulation rates without the need for secondary feedback circuits. The chip does not require external loop compensation components and is packaged in SOT23.

The primary switch tube is from Gallium Future, model G2N70R150TA-H. It is a gallium nitride switch tube with a withstand voltage of 700V and a peak withstand voltage of 800V, and a conductance of 150mΩ. The device features a robust gate, which simplifies the gate drive design and offers the best performance and outstanding reliability.

The G2N70R150TA-H of GATA Future is suitable for hard-switching bridge circuits, such as continuous current mode totem pole bridge PFC or inverter, (bidirectional) HVDC Buck step-down circuits or Boost boost circuits with synchronous rectification, and is also applicable to high-frequency and high-efficiency phase-shifted full-bridge, LLC or other soft-switching topologies. It adopts the TO-220-3L package.

The power supply capacitor for the main control chip is also from sapphire, with a specification of 50V47μF.

The planar transformer is wrapped with high-temperature resistant insulating tape and treated with countersunk plates to reduce its thickness.

Close-up of Everlight EL1018 optocoupler, used for output voltage feedback.

The surface mount Y capacitors are from Sichuan Terui Xiang Technology Co., LTD. They feature small size and light weight, making them highly suitable for application in high-density power supply products such as gallium nitride fast charging. Material number: TMY1102M.

Charging Head Network has learned that In addition to being used in dozens of high-power chargers such as the 100W gallium nitride fast charger certified by Bex Qualcomm QC5, the 100W gallium nitride charger from Meiduoduo, the 65W Super Flash Charge gallium nitride charger from OPPO, the 90W gallium nitride fast charger from Lenovo, the 65W gallium nitride charger from Nubia, and the 120W gallium nitride + silicon carbide PD fast charger from Bex It can also be applied to 20W mini fast charging devices of brands such as Hailutong, First Guard, and Belkin, and its performance has been unanimously recognized by customers.

Another Terrex surface mount Y capacitor has the component number TMY1101K.

The synchronous rectifier controller is from Renesas, silk-screen printed L9, model iW610-01C, supporting QR, ZVS, ACF and LLC switching power supply applications. The chip supports DCM and CCM working modes, supports low-side and high-side applications, and supports an output voltage range of 3-28V. It is packaged in SOT23.

The synchronous rectifier tube is from Pingwei, model PW120N15ES, NMOS, with a withstand voltage of 150V and a resistance of 9.3mΩ. It is packaged in DFN5*6. A surface mount NTC thermistor is installed at the top to detect the internal temperature rise of the desktop charger.

The specifications of the two output filter solid-state capacitors are 35V820μF.

Another one is from sapphire, with a specification of 35V2200μF.

Close-up of the filter inductor.

Close-up of the LED indicator light.

The protocol step-down chip for the USB-C1 interface is from Zhirong Technology, model SW3566S. This is a C+C dual-port SoC that integrates a 7A Buck controller, supports 140W (28V@5A) power output, and supports multiple fast charging protocols such as PD3.1.

The SW3566 is embedded with an ARM Cortex-M0 core, integrates Type-C interface logic, PD3.1 PHY, UFCS PHY, SCP/AFC PHY, TFCP PHY, and fast charging protocol detection circuits such as QC/PE/SFCP, and only requires a small number of peripheral devices. It can then form a complete high-performance C+C dual-port fast charging solution.

The SW3566 integrates CC/CV mode, dual-port management logic and bus voltage detection. When paired with the corresponding step-down switch tube and VBUS switch tube, it can achieve dual-port step-down output. The built-in step-down converter in the chip operates at frequencies of 125KH, 180KH, 333KH, and 500KH, and supports both PWM and PFM working modes. The protection thresholds such as output current and line loss compensation can all be set through the MCU. The built-in ADC can achieve data sampling of 9 channels including input and output voltage, output current, and chip temperature, and supports external MCU for parameter display.

SW3566 supports an input voltage of 36V and a maximum output current of 7A. The chip is equipped with built-in soft start, input overvoltage/undervoltage protection, output overvoltage/undervoltage protection, output overcurrent/short circuit protection, DP/DM/CC overvoltage protection, chip over-temperature protection, external NTC thermistor protection, and power limiting protection. The chip is packaged in QFN4*4-32.

