PM240 USB Power Delivery Tester PRO 240W for BC1.2 test

[Tomnguyen1]

Hi PassMark team,

I am looking for equipment that can test my PS controller to see if it is compliant with USB BC1.2 as a portable device.
Could you please confirm if PM240 can do that?

Thanks!
Tom

[David (PassMark)]

PS = Playstation ?

Playstation advertise adaptive charging on some of the newer controllers. I've also read the PS5 charging is "smarter" than the PS4. But I couldn't find the exact details.

On the playstation.net site I did find this information below. So it seems it is BC1.2.

Yes. Our PM240 USB Power Delivery Tester PRO unit could help in testing this.

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[Tomnguyen1]

Thanks for your feedback, David.

I want to clarify which tests PM240 can perform.
Can it perform BC 1.2 Compliance plan and release a checklist for a portable device (PD)?
Or can it only measure current for SDP, CDP, DCP?

Here is the detailed checklist:





PS: For your question, PS = Playstation? => yes.

[David (PassMark)]

The checklist didn't appear in your post.

The USB Battery Charging Specification Revision 1.2 (BC1.2) was introduced in 2010 (so 15 years ago).
It 's pretty simple. A voltage (or not) is applied to the data lines D+ and D- to indicate the type of USB port.

BD1.2 and SDP, CDP, DCP are not separate things.

This is basically what the BC standard says

Of course all of this has now been replaced with the newer USB-C Power Delivery standard.

Our PM240 USB PD testing device can act as a power sink or power source. On the source side it can be configured to support the following options. PD 3.0 (Fix, PPS), Battery Charging (BC1.2 DCP, SDP, CDP), QC4+ and proprietary chargers (Apple and Samsung)

[Tomnguyen1]

Let me repost BC1.2 checklist.
[Note: PD = Portable Device and not Power Delivery in this context]

[Tomnguyen1]

My case is that the certification lab uses Packet-Master USB-PET from MQP to test my controller.
I want to do the test by myself before sending my controller to that lab.
However, Packet-Master USB-PET from MQP is discontinued. Therefore, I am searching for an automation BC1.2 tool that can release a report with results for all items in the BC1.2 checklist.

Regarding current consumption for SDP, CDP, DCP, my controller meets the requirements, but it failed PD8 in the last try at the lab.

[David (PassMark)]

Our device is a configurable type-C power supply (and sink). In your case you are only interested in the the power supply features however.

You can setup the device to do SDP and DCP. It doesn't really do full CDP as that involves data transfer, which isn't a feature of a power supply (and the power supplied in the DCP and CDP cases are the same 1.5A). So from a power supply point of view CDP and DCP are the same thing.

A lot of your check list involves verifying what happens on the device under test (the PD device). So our device can't really do that for you. Some of the tests also seem to involve simulating a power supply that doesn't conform to the standards.

But it can definitely help with a several of the tests. e.g. correcting responding to a SDP or DCP setup and measuring the current draw.

We could go through your list in more detail and work out for each individual test what is possible and what isn't, but it is probably a consulting job, as it might take a day or two.

[Tomnguyen1]

Thanks for your feedback, David.
I will go back to PassMark in the future when I have any inquiries.