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if you've ever owned a cell phone that needs to be charged there's a good chance that you've owned a broken charging cable today we're going to be durability testing the stock iPhone cable that comes with every new iPhone 7 and a brand new cable that could very well be the most durable cable in the world from anchor at the end of this video we'll be giving away 2000 of these cables so stick around and thumbs up to anchor for giving away a bunch of free stuff let's get started so we're going to start with the iPhone cable and I've built this contraption that sits inside of this Smith machine right here and it has the cable plugged into the iphone the cable goes down tight around this pole right here this bar and then it's plugged into a power bank so we can see when the cable actually stops charging so how the Smith machine works is that the weights go on either side and these rails guide it up and down and so as I add weights to the end of the bar it's going to be adding weight to the cable and eventually it's going to stop working or tear out so both these cables are brand new we can already see a difference here on the head we can see two different materials and this is usually where the cable breaks here on the anchor cable it's one solid piece of rubber all the way down so that already gives it an advantage if we look at the USB end of the cable we kind of have the same thing two different materials this is kind of a rubber we'll find out how well they're joined together in this weight test and then here we have one solid piece of rubber all the way down now this is the weakest point of any cable and by putting a ton of weight straight down on this cable we're deliberately testing the weakest link let's start adding weight 10 pounds 20 pounds 30 pounds 30 pounds all right that's interesting so all it takes is 30 pounds of pressure and that cable rips right out of the bottom of your iphone here's what that other end looks like rip the wires right out from inside of it it's crazy now the black anchor cable is plugged in it's tied to the bar and it's got its power let's test this thing 10 20 30 now 30s where the iPhone broke so we'll go 35 still charging 40 all right right on 40 pounds looks like it ripped right at the bottom as well but it still held 10 pounds more weight than the original cable did and 10 pounds is a lot when you're talking about something as small as this so now we're going to check the tensile strength of the actual wire since the head is already ripped off so we got the wire knotted at the top and the bottom and now we're going to add weights to the end of the Smith machine so I added a 25 pound weight to the end of that machine and it ripped the cable completely in half let's hope the power line to dura will last a little bit longer than this did all right the power line to dura is knotted end that has been ripped off before with our last test we wrapped around the Machine we're good to go all right 25 pounds 6070 eighty so keep in mind of these tests aren't extremely scientific we don't know exactly how much that bar weighs on the smith machine but what we do know is that the anchor cable s at four times longer with the weight and the original iPhone cable did which is pretty impressive so now we have both of the cables torn completely apart let's take it back to my desk and get a close look at what the inside of these cables look like so if you watch the video closely you'll see that each of the cables broke along the knots that I tied so my knot was a factor in it breaking but since each cable was treated the same way it's still a pretty fair test between the two the power line tuturro outperform the stock iphone cable by quite a large margin the anchor lightening had handled 30% more weight and the cable itself held almost four times as much weight as the iPhone cable but let's be honest the average person won't be lifting weights with their cell phone charger bending is much more common with charging cables and that's where this rubberneck comes in handy Ankur said they tested it to 12,000 hard bins which means the last 12 times longer than a normal cable inside this cable is also super interesting if you look at the stock iPhone cable you'll see it has a super weak neck and that's why so many people complain about having to hold their cable in a certain spot to get their phone to charge with one hard Bend the little fragile wires tear loose from their connections inside the head the power line too doesn't have that problem now when I stripped down the power line to is immediately evident why this thing has a lifetime warranty look at all that metal it's like an industrial Chinese finger trap toy the middle helps hold the cable together and protect the internals if it accidentally gets kinked stepped on or slammed in a car door you know life happens another interesting thing is the internal gauging of the wire anchors cables are mi5 certified if you remember from my previous video on third-party Apple accessory standards Ankur does have that MiFi certification and can use Apple's port anchor just uses thicker wires more metal sheathing and has a better neck basically just beating Apple at their own game if a 3-foot length isn't your thing it also comes in one feet six feet and 10 feet and red black blue and white coloring it's too bad Apple hands out those weaksauce cables with every new iPhone 7 but lucky for us Ankur is giving away of these things I'll toss a link right below this video where you can participate in that hopefully you can get one of these cables that lasts forever instead of the stock ones that just last a year or two thumbs up to anchor for sponsoring this giveaway and if you don't have an iPhone I'm sure you know someone who does let them know what incres up to thanks for watching I'll see you around