Information on Zhirong Technology SW3566S.

Two synchronous step-down switch tubes of model YG045N04ADE, with a withstand voltage of 40V and a resistance of 4.5mΩ, are packaged in PDFN3*3.

The matching step-down inductor is covered with heat shrink tubing insulation protection.

The specifications of the step-down output filter solid-state capacitors are 35V100μF and 25V270μF respectively.

The model of the VBUS switch tube for the USB-C1 port is also YG045N04ADE.

The protocol step-down chip for the USB-C2 port also adopts the SW3566S from Zhirong Technology.

The two synchronous step-down switch tubes and the output VBUS switch tube of the USB-C2 port are also made of YG045N04ADE.

Close-up of the step-down inductor for the USB-C2 port.

The specifications of the two solid-state filter capacitors for the secondary step-down output filter are 35V100μF and 25V220μF respectively.

The step-down protocol chip of the USB-C3 port is from Zhirong Technology, model SW3526S. The chip integrates a 3.5A high-efficiency synchronous rectification step-down converter internally, supporting charging protocols such as PPS, PD, QC, AFC, FCP, SCP, PE, SFCP, and low-voltage direct charging, and supports CC/CV mode. Only a few external components are required. It can then form a complete high-performance multi-fast charging protocol charging solution.

Thanks to the high integration of the chip, the SW3526S condenses and integrates the protocol chip, synchronous step-down controller and step-down MOSFET in the traditional fast charging step-down solution into a single package, greatly simplifying the circuit design of multi-port fast charging. In addition, the new Tesla model uses lithium batteries instead of lead-acid batteries, with a battery voltage reaching 16V, meeting the output requirements of the 15V range.

Detailed specification information of Zhirong Technology SW3526S.

The step-down protocol chip for the USB-C4 port also adopts the SW3526S from Zhirong Technology.

Close-up of the two step-down inductors of the secondary step-down circuit at ports USB-C3 and USB-C4.

The specifications of solid-state capacitors used for USB-C3 output filtering are also 35V100μF and 25V220μF.

The specifications of the two output filter solid-state capacitors at the USB-C4 port are also 35V100μF and 25V220μF.

The VBUS switch tube for the USB-C3 port output is also made of YG045N04ADE.

The VBUS switch tube for the USB-C4 port output also adopts YG045N04ADE.

Close-up of the four USB-C interface female sockets. The via welding is very firm.

The step-down protocol chips for the two USB-A ports also adopt the SW3566S from Zhirong Technology.

The two synchronous step-down switch tubes and the output VBUS switch tube that are matched are also made of YG045N04ADE.

Close-up of the matching step-down inductor.

The specification of the filter solid-state capacitor is 25V220μF.

Another one has a specification of 35V100μF.

A close-up of another output VBUS switch tube, of the same model.

Close-up of two USB-C interface female sockets, with through-hole welding on the countersunk plate.

Take a complete disassembly and a family photo.

Charging Head Network Disassembly summary

Finally, here is the core component list of the ANKER 130W six-port desktop Mini charger for your reference.

The ANKER 130W six-port desktop Charger Mini adopts a minimalist design style, which pairs well with its small and thin body. It is equipped with a 4C2A interface that supports 20W and 100W PD fast charging, meeting the simultaneous charging needs of various types of electronic devices such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones, headphones, and watches. It strikes a good balance among various demands such as dynamic appearance, flexible storage, multi-device charging, and full ecological coverage.

Through disassembly, the Charging Head Network learned that the ANKER desktop charger uses a Renesas iW3627-00+iW610-01C single-stage high-PF power supply solution inside, and is paired with the G2N70R150TA-H gallium nitride switch tube from GAI Future. The output uses two chips from Zhirong Technology, SW3566S and SW3526S, for secondary voltage reduction and control of the output of each interface. The PCBA module is filled with glue as a whole and equipped with heat sinks to enhance heat dissipation. The workmanship and materials are solid and reliable.

Source of the article: Charging Head Network