Teardown： beats 60W USB-C Fast Charging Braided Cable A3393

Beats is a headphone brand under Apple. It features stylish and trendy designs. With support from Apple's technology and supply chain, Beats has achieved increasingly competitive product quality. Therefore, if you do not prefer Apple's relatively plain design style, Beats will be an excellent alternative.

ChargerLAB has recently obtained a USB-C to USB-C braided fast charging cable launched by Beats. It delivers the same performance and is priced identically to Apple's 60W fast charging cable. However, this Beats cable reaches 1.5 meters in length and comes in four color options: Lightning Black, Surge Grey, Speed Blue and Turbo Red. Let’s take a closer look at its specific design and workmanship.

Disassembly of the beats 60W braided data cable

Remove the shell of the data cable terminal.The inside of the terminal is fixed and protected by spot welding with a steel sleeve, and the tail is filled with sealing glue.Remove the steel sleeve; the interior is filled with hard sealing adhesive, and the wire cores are injection-molded as an integrated protective unit.Remove the hard sealing adhesive and apply glue on the small circuit board to strengthen the soldered pin joints.

Two small capacitors are mounted on the other side of the small circuit board.Close-up of the pins inside the USB-C male connector, with gold plating on the front end.Remove the terminal housing on the other end, where spot-welded protection with an identical steel sleeve is used inside.Open the steel sleeve, and the interior is also filled and protected with hard sealing glue.

The front side of the small circuit board at this end is also soldered with wire cores, and reinforced protection has been applied to both the wire cores and pins.Two small capacitors are mounted on the other side.Close-up of the pins inside the USB-C male connector, with gold plating.A view of the cross-section of the cut cable, with six colored wire cores inside.

Cut open the cable sheath. Inside, a shielding mesh is helically wrapped around the wire cores to resist interference.Besides 6 colored wire cores inside, there are 6 bare wire cores for negative power transmission. In addition, tensile yarns are added to improve the tensile performance of the cable.Cut a section of the wire to elaborate on each wire core.Close-up of three red positive power cores with Kevlar tensile fibers incorporated inside. The other three colored cores adopt the same design.

There are 6 bare wire cores for negative power transmission.Data cable for USB2.0 data transmission, with the green wire core being D+.Data cable for USB2.0 data transmission, the white wire is the D- core.Close-up of the blue CC wire core.

Overview of common tensile wires.Full Disassembly Overview

Disassembly Summary

This newly launched USB-C charging cable from Beats features USB 2.0 specification, with a cable length of approximately 1.5 meters and support for 60W charging power, capable of meeting the charging needs of laptops and mobile phones. As an earphone brand under Apple, Beats products are backed by Apple, so their quality is reliable. If you want a cable of the same standard but do not prefer Apple's white design style, this Beats cable is undoubtedly an excellent alternative.

Disassembly reveals that the connector of this data cable is fixed by injection molding, and the USB-C terminal is secured with a spot-welded steel sleeve to boost mechanical strength for better durability. The cable contains an internal shielding mesh and tensile threads, and Kevlar yarn is added inside the wire cores to enhance the overall strength of the cable. No E-Marker chip is used within the cable, so it only supports basic charging and USB 2.0 data transfer